Militant in health cash plea
Denis Goldberg, former sabotage commander of the African National Congress, now director of a charity aiding reconstruction and development in South Africa, is courteous, genial and persuasive. "Even...
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New FEFC chief
A former higher education assessment director is to become the new chief inspector of the Further Education Funding Council. Jim Donaldson, chief inspector of schools at the Scottish Office with...
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Here beginneth the first lesson...
What does a theologian do when two eminent scientists dismiss his faith as a symptom of psychological insecurity? Pray for their souls or take issue with their reasoning? Here Keith Ward opts for the...
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A journey to the PhD hierarchy
Alan Thomson's review of the Council for Graduate Education's report, The Award of the Degree of PhD on the Basis of Published Work in the UK, (THES, September ) was accurate on the danger to the...
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Time flies when you're trying to reform
Western European, particularly British, university involvement in the transition process in eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union has been one of the minor success stories in an...
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Kicking up the dust in a chaotic storehouse
Researchers are collaborating to bring order to the chaos of the Web. People find things on the network in different ways. The popular search engines - Alta Vista, Lycos, and so on - are heavily used...
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California plans super-institution
California will not participate in the Western Governors' University planned by a consortium of states. It will develop plans for a super-institution using the Internet and other emerging...
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Competence fatigue
Competence, like motherhood, is hard to be against. Of course people should be competent to carry out the job they hold. A cook must be able to cook, a professor of Greek to read Greek. So far so...
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Minister wages war on mega-campuses
The coming year should see radical changes for Italy's state university system. Luigi Berlinguer, minister for schools, universities and scientific research since April, has warned that the system is...
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Italian job
Among the most reliable of running stories with which the "fings ain't wot they used to be" section of the national press is wont to regale us on slow news days is the proposition - probably first...
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Subscript for a free and easy system
JISC will extend and embrace new models of funding and delivery in its strategies towards the year 2000. The Joint Information Systems Committee's new five-year strategy recognises the importance of...
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Research probes IT value for Dearing
The alleged benefits of information technology in higher education are to be dissected and examined with sophisticated techniques imported from the United States. Researchers at three universities...
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Hole truths
John Davies reports on the problems archaeologists face in Jerusalem. The odd thing is it's sometimes called an archaeological tunnel in the press. But the tunnelling work has always been in the...
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Budgets win prizes
Just what do we want to get for the billions the Government spends on research. The increased concentration of research funding in a few universities, highlighted by the imminent increase in research...