Running with an open mind
A vigorous debate has started around questions of university governance and accountability. The debate is particularly sharp in the new universities and colleges, where the 1992 Further and Higher...
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Degrees of simplicity
From the beginning of January Australia's three education sectors -- higher education, technical and further education, and schools -- have been connected through a new unified qualifications system...
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Graduate grouses
Is the latest finding from the Association of Graduate Recruiters -- which shows that while the pool of graduates has grown, a fifth of leading employers report a shortfall in graduate recruitment...
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Fraternity hazing rituals come to court
Violent initiation rites at United States universities and colleges, in which students are required to undergo beatings, punchings, branding and alcohol abuse before they are able to join...
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Putting the bite on Africa
Karen Mac Gregor meets the dentist who is chair of South Africa's first National Education Commission Jairam Reddy trod the political tightrope that has become the lot of vice chancellors at...
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Ministry derails train buff's job
Denmark's ministry of education has reprimanded the University of Odense for abolishing a professorship that had been given to an "undesired" candidate. Odense's conduct, in first advertising the...
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Tomorrow's man downgrades graduates
Juergen Ruettgers, Germany's new "minister for tomorrow", has warned that graduates will have to expect lower salaries in future and accept jobs that will not necessarily match their qualifications....
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Cheques and balances
Peter Knight looks at the winners and losers in university teaching Which university wins and which loses when it comes to funding teaching? Or is the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Geography looks for its place on the map
Huw Richards takes new directions from a conference in Northumbria John Osborne may have died just before the turn of the year, but the most famous invention attributed to him appeared to be out in...
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Michael proves he can do
Last summer Michael Little was a conventional sixth-former, sitting his A levels. This winter, he is an unconventional undergraduate, reading for an external London University management degree while...
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Plight of the forgotten prisoners
When Roger Matthews visited a Spanish prison and found that 70 per cent of the inhabitants were HIV positive, and that the seven British prisoners incarcerated there were unsure of their rights,...
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Wagner'swish for 'inner life'
Leeds Metropolitan University vice chancellor Leslie Wagner says elitism is the major cause of the "tensions and dysfunctions" afflicting higher education. Delivering his inaugural lecture yesterday...
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Hygiene dean joins World Bank
Richard Feachem, dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is moving in April to a newly created senior post with the World Bank, over-seeing its health sector work. Professor...
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Oxford medical department Pounds 400,000 in red
Oxford University's department of medicine has a Pounds 400,000 deficit despite attracting outside research grants worth more than Pounds 10 million, ministers heard last week. The debt means that...
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Literal lament
Sideswipe no 99, spotted by Guy Judge of the department of economics at Portsmouth University, comes from Louis de Berni res' Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994): "Philosophers who have only one idea...