The politics in moves to raise standards
The QAA faces allegations of playing politics before serving the sector. Mike Fitzgerald, former vice-chancellor of the first "failing" university, Thames Valley University, said that he and TVU had...
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Mission statement
The agency's mission is to promote public confidence that the quality of provision and standard of awards in higher education are being safeguarded and enhanced. It will do this by: Working with...
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Rome
The Italian government has stripped La Sapienza University of control of the Rome Policlinico, Italy's biggest hospital and medical school. The move followed a succession of scandals. The university...
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Debt dampens spirit of protest
In our last survey of student life, Jennifer Currie hears how undergraduates have bowed to logic - choosing degrees that will get jobs to pay off loans. If students are no longer political animals,...
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In the news
The Student Loans Company may be very much in the news this week, but its chief executive, Colin Ward, prefers to stay out of the limelight. A former chief accountant with the Scottish Development...
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Don's diary
Monday. In to work, wrestle with a book chapter and conference organising. Check some websites to see what is predicted for the eclipse. The usual suspects: gridlock, unwanted new age travellers,...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION www.esf.org Second Call for Conference...
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On the move
Goldsmiths College, University of London has made the following appointments: Kevin Robins, professor of cultural geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, becomes professor of...
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Glittering prizes
King Alfred's College, Winchester, will present its own honorary awards for the first time at this year's graduation ceremonies in Winchester Cathedral. Honorary fellowships go to: Martial Rose,...
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Eyewitness
The Holy Inquisition is best remembered for its pursuit of religious heresy, but newly reviewed evidence suggests that, in Italy at least, witchcraft, sorcery and black magic more frequently...
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Learning gives a society life
Adult education helps fight social exclusion, but solid research must underline the point, says Ian Nash. There are close parallels across all north Atlantic countries in macro economic approaches to...
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Warsaw
Uladzimir Antonau, a Belarusian student activist, has applied for political asylum in Poland after being arrested twice for participating in public protests over the past six months and expelled from...
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Abijan
All three campuses of the University of Cote D'Ivoire have been closed indefinitely after the governing council declared the 1998-99 academic session void in all faculties except medicine and...
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Dublin:World watch
Plans for the ¤39 million (Pounds 26 million) National College of Ireland in the Dublin docklands are to be scaled back after official documents revealed it has not been sanctioned by the...
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Smart plants hold the key
Biotechnology and genetic engineering may offer the solution to Australia's salinity crisis, with scientists hopeful of manipulating agricultural crops to mimic natural vegetation. "I don't think...