Japan's missing 10,000 students
JAPAN is anxious that it is off-target in its plans to recruit 100,000 foreigners to study at colleges, universities and graduate schools by the year 2000. Overseas student numbers rose fivefold from...
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Doctors take a lesson in caring
STUDENTS at a top medical school in the United States are having to master more than basic science and anatomy. To graduate, they now will have to prove they have compassion. Brown University has...
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Assas turns its back on right
Right-wing unions have taken a beating in elections at the Paris bastion of far-right student politics, the Assas Paris II University. The extreme right-wing student list, Union-Droit, which...
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Belgrade rector replaced
The rector of Belgrade University has resigned. His resignation was one of the main demands of the Student Protest 96/97 movement, which for more than 100 days had kept up street demonstrations and...
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Reforms to squeeze Italy's rolls
Italy's university minister, Luigi Berlinguer, has launched a series of radical reforms to reverse decades of chronic overcrowding and to reduce the 70 per cent of students who fail to complete their...
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High-tech chance to heal rifts
In the pre-election phoney war, pressure groups are queuing to seek hostages to fortune from the opposition parties. And the future of Commonwealth students in the United Kingdom is one of those...
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Jamboree has had its day
It's Red Nose Day! It is also the day Ian Taylor, minister for science and technology, launches the National Week of Science, Engineering and Technology. These two festivals have much in common. They...
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Pay system should build on UCEA
Who gains what from having a national system for settling academic pay, and who stands to gain from a possible breakup of the present arrangements? These questions arise from the debate on the future...
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Cradle of legislation
Amid speculation that human cloning may be only two years away, Ruth Deech considers whether further research should be banned. Britain leads the world in regulating in-vitro fertilisation treatment...
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Cloak and dagger tactics no good to Ulster
Higher education planning for Northern Ireland is on 'a confidential basis'. This is bad for students and a threat to university autonomy, argues Norman Gibson. "The future of higher education is a...
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Health on frontline
THERE may be another explanation for the disappointing quality of university-based health service research reported in "Clinical ratings queried" (THES, March 7). If community-based clinical subjects...
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Health on frontline
AS THE the slightly scorched author of a first-time submission to the research assessment exercise in a new and developing applied research area, I have followed the post mortem with interest. There...
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CVCP has pay choice
LAST week's front-page headline "CVCP axe over pay bargainers" was somewhat stronger than the story underneath (THES, March 7). Whatever the outcome of the Universities and Colleges Employers...
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Mistaken ambitions
You suggest that the Higher Education Fund-ing Council for England (Editorial, THES, March 7) has an ambition to control the spending on research conducted in higher education institutions. I can...
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Mistaken ambitions
Your editorial said: "Civil servants do not deliver lectures, carry out research, write books and papers or win Nobel prizes. The people who do are entitled to insist on being properly valued and...