Rectors talk tough on who pays for expansion
GREEK rectors have warned that unless the government finds more money for higher education they will recommend closing universities for the second time in a year. Last March rectors shut colleges but...
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Oxbridge upstaged in US list
An American-based institute has devised a new way of assessing the research strengths of United Kingdom universities which upstages Oxbridge. The Institute of Scientific Information, a body which...
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Younger heads will roll
The Scottish tertiary sector looks likely to have to make many more compulsory redundancies than it has to date, writes Scottish editor Olga Wojtas. Although the sector has suffered only one...
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Stand by your texts
As Valentine Cunningham stands shivering in the harsh winds blowing through academia, what exactly fires his resolve to stick to his calling? When thousands of higher education teachers take to the...
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Please disrupt our conference
The disruption of a conference on East Timor by an organised mob in Kuala Lumpur last month may have done the troubled country a favour. Peter Carey reports. Fifteen years ago, when I first became...
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Paymaster calls the wrong pension tune
IT WAS once said of Sir Keith Joseph that he not only had the capacity to shoot himself in the foot but, worse still, he could hit his left foot while aiming for his right one. The ghost of Sir Keith...
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All quiet on Serbian front pages
BELGRADE media loyal to the Serbian government ignored the largest demonstrations in the country's recent history last week. While most students were actively supporting the the protests, state-owned...
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The biggest book move in history
(Photograph) - On the move: Workmen help carry out the biggest book move in history, as 12 million books and manuscripts begin their migration from Bloomsbury to the shelves of the new Pounds 511...
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Esteve-Coll is to retire
Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll (pictured right) is to take early retirement from her post as vice chancellor of University of East Anglia after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She arrived in...
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Experience counts
Not just a historian, but the heaven-sent (by way of Texas) dream of the lonely octogenarian. Young Cambridge historian Bryan Rigg, whose research on German Jews found an original and effective...
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A call to Arms
Whether or not ethnicity predisposes you to certain types of career, names might. Jane Arms certainly has a surname that seems to fit her. She returns to Australia this month, after four years at LSE...
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Evans above!
Wales may no longer export coal and steel, but the new Political Studies Association's Directory of Staff suggests that the trade in academic political scientists is still going pretty well. It is...
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Union threats unlikely to work
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up at v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Dundee downer
Dundee University's senate was this week set to consider a proposal to axe undergraduate teaching in education. Students have already protested at plans to withdraw the department of educational...