Finns rein in postgrad business
Finland is tightening up on the standards of mushrooming professional postgraduate courses. There are up to 500 specialist university and polytechnic programmes with close to 150,000 students but...
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Bribes pave student's path to legal career
Oleg is a gold medallist who graduated from school last month with a "red diploma" for excellence. This month he took his university entrance exams and again passed with flying colours. In September...
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Oz gets tough on visa abuse
More than 3,000 foreign students overstayed their visas in Australia last year, raising fears that some students are using their enrolments in education institutions as a means to remain permanently...
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Lit-crit hits the screen
Colin MacCabe argues that lecturers should use film adaptations to help students understand literary classics. The language of pre-20th century English literature is now almost impossible to read for...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a classic of reflection: " One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had had nothing to do with...
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An end to human wrongs?
Crimes against Humanity
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How to wake up in the morning without an alarm clock
Time, Love, Memory
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Maths, the universe and fried-egg theory
Between Inner Space and Outer Space
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Studies of a cruel and beautiful civilisation
Maya Civilization
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Higher Channels
John Davies picks programmes for the academically inclined (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the Week Evolutionary theory versus theology - that is the (perhaps false) antithesis at the heart of...
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The right man for the job?
Kenneth Barker has been confirmed by Thames Valley University as one of three names in the frame for perhaps one of the toughest jobs in higher education - vice-chancellor of Britain's first "failing...
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Masters of the hunt
If you need a new vice-chancellor in a hurry, who do you call? Phil Batty reports on the headhunters whose latest task is to fill the top slot at crisis-ridden Thames Valley University Governors: has...
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Working for the Yankee dollar
In the third of a series on academic opportunities around the world, philosopher Simon Blackburn and physicist Michael Duff explain why they quit British universities to try their luck in the land of...
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Deconstructing Gayatri
Can Gayatri Spivak's 'pretentiously opaque' writing make a difference in the real world? Jennifer Wallace talks to an academic who has eaten mice and snakes in rural India It is High Noon this summer...
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How to ... Learn in the community
WHAT David Hall and Irene Hall explain how students can use research skills to help voluntary bodies WHY Students discover some real-world applications for what they have learned and charities...