Israel lures recruiters
United Kingdom universities have turned their attention to Israel as a potential recruiting ground for overseas students. While Israeli universities' academic standards are equal to those in Europe...
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Right issue for FE
The appointment of Roger Ward to run the newly-formed Association of Colleges is likely to be good news for higher education. It has been quite clear recently that Government, opposition and the...
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Teachers ignored by academic recruiters
The response in last week's letters to the charge of low standards of teaching in United Kingdom universities misses the point that those in charge of recruitment discriminate against candidates who...
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Glen coup
Scotland's red deer are threatenedby a Japanese breed, Juliet Vickery reports. We have, as a nation, broadly welcomed Japanese investment in Britain but there is a growing feeling that one such...
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Lancaster to lose jobs
More jobs are to go at Lancaster University. Administrators have asked accountants Coopers & Lybrand to help draw up a three-and-a-half year recovery plan in the face of Pounds 5.8 million...
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Multiply and go grey
More pearls of wisdom from those streetwise pragmatists who publish the Iowa State University parents' handbook. Having warned parents that anything disconcerting will be blamed on "my room mate" and...
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Breeding ground for governors
As party conference season approaches, Alan Thomson and Huw Richards look at student politicians of past, present and future and examine the impact of mass education on politics In 1992, a fifth of...
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Students run riot on campus
Conflict between rival student groups at the University of Natal in South Africa has caused chaos, with running battles with each other and the police. The protests were sparked by unhappiness on the...
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Wrong answer for HE
One of the reasons why reform of student support arrangements has had so little priority in recent years can be found in The THES's interview with Education and Employment Secretary, Gillian Shephard...
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Why fallibilism is wrong for maths
Paul Ernest contrasts absolutism in mathematics with fallibilism and tries to convince us that the latter is acceptable (THES, September 6). Towards the end he denies any expectation of converting...
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Under an international microscope
In the first of an occasional series on academic lives, Chris Johnston asks postgraduate students from overseas what they think about studying in Britain. * JANE POTTER Jane Potter, 30, of California...
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Pounds 5.8 billion
Vice chancellors say the universities will be Pounds 5.8 billion in the red by 2005/06. They want to get the money from students - but it may not be that easy. Vice chancellors were warned this week...
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Chance lost to cash in on UK training
British businesses are boosting the number of employees receiving formal on-the-job and off-the-job training in a bid to close the skills gap with rival international companies, according to a...
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Future faces
(Photograph) - Former student politician Jeremy Browne (left) is a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrats and John Bercow is a PPC for the Conservatives. Jim Murphy has gone...
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Masters abroad cash cut
Malaysia has cut the cash available to its university teachers who want to register for a masters course at foreign universities, Geoff Scott writes. Many senior academics believe that removing the...