Light fantastic for theatre design
MINIATURE models of set designs have long injected a dose of practicality into theatre directors' artistic vision. Now a student at the University of Central England is doing the same for lighting....
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Ena blamed for France's ills
The French elections have triggered the customary campaign-time offensive against the most elite of France's elite grandes ecoles, the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Ena). For its critics and much...
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German industry in new fees push
Undaunted by the government's and rectors' hostility to tuition fees, German industry has again come up with a proposal that students pay for higher education. Governments at state and federal level...
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Cash-back bond plan after third shutdown
A third private college in three years has closed in Dublin, putting pressure on the remaining colleges to introduce a bonding arrangement to ensure students get their fees back if more close. The...
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Pundit Paul unravels Italy's politics
A former Cambridge reader in European politics has become Italy's most sought-after pundit on the country's complex political, economic and social problems. Paul Ginsborg arrived in Italy in 1992 to...
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Change comes hard in Chile
A REVISED package of measures aimed at modernising Chile's 16 state universities is finally scheduled to be passed in the next few weeks. The State Universities Framework Law supersedes the original...
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Mexico shows big is not always better
A NEW research centre in Mexico City has been asked to investigate the relationship between students' study habits and their exam results. In a country where libraries are inadequate, books are...
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Sell-off sparks fury
ACADEMICS and students in Brazil have united to block the planned sell-off of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the world's largest mining company. Brokers Merrill Lynch had drawn up the sell-off tender...
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For collegiality, call Mr Fixit
WHEN Concordia professor Valery Fabrikant was convicted of killing four colleagues in 1992 the university called in an outside expert to review its administration. Harry Arthurs delivered a harsh...
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Learning bank for Oz Labor
AS BRITAIN'S New Labour government begins to put its education policies in practice, a defeated Labor Party in Australia is preparing a dramatic overhaul of its previous attitudes to how universities...
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55-day strike finally ends
YORK University students were hurriedly sent back to finish their last week of classes less than 24 hours after their professors voted to end the longest strike in Canadian university history, writes...
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CATS needs cradling - by academics
THE EDITOR of The THES has wisely identified credit accumulation and transfer (CATS) as one of the keys to the future development of higher education, and one with profound implications. It has been...
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Changing picture entraps unions
This is union meeting season, the Association of University Teachers' council last week, Natfhe starting tomorrow and Unison next week. Futher and higher education unions are in a difficult bind....
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No charity in paying full costs
UNIVERSITIES will look with some unease at this week's report on the infrastructure for academic research (page three), produced by a forum including major research funders in the public, private and...
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Is there really a problem of graduate 'over-education'?
Peter Dolton and Anna Vignoles challenge the notion that Britain has too many students. The higher education sector in the United Kingdom has experienced virtually continuous growth in student...