Rough ride for Serbian ruler
The war in the former Yugoslavia destroyed almost everything: human lives, families, friendships. Miladin Zivotic is one of the few people who still has friends throughout the area, regardless of...
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Why academics are feeling down Down Under
Australia's academics appear to be suffering from deep depression: they believe standards are slipping, there are too many universities with too many lower-quality students for too few staff,...
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Attention please, the elite demand
Germany's top ten research universities are calling for preferential funding for elite research and for public funds to be linked to research performance. They claim that not enough attention is...
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Seven are charged over bogus courses
SIX PEOPLE have been charged with conspiring to defraud a further education college after a two-year investigation into bogus courses, writes Harriet Swain. A seventh has been charged with forgery as...
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Brits pin hopes on Hubble fix
British scientists are this week waiting to see whether ambitious attempts to update the Hubble space telescope go according to plan, writes Julia Hinde. Seven astronauts blasted off from the Kennedy...
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Union chief dies at fees protest meeting
Fee increases estimated at more than 500 per cent have led to violent incidents at some Nigerian universities. The Federal University of Benin has been closed indefinitely and the students sent home...
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US snubs peace gift
Agboola Gambari, Nigeria's permanent representative at the United Nations in New York, has been thwarted in attempts to improve his country's image in American academic circles. Professor Gambari, a...
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The balance of quality and autonomy
THE APPOINTMENT of Christopher Kenyon as chairman of the new quality agency marks another important step towards a single set of external quality assurance arrangements for United Kingdom higher...
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Uncle Glenn needs you
The European launch of Knowledge TV (Multimedia, page 28) is a pre-emptive strike. American cable entrepreneur Glenn Jones wants to seize the educational niche in local cable companies' offerings...
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Why a glut is good
Political parties are conspiring to keep higher education off the election agenda. Last week disaffected backbencher and former higher education minister, George Walden, did his best to stir things...
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A stitch in time
Pull yourselves together, Catherine Cadman tells her colleagues in nursing education, and swallow some home truths before the universities swallow you Incorporating nurse education into higher...
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Surfers paradise
(Photograph) - Equipped with 500 computers including new machines from Opus Technology and Apple Computer, South Bank University's learning resource centre has proved so popular that managers now...
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Pay scales lack justice
ALTHOUGH the protracted pay struggle seems to be drawing to a close for another year one significant and longstanding anomaly has still not been resolved. The THES table of pay scales in the old and...
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Pay scales lack justice
THE RECENTLY negotiated national pay settlement between the universities and the Association of University Teachers contained an unambiguous agreement by both sides that "a fully funded independent...
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Political diagnosis gone awry
IT WAS disappointing to see how many of Paul Preston's judgements in his review of Europe: A History (THES, January 31) were based on misguided political pigeon-holing. Any sound commentator should...