Private funds halt campus crumble
Further education colleges are to be encouraged to borrow millions of pounds to replace crumbling campuses through a new lending agency. The Further Education Funding Council has launched a public-...
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Face of protest
(Photograph) - An Indonesian student activist shouts slogans outside the parliament compound during a meeting of the People's Consultative Assembly on Monday. Protesters believe members of the...
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Let's follow our conscience
Brenda Gourley looks to a medical school that was a voice for justice in apartheid to guide the anti-Aids fight It might not seem like much to institutions able to measure their history in hundreds...
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Belgrade
The Serbian student-led opposition movement Otpor has launched its campaign against federal Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in the snap election that he has called for September. Otpor's slogan...
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Cheating students expose professor's failure
Eminent Italian academic Salvatore Sechi, a lecturer in contemporary history at Ferrara University, has revealed that a quarter of his students cheated in an exam and that university authorities did...
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Female staff call for state support
A report by a group of French female university professors has urged the government to increase the number of women in senior academic posts. The authors advocate limiting the number of posts an...
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Government 'profits' from investment in university sector
The Australian economy receives more than A$20 billion (Pounds 8 billion) a year from the activities of its universities, according to new research. Higher education's direct contribution is almost A...
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The '60s live on in rural New England
Long-haired students in colourful loose clothing and bare feet navigate a campus of brick and precast concrete buildings papered with handmade notices advertising poetry slams and lectures on such...
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Bit of pure marketing is a Noble study goal
E-commerce is still the main web buzzword, but some online retailers, such as booksellers Barnes & Noble, are turning to a new variant - edu-commerce. Since its launch in May 1997, Barnes...
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Carving out a niche on the web
A specialist carpentry business in the west of Scotland is hoping to gain access to global markets with the help of Paisley University's new e-business centre. Paisley has set up the centre with...
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Net portals are wizards of Oz
An increasing number of Australian universities are establishing virtual gateways that provide staff and students online access to academic, administrative and support resources. Users receive a...
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No place for snobbery in jobs market
Chris Woodhead's parting gift to students receiving A-level results this week - denigrating the degree courses they are entering before they have even accepted their places - is ill-directed. The...
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Some ways to keep the melting pot full of talent
In the third of our series on universities in the 21st century, Rowan Boyson argues for paying Child Benefit into individual learning accounts, private funding and closer community links "Stick to...
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Echoes of TVU in Derby fiasco
As with Thames Valley University we are told there are lessons to be learnt for the sector from a damning Quality Assurance Agency report on the failings of a pioneering new university to protect...
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A tough break
After 20 years as a university administrator, I was a little surprised by your item on the difficulties that academics find in taking their annual holidays ("A holiday - what's that?" THES, August 11...