Bath sets up GNVQ file
Bath University is setting up a national database at a cost of Pounds 300,000 for tracking the progress of vocational A-level students in higher education. More than 6,000 students completing the...
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Early birds catch sun holidays
Not booked your summer holiday yet? Better get on with it, according to tourism expert Allan Beaver from Surrey University. Mr Beaver says his research shows cheap last-minute packages will be rare...
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Dreamtime's place in history
Australian historians writing since the 1960s have helped create the climate in which a landmark judgment on aboriginal land rights became possible, says an academic expert in the field. Bain Attwood...
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Prison link to increase in crime
Expanding our prison population may increase the level of violent crime on our streets. Research by Monika Platek, assistant professor of law at Warsaw University, suggests that the Government's...
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Votes for women equalled votes against drink
Leading members of the temperance movement believed that the emancipation of women would bring about prohibition in Britain. Research from the University of Manchester suggests an unusual link...
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Sex attacks fuel student drop-outs
Sexual violence and other related forms of harassment against female students in universities in sub-Saharan Africa are a major obstacle to the advancement of women's higher education in the sub-...
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Radical reforms in firing line
Jairam Reddy, the mild mannered chair of South Africa's National Commission on Higher Education, flinched as he took flak from a vice chancellor and a student during a national television debate on...
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Kenyan lecturers face axe after rolls fall
Kenya's state universities could scale down departments and declare lecturers redundant, following falling student enrolments. Philosophy, religious studies, geography, history and sociology are...
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Apathy rules Japan youth
At the beginning of Japan's academic year in April new students at the country's 500 or so universities have to endure a week-long campaign to persuade them to join campus clubs and societies. Most...
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Top pay revelations fail to shake Canadian students
Ontario is the most recent province to make public its highest university salaries. Public institutions were given until March 31 to disclose the salaries and taxable benefits of employees earning...
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Elite scramble for research cash
Vice chancellors have begun warring with each other over moves to create an elite group of research-based institutions. The so-called Group of Eight is accused of trying to insulate member...
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Malay move to educate at home
Malaysia has promised students who study in local universities priority in the queue for scholarships and study loans. The move will hit intakes in Britain and other countries which enrol large...
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Tenure row hits union leader poll
The biggest academic union in the United States is moving towards acceptance of reviews of tenure, under attack in nearly half of the country's 50 states. The 45,000-member American Association of...
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Beirut treasure risks ruin
Lebanon's bitter civil war stirred up more than hatred. It stirred up the poorly planned streets and buildings of modern Beirut and uncovered an archaeological treasure trove throughout the country....
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Watery spirit of Caligula lives on
A group of Italian academics and enthusiasts are planning to reconstruct a 230-foot ship from the 1st century ad reign of the Roman emperor, Caligula. It will be the largest ancient ship to be...