Bulgaria targets 'illegal' operators
The vice-president of Bulgaria's governmental education committee has accused 250 international universities of operating "illegally" in the country. Dimitar Kamburov said a report on education in...
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Malaysia promotes mixed race societies
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has announced funding for public universities and colleges to establish "unity clubs" to "bridge the growing racial gap between students". The main racial...
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Overcrowded market compels medics to look abroad for work
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality A system that produces more nurses and doctors than...
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Chaos fear as shortages of staff greet big reforms
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality French medicine is facing imminent upheaval, with...
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Growth threatens global standards
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality Continuing growth in demand for doctors has created...
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Greeks prefer to stay home
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality The boom in Greek health services has seen the...
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Crises dog US health system
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality The American medical system is lurching towards yet...
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Botswana to set up own medical school
More with less - THES reporters describe efforts around the world to meet the rising demand for trained medical staff without compromising quality The small African state of Botswana, which in the...
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'The long-held limit of 12 authors on papers existed to prevent articles ending like Hollywood blockbusters...
...where everyone gets a name check' Most areas of research are now team efforts, and the list of names attached to papers gives journals a real headache At Harwell, the British nuclear physics...
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Why I ...I think degrees could be completed in just one year
Our university system remains medieval; our teaching practices at best belong to the 19th century. Years of modularisation and semesterisation, e-learning and best practice have not changed what must...
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Dead good little urner
Coffins and urns adorned with the insignia of American universities and colleges are being used to raise cash for institutions. The items are being sold by Collegiate Memorials, "a family-owned...
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Pippin heck
A former chief scientific adviser to the government, Lord May of Oxford, has hit on a novel idea for making genetically modified foods acceptable to the public. Speaking in his role as president of...
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Get busy restoring trust fund
Scientists must be more robust and less defensive to counter public suspicion, argues Derek Burke Once upon a time, scientists thought that all we had to do was to decide whether a novel food or...
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Morris too minor for wall?
The conference room at the Department for Education and Skills that hosts press briefings has an array of photographs of former education secretaries lining the walls. Heavy-hitting politicians...
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Don's Diary: Extreme archaeology
July: Oxford It's that time of year again. The usual eve-of-battle doubts - three months of archaeological excavation about to begin. Will we survive? Early tomorrow we leave for Brittany. Brittany 8...