Scholars, get wise, not just smart
Universities should help people acquire wisdom rather than knowledge - this is the rallying cry of a growing band of academics who want to revolutionise the nature of academic inquiry. Friends of...
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HND interest wanes
The market for two-year sub-degrees has shrunk significantly since the Government introduced its flagship foundation degree five years ago, new figures reveal. Data provided for The Times Higher by...
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Now, where to put that knitted cactus... a lair with more flair
Black walls, gold Venetian blinds, a chandelier and a breathtakingly eclectic collection of objects from knitted cactuses to an inflatable kangaroo - who would work in a room like this? The answer is...
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Students in the dark are at big risk of dropping out
Many new students start higher education with almost no idea of what their institution or degree course will be like - which makes them more likely to consider dropping out, a study has found, writes...
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Staff and students in US rally to back low-paid workers striking to win higher wages
Students and faculty at some of the top universities in the US are taking action in support of low-paid workers. Some 350 janitors, cleaners, landscapers and painters at the University of Miami went...
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Austrian sues over lack of lectures
An Austrian student union is taking legal action against Graz Medical University on behalf of a student who is demanding compensation for loss of future earnings because of a lack of lectures. The...
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Terror laws spark alarm
Geoff Maslen reports from Melbourne on how academic freedom is being threatened by new sedition legislation Australian vice-chancellors are alarmed by government efforts to tackle terrorism by...
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Canada wakes up to fiscal cold shower
Canada's universities got a cold shower of fiscal thriftiness from its new government's first budget last week. Spending plans announced by the Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper contrast...
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France begins a debate on youth study and work
Dominique de Villepin, the French Prime Minister, is leading a national debate on strengthening links between universities and employers. The debate was announced at the end of March by President...
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'Fund pure research,' Putin is told
Russia must target spending on the most promising areas of pure research if it is to retain a leading role in international science, Vitaly Ginzburg, the Nobel prizewinning physicist, has told...
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Call for sweeping Euro reforms
Europe's universities are riddled with "rigidities and hindrances", the European Commission says in a strategy document published this week that calls for "immediate, in-depth and co-ordinated change...
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Ottawa
Close friends of former University of Toronto professor Ramin Jahanbegloo fear he may have been tortured since his arrest at Tehran airport. Mr Jahanbegloo, now head of the Cultural Research Bureau,...
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Windhoek
Hundreds of students at the University of Namibia are refusing to eat compulsory breakfasts introduced to improve attentiveness and reduce yawning in lectures. The students say the N$12 (£1) a day...
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Zagreb
Croatia is to establish a university in the northern coastal city of Pula to help meet student demand. Education Minister Dragan Primorac says the country's 160,000 undergraduates are only half the...
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Stockholm
The Swedish Government has refused to extend the residence permit of Russian biologist Andrei Zamyatin, arrested on espionage charges while working at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences...