Quality franchise in Turkey
It is unfortunate that Dorian Jones's article (THES, January 5) about our partnership in Turkey confuses Oxford Brookes's Turkish partners, Dogus Private Schools, with a "business conglomerate" and "...
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Tuning in to drop-outs
There can be no better time than One Nation Tory Week to note the continuing relevance of Disraeli's even better-remembered coinage - the contention that there are three types of lies: "lies, damned...
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Double jeopardy
This week's science budget allocations show that nearly three years after the White Paper, Realising our Potential, we are still a long way away from a coordinated approach to paying for science: and...
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Slovakians watch their language
University lectures, concert halls and the opera stage, are virtually the only place the Czech language will be permitted in public under a Slovakian new state law. The language law came into force...
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Top French lab feels the squeeze
The New Year has brought fresh rumours of a radical shake-up at France's biggest public research organisation, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. According to CNRS management, the...
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Teaching assistants unite over strike
Graduate students who work as teachers, graders, tutors and researchers have been on strike at Yale University in a dispute closely watched by other private universities and colleges in the United...
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Australian turmoil looms
Australia's universities could be thrown into turmoil as they begin enrolling students for the 1996 academic year next month, after higher education unions failed to achieve a significant pay...
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Unwrap the verbal cotton wool
You cannot say anything these days. In November last year the University of Sussex student union dropped its long-standing policy defending the absolute right to free speech. A week earlier the Queen...
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The Czech generation game
Prague School of Economics students Petr Polak and Jakub Mikulasek face a future which, like that of many of their classmates, seems brilliant. A western company has just offered them a job. They...
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Spanish regions complete takeover
The final five Spanish regions have taken over financial and political responsibility for universities from central government. Effective from the end of 1995, the move completed a process of...
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York picks up record private donation
Days after the Ontario provincial government announced deep cuts to higher education in their province, Toronto's York University president Susan Mann accepted and welcomed the largest private...
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US keeps eye on the race
Taking race into account in college admissions - in the name of helping disadvantaged minorities - was turned into one of 1995's biggest political issues in higher education by conservatives who...
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Fastest Hamlet in the West
Those aiming to break the record for the fastest recitation of Hamlet's most famous soliloquy should be warned: human judges have been replaced by more probing computerised ones. The speech of the...
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Medieval Hansard awaited
The spotlight is to shine again on life in medieval England with the first translation of the original parliamentary Hansard. The Leverhulme Trust has awarded more than Pounds 306,000, one of its...
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Police flout informer rulebook
The police regularly break Home Office rules governing their dealings with informants and in so doing often engage in questionable practices, according to researchers at Hull University. The...