Auditions for TV lecturers
I was amused to read about the trials and tribulations of giving the Royal Institution Christmas lectures (THES, December 29). I was surprised, however, to read that the lecturers are "chosen by BBC...
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Bring on the procedure police
The Nolan committee on standards in public life has now turned to higher and further education, but we have been told that Lord Nolan believes that no more external regulation of either sector is...
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Net closes on rights
Copyright has survived the tape recorder and the photocopier. How it will emerge from its tangle with the computer, the Internet and the burgeoning digital media industry is still an open question....
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Cards stacked against tarot
In a country where people queue up to pay the "tax on stupidity", formally called the National Lottery, the education system has a special duty to think hard about how it copes with irrational...
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Mediterranean link-up sought
Academics from around the Mediterranean have been investigating how to build closer relations between European universities and their neighbours to the South and East. The Civil Forum, which was held...
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Cash crisis threat to universities
University chancellors have failed to convince the Greek government of the seriousness of the problems facing higher education. To make matters worse the government has once more reneged on its...
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Single-sex college gains support
A court challenge by the Clinton administration to the all-male Virginia Military Institute threatens the very existence of single-sex colleges in the United States, its opponents say. And the...
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Multi-nation campus for Venice
An ambitious plan to create a multinational university campus on an island in the Venice lagoon is about to become a reality. Five universities - two Venetian, one Spanish, one German and one...
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Charity probe shakes research
France's biggest public research body, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, has been shaken by revelations of malpractice by the country's cancer charity ARC. The scandal is expected to...
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Talks leave colleges in cold
While finance ministers from Canada's ten provinces met last month with the federal government to discuss how to divide up ever-diminishing federal funds, universities and other post-secondary...
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Nurses from Oz brought to book
Student nurses at university in Queensland will be required to study great works of literature to expose them to emotions they will confront when they go into clinics or hospitals. Novels such as...
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Innovation science gets cash injection
Australian higher education will be one of the major beneficiaries of a federal government scheme to boost national innovation developments. Under plans announced by Australian prime minister Paul...
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Courses count drop-outs down under
Four in every ten students in Australia are significantly less successful in their first year at university than they were in their final year at school and up to half drop out of some courses. The...
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Research fears unfounded
Olga Wojtas reports from the ever-expanding world of geographers at the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers annual conference in Strathclyde. Research councils are keen to...
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Sign of the times
(Photograph) - Sign of the times: Strathclyde University research student Neil McInroy has been investigating the impact of urban change on local communities. Although local people feel that streets...