Salary strikes Oz
Academics in universities across Australia are stepping up industrial action in an effort to secure substantial wage rises. Strikes have disrupted universities in New South Wales and Queensland and...
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Kosovo students return
About 15,000 students returned to higher education in Kosovo this month as 13 university faculties and seven other higher education institutions resumed lectures. But the metallurgy faculty in the...
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No job spells end of study
University students returning to Kosovo are facing an uphill struggle to continue their studies. Many are taking jobs with the United Nations, Nato and aid agencies as translators over the summer to...
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Credit checks keep hard-up out of college
A national student lobby group has claimed that the Canadian government is abrogating its responsibilities to poor students and accused banks of dictating student-loan policies. The Canadian...
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Supercomputer brings dollars for scholars
A new supercomputer installed at the University of Melbourne could bring the university millions of dollars in revenue. The university's new Melbourne Advanced Research Computing Centre (MARCC) will...
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Learning gains from airwave bonanza
A competition for new Canadian radio frequencies that requires commercial services to include a learning component seems to be putting out only a faint signal to the university sector. For years,...
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Snake's big break
An encryption algorithm developed by three academics is among five finalists in the US competition to select an encryption standard for the 21st century. Serpent, a 128-bit block cipher, was...
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Remember November
An entry form for the European Academic Software Award is now online at www.easa-award.net. The finals are not until November 2000 in the Hague, but the deadline for entries is a full year earlier on...
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Home page
Andrew Smith of University College London will recreate your house in 3D virtual reality if you send him a set of photographs. The offer is part of a year-long experiment in communal city-building in...
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Why I... think all first-year students should be vaccinated against meningitis
Emma Jones, now 23, suffered from meningitis during her first year at Durham University. I had meningitis before the first clusters of cases started happening at universities. Staff at Durham...
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No monkey business
As Kansas bans Darwin from its curriculum, Jonathan Weiner argues that science and religion are on the same spiritual quest. The Kansas board of education voted last Wednesday to strike evolution...
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Paying lip service is not enough
Single mothers should be first in line for the government's student hardship funds, says Louise Chalkley. The government's decision to review hardship loans and access funds comes not a moment too...
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Strikes leave admissions offices clearing on the day
Universities were this week playing down the impact of strikes by members of the Association of University Teachers that were threatening to disrupt clearing yesterday and today. "We are pretty laid-...
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A sad salary tale of two lecturers
The Bett committee report on pay and conditions found big salary variations in higher education. It proposed streamlining negotiations by reducing the ten negotiating groups to a single national...
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A piper who does not play the payers' tune
Phil Baty looks into claims that the Quality Assurance Agency is unaccountable and may not be providing the university sector with value for money. The question "who quality-assures the Quality...