Success key to trainee cash
Cash for colleges and other providers of youth training could soon be largely dependent on the success of the trainee, writes David Charter. Training and Enterprise Councils are being asked by the...
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Call for animal rights reps
The warring sides in the animal testing debate have come together for the first time to produce a report on how to overcome their impasse. They have proposed that every research institution should...
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Science parks get virtual
The heyday of the traditional science park could be over if the idea of the "virtual" science park catches on, according to Ian Dalton, director of Heriot-Watt University's research park. Throughout...
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Poor benefit in Chinese reforms of tuition fees
Chinese education authorities have mapped out measures to help poor university and college students while promoting a unified tuition fee policy, Geoffrey Parkins writes. Zhang Tianbao, deputy...
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Malaysian call for a voice
Academics from Malaysia's eight universities are complaining they have been kept in the dark over government plans to corporatise universities, and want a say in the planning process. Wan Abdul Manan...
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Draft for graduates angers Russians
Russian academics, scientists and creative artists last week appealed to President Yeltsin not to approve a military service law which envisages the compulsory drafting of all new graduates and...
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Scientists are media shy
Australian scientists regard the popular media with suspicion, believing it trivialises and distorts their work, according to a survey of nearly 180 scientists from mainland states. Communicating via...
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Question time for taboo on tenure
The knotty issue of academic tenure - politically untouchable until now - is suddenly under the microscope in the United States. Colleges are starting to offer alternatives to tenure for professors,...
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EU sends funds for Swahili rescue
Swahili culture in Kenya, under threat from urban modernisation, is to receive Pounds 2.5 million from the European Union towards its preservation. Most of the money will be used to restore...
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Well-known benefits in team playing
Martin Harris (THES April 21) concluded "sharing of information with all members of the community. . . can seemingly only be achieved in large and complex organisations in ways which are inherently...
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Part-timers key to better quality
Until recently I worked at London University as a part-time teacher of the austere-sounding English for academic purposes. I was based at a language centre which had flourished with the boom in cash-...
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Radicals react to squeeze
New Zealand universities must specialise, reduce academic tenure, and make students contribute to tuition fees to cope with funding cuts and shifting demand for courses, according Otago University...
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Give up inspection
The powers that be have a month to sort out a system of quality assurance for higher education. There is a widespread view that it cannot be done: that too many incompatible demands are being made....
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Lifelong learning at heart of debate
It is indeed rare to hear the voices of part-time students, and pleasing to see an editorial in The THES (April 21) paying explicit attention to them, now that they constitute more than 40 per cent...