A race against disaster
Brenda Gourlay on a 'vision of fundamental transformation for South Africa', spearheaded by the education service. The largest social upliftment exercise ever in South Africa is under way. Entitled...
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Healthy handover
Karen Mac Gregor witnesses the dawn of provincial cooperation. Around 80 people crowded into the community hall at Sonop, a small town in the sparsely populated North West province of South Africa. A...
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Between three worlds
Can South Africa afford five Afrikaans universities, asks Willie Esterhuyse. Michael is a black student from a rural area in the Transkei. During the holidays he ploughs with oxen and herds his...
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Higher profile
From next week The THES will be available to users with access to FT Profile, the leading online text retrieval system, available in most academic libraries and on the Internet. It will provide full...
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Return of the natives
One year on from South Africa's first free elections The THES analyses the current state of higher education. A well-qualified foreigner recently accep-ted a chair at a South African university....
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The Women Returners Network has undertaken research for the EU on "Professional Women's Re-entry into the Labour Market: Implications for Training and Employment in Europe" and needs information on...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL R. G. Chambers has been awarded an honorary fellowship of the university, acknowledging his long service and ingenious practical experiments proving important theories in the...
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Events
WINDOWS ON SPACE The University of Leicester will be exhibiting work by Joyce Markie based on astronomical images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The exhibition "Windows on Space" will be held...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL D. C. Wraith, senior research fellow at the University of Cambridge, to the chair in pathological sciences; R. J. Smith, lecturer in econometrics at the University of Cambridge...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Paul Brown, welfare rights officer in Angus, has become national co-ordinator for students with special needs. The post is funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council...
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Final Word...
This week's Final Word comes from an author whose family originally came from Holland: "How far I am away from the true temper of soul, this letter in its changing, uncertain moods, its scorn and...
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Speaking Volumes: Parliamentary Socialism
Frank Webster on Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism . Now that there is an almost palpable enthusiasm around in intellectual circles for Tony Blair's new look, even electable, Labour Party, it...
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Post-results entry hitch
Vice chancellors have put the brakes on plans for a post-qualifications admissions system that could have been in place by 1997. The steering group charged by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Oxford simply after the best
Oxford is scrapping its fourth-term entrance exam. Applicants will now go through the same proceedure as all other students though tests may still be set at interview. The decision was not taken to...
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Irish government to fund students studying in EU
Irish students studying in Britain and other EU countries are to get maintenance grants from the Irish government. This was announced last week in the budget which also confirmed the government's...