Doncaster bid for university status
Doncaster College is the latest further education institution to declare plans to bid for university status. David Gates, its principal, confirmed this week that the college was aiming for a...
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Chinese puzzle over Australian visa test failure rate
Almost half the Chinese students who took a English language test required for permanent residency visas in Australia failed, despite having completed their courses over the previous 12 months. Last...
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US route for HK degrees
Hong Kong's gradual move away from the British system of education and toward American and mainland Chinese models is leading to a proliferation of associate degrees. By 2009, university degrees will...
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Loan amnesty called to plug Kiwi skill gap
The New Zealand Labour government's pre-election promise to abolish all interest charges on student loans will come into effect on April 1 this year. Opposition politicians have called it "free money...
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Bush launches language initiative to foster understanding
President George W. Bush has used a gathering of university presidents to launch a $114 million campaign to expand the teaching of Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. The goal of the National Security Language...
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Abuse filmed in US lab
Undercover agents for animal rights organisations have produced damning video footage of animal abuse unrelated to scientific experimentation in a US university laboratory. But the revelations have...
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'Elite 5' is a fix, critics claim
Members of the panel who will decide which German universities will be named the country's five "elite" institutions have rejected suggestions that political manoeuvres have skewed the process. A...
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'Putsch' topples research chief
France's National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) is in crisis following the resignation of its president, the appointment of a successor, the dismissal of its director-general and a mass revolt...
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Fees flap in Israel
Israel's acting prime minister has put higher tuition fees back on to the political agenda as the country prepares for a general election. Finance minister Ehud Olmert argued that increased fees...
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Extreme measures only will combat corruption
The Korean cloning scandal could not have happened without the West's compliance, argues Robert Laughlin Here in Korea there is tremendous soul-searching, hand-wringing and blame-assigning over the...
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Gary Day
I sometimes worry that I'm not English because I don't have a shaven head, tattoos and a compulsion to punch people. Actually that last one is not true. I am just too much of a coward to indulge it....
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Offa overhaul is off the agenda
News that John Rushforth is to leave the Office for Fair Access to follow Sir Howard Newby, outgoing chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, to the University of the West...
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Hello, goodbye at Wellcome
What is going on at the Wellcome Trust? The organisation is now one of the biggest players in biomedical research, with a budget to rival that of the Medical Research Council. The much talked about...
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Menzies enjoys winning feeling
For those of you who missed it - this week's big news is that Sir Menzies Campbell, ageing sprinter and Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife, has won the leadership election. After a tough battle...
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Beauty is in the eye of the believer
PILGRIMAGE - THE SACRED JOURNEY The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Architecture, until April 19 The growth of religious extremism and hostility in the modern world is alarming. It is partly founded on...