Younger heads will roll
The Scottish tertiary sector looks likely to have to make many more compulsory redundancies than it has to date, writes Scottish editor Olga Wojtas. Although the sector has suffered only one...
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Warning from Dearing
Universities and colleges must grapple with difficult questions over degree standards and the future of the honours degree classification system, Sir Ron Dearing has warned. They must be clearer...
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Ex-polys challenge standards
The popular notion that "old" universities tend to out-perform the "new" in the quality of their courses was challenged this week with the publication of eight funding council assessment overview...
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Oxbridge upstaged in US list
An American-based institute has devised a new way of assessing the research strengths of United Kingdom universities which upstages Oxbridge. The Institute of Scientific Information, a body which...
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Designers must get back to basics, says RSA
Basic skills in drawing, presentation and research among design students are deteriorating because of the rapid expansion in higher education, according to the Royal Society of Arts. The RSA says...
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Clinical chats in line of GPs' fire
Nearly a third of GP practices offer patients counselling, but how effective is it? COUNSELLORS using "talk therapy" in clinics are giving their profession a bad name and should concentrate on more...
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Stroke victims swallow again
Tens of thousands of people who lose the ability to swallow after a stroke could soon be eating and drinking freely again thanks to a medical breakthrough at Manchester University. Researchers at...
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Unions cast doubt on French reforms
FRENCH student and academic union leaders are trying to agree a common stand on their involvement in four government working parties set up to introduce university reform. The four committees, on...
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Einstein's ties with Hebrew centre
A UNIQUE selection of Albert Einstein's "scientific and non-scientific personal papers" has been on display at the Hebrew University's National Library in Israel before being auctioned at Christie's...
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Historic rebuff for researchers
THE future of a unique British centre for historical research in Germany is in doubt following a shock decision to close the internationally renowned Max Planck Institute for History at Gottingen,...
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Rectors talk tough on who pays for expansion
GREEK rectors have warned that unless the government finds more money for higher education they will recommend closing universities for the second time in a year. Last March rectors shut colleges but...
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President gets tough on draft
Latvian president Guntis Ulmanis has refused to sign the controversial national service law that sparked huge student protests last April because it does not go far enough. But the decision is no...
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Minority fights language ban
STUDENTS in the predominantly Albanian-inhabited town of Tetova in western Macedonia are continuing to defy the state by attending the illegal Albanian-language university. The government in Skopje...
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Stuart first
IT WAS interesting to watch Vernon Bogdanor define the trap into which he feels Roy Strong has fallen and then tumble in himself (THES, November 29). Surely a Stuart taking over from a Tudor in 1603...
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Law lecturer feeds Serbian pride
The war is not over for some people in the Balkans. Politicians have signed the Dayton agreement and soldiers put their guns away, but some university professors are still fighting the academic...