Sub-Sahara swings
ANALYSIS of the fossilised shells of minute lake-dwelling creatures may at least partially clear mankind of causing drought through global warming, according to new evidence from Kingston University...
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Full-frontal assault on storms
WHILE most of Britain was huddled under brollies over the past few weeks, 100 meteorologists from ten countries were relishing the stormy weather. The meteorologists, based for the past two months at...
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Whither weather?
The wettest February has followed the driest January. THES reporters look at the changing climate. THE storms that claimed the lives of seven people in one night were severe by any reckoning. But...
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Poor-paid staff join brain drain
STATE universities in Kenya have finally accepted that low salaries and poor conditions of service have led to a serious brain drain over the past ten years. Presenting their views to a government...
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Sop for student aid
South Africa is prepared to inject more money into its national student financial aid scheme this year to maintain black student numbers in higher education and avert threatened campus protests....
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Adelphi chief packs his bags
A POWER struggle at Adelphi University in the United States has ended with the summary firing of Peter Diamandopoulos, accused of exploiting the presidency of a modest-sized private college to fund a...
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Colleges rely on cheap labour
PART-TIME teachers now account for more than half of all university and college staff in the United States. Their presence helps institutions cut costs but has angered students and unions. There are...
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Open road to Hong Kong
THE NUMBER of universities in Hong Kong will have risen from two to seven in just ten years with the recent upgrading of the Open Learning Institute. A government spokesman said that the awarding of...
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Australia's war on sex bias
The Australian government has attacked universities for failing to swell the ranks of women in executive positions. Federal education minister Amanda Vanstone said that although women made up 46 per...
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Cash offer to keep professors at work
FERENC Takacs moonlights from his teaching job in the school of English and American studies at Budapest's ELTE University in the most literal sense. Most weeks the expert in Irish literature treads...
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Axed entry exams raise a storm
Greek education secretary Gera-simos Arsenis has announced that the Panhellenic examinations for university entrance are to be abolished with open entry from the year 2000. But he has not said where...
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Serbian blames Uncle Sam
VOJISLAV Seselj, once a dissident academic and now leader of the extreme-nationalist Serbian Radical Party, has accused the United States of financing the Student Protest 96/97 movement. The leaders...
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Emerald tiger seeks help
The Irish government is to invite tenders from colleges in the rest of the European Union to help meet emerging skill shortages in computing and languages. It fears that Irish universities and other...
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Take the purse but cut the strings
Just what is a university? One school of thought says that it is, in the vocabulary of the European Court, an "emanation of the state," largely paid for by the government, having a licence to trade...
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Should codes of ethics go on the map?
Should learned societies and professional bodies have codes of ethics? Some argue that all such societies need to identify a common code of ethical behaviour that marks them out as distinct and gives...