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Czech president Vaclav Havel has received an honorary degree from the University of Manitoba during a three-day visit to Canada.
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Australian students rush to pay for university places
Melbourne Enrolments of students opting to pay full fees for university courses in Australia have increased sharply this year. The conservative administration has slashed spending on universities and...
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Dakar
Students from the Central African Republic have peacefully occupied their country's embassy in Dakar, capital of Senegal, and ten have begun hunger strikes. They are protesting because their...
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Next week
News Is there a new pecking order for universities? Lecturers hold crunch meeting for the ILT Books Richard Overy takes an intimate look at the history of killing. Books focus: economics Features...
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Abi Duncan O'Meara
Abi Duncan O'Meara, featured last week on page 3 of The THES, "Younger students opt to go part-time", came to London after she had matriculated, aged 18, not 16 as stated.
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DTI urged to promote Britisheducation
The Department of Trade and Industry is thinking of taking a new role in promoting higher education. Michael Wills (below), a junior minister in the DTI, promised to look into the issue at a...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Today sees the launch of TV Living, a book based on a study funded by the British Film Institute that takes a long, hard look at the UK television audience. The BFI has booked a lunchtime...
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Graduates slam elite teaching as 'outdated'
Paris The most recent graduates of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration have written an open letter to French prime minister Lionel Jospin, criticising the prestigious college for its outdated...
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Uproar in Italy over cut-down philosophy
Rome Italy's philosophers are up in arms over plans to close faculties of lettere e filosofia and include scaled-down teaching of philosophy, with other subjects, on shorter humanities courses. Many...
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Newby promises tough stance
Vice-chancellors have ushered in an era of bold university reform with the election of a new chairman committed to modernising the sector. Howard Newby, vice-chancellor of Southampton University and...
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A visionary in the CVCP chair
Described even by union leaders at his own university as a "personable visionary" and a "political realist", Howard Newby's appointment as the CVCP's next chairman may signal vice-chancellors'...
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Social work on the frontline
Tirana Tal Gashi, 21, was in his third year studying electro-engineering, computing and telecommunications at Pristina University when war broke out in Kosovo. He had just been accepted to complete...
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'Freedom fighters' university struggles to survive
Durban Radical action is afoot to try to rescue a South African university that produced many black leaders in the struggle against apartheid. Financial disaster and closure of the University of Fort...
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Graduate incomes up but debtors increase
Graduate earnings seem to be improving so that more graduates are paying off their student loan debts. The Student Loans Company said that the proportion deferring their loan repayments fell from 48...
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Government U-turn on disabled grants
The government has restored full access to disabled student allowances for the over 50s after an earlier decision to limit eligibility angered disability groups. Education minister Baroness...