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University of Hertfordshire DSc: Brian Corby, retiring chancellor, former chief executive of the Prudential Assurance Company and the first chairman of the Association of British Insurers, president...
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Bomb blasts Islam off course
Attempts to set up a new Islamic studies course in Strasbourg are apparently being hampered by a fresh wave of anxiety about Islamic fundamentalism triggered by the recent bomb attack on the Paris...
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Lawyers square up for battle over practice
law students and lawyers are embroiled in a bitter dispute over what enables someone to practise law in Spain. At the moment, anyone who has completed a first degree in law can set up a practice and...
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Pretoria seeks greater control
Most South African universities have welcomed proposals for reform but some fear government interference. Karen Mac Gregor reports from Durban. The South African government is to secure far firmer...
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US colleges face huge bills
UNITED STATES universities and colleges face a massive $26 billion r bill to wipe out their backlog of building repairs and maintenance, a report has found. The cost, $5.7 billion of which represent...
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Non-expulsion hard to stomach
A student at the Ontario College of Art and Design who deliberately vomited on two museum paintings because he found them to be "stale, lifeless crusts" will not face expulsion or suspension from his...
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All Brothers together in Bethlehem city
SMOKE rises up into the air heavy with chattering voices and clattering trays. Denim-clad students sit at nicotine-stained plastic tables spilling over with books and files. A typical lunch-time...
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MIT and MUST in joint thrust
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has agreed to form a partnership with the Malaysia University of Science and Technology, the country's proposed new private university, when it opens its...
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Academics win 18 per cent rise
Academics at four Australian universities have won pay rises of up to 18 per cent and most of the other 32 public tertiary institutions are expected to reach salary agreements with the higher...
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A loan source of university income
Adequate public funding of higher education is not possible for a mass system. The only way British universities will get more resources is from the private sector. What is needed is a loan system...
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Open, improving and accountable
Britain's university research assessments provide a once-in-four-years snapshot of its academic research endeavour, a picture open for the world to see. The 1996 results show both the level of...
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True minds should admit to marriage
Theatres and universities should stop flirting and take the plunge. Paul Allen sees no impediments to union. Like Beatrice and Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing, theatres and universities have eyed...
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Publish and be crammed
Hugh Willmott believes that under the guise of improving efficiency the research assessment exercise has produced a Kafkaesque nonsense of product degradation. "Well, I've already got my four (...
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Irks at Birkbeck
Contrary to what was stated in your story "Science fears for Birkbeck" (THES, December 13), compulsory redundancy notices were not, and have not been, issued to four members of staff. Birkbeck's...
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Irks at Birkbeck
Mat Gilman and Sally Whitaker's defence of Birkbeck's performance on University Challenge (THES, December 13) is an attempt to shift the blame from where it really lies, with Gilman himself, as...