Bilingual degrees on offer
Hamburg. GERMAN universities are to establish bilingual degree courses in a bid to make their higher education system more attractive to foreign students. The education ministry will invest DM30...
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States update pacts on degrees
MORE THAN 50 countries are expected to back a new convention on the recognition of higher education qualifications at a diplomatic conference in Lisbon in April. The Council of Europe and Unesco are...
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Malaysia relaxes rules on university entry
THE RURAL poor in Malaysia are expected to be the main beneficiaries of the relaxation of entry requirements to local universities. About 40 per cent of school leavers could go to university...
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Backlash to race attack
Melbourne. MALAYSIA's warning that it might recall more than 11,000 of its students studying in Australia if their safety was threatened by racist behaviour has sparked alarm among Australia's vice...
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System is broke but not broken
So ends 1996. Four years of hard work yielded a welcome Christmas present for many in terms of improved research assessments. Months of campaigning and lobbying produced a little more cash for...
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Penalised for making it
AFTER the emotional responses to the research assessment exercise results last week, attention shifts to the financial implications. The quality research funding formula is not yet known. It is...
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The flaws in the RAE
COMMENTING on the results of the research assessment exercise (THES, December 20), you remark that: "...the disappointed will naturally seek flaws". Indeed. But what is to be done when the flaws are...
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Quality streetwise
I AM surprised to read that some research councils are unconvinced of the need for the Higher Education Quality Council guidelines on research (THES, December 13). I would have imagined that they...
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Wellcome's fellow
IN CARRYING a withering review of my book, AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary Science (THES, November 15), I think it would have been fairer if you had stated that the reviewer, Jon Turney, is...
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Monastic fantasy
BEFORE waxing lyrical about universities providing an "essential haven or home for cultural workers" (THES, December 6), Valentine Cunningham should consider the growing number of redundant academics...
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Jung's seminal influence
I FIND Richard Noll's refutation of C. G. Jung's theory of the collective unconscious (THES, November 22) flimsy and unconvicing. I argue that whether or not Jung "lied about his evidence" and...
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Jung's seminal influence
DID Richard Noll have to be so heavy handed in his attack on my defence of Jung's theory of archetypes (THES, December 13)? Yes. Because if he is to succeed in his ambition to destroy Jung's...
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Look back in hardbacks
January: The American Historical Association convention in Atlanta starts the year off right. "Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History?" and Other Questions is displayed and my editor, Michael Flamini,...
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Calling Dearing II, Dearing II come in
Now the national curriculum is firmly established in schools, the inevitable mutterings about the standardisation of the curriculum in higher education are starting. The Secretary of State may have...
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Fooled in paradise
Margaret Mead's anthropological work was the cornerstone upon which much of the edifice of social conditioning was built. The problem is, argues Derek Freeman, it was built on a lie and it is time...