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A government survey has found that fewer than half of all American teachers consider themselves prepared for the demands of working in public schools - raising standards, handling students with...
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Deep into 'bandit country'
Gerd Nonneman meets amiable Kalashnikov-carrying Yemenis in a country struggling towards unity I returned from Yemen just as the news of the fatal hijacking erupted last December, and before the...
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Getting ahead
(Photograph) - Education minister Baroness Blackstone visits a hairdressing workshop at Cato Manor Technical College in Durban during her visit to South Africa. Photograph: Patrick Mtolo.
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES.. Graham Zellick urged the government not to ask people about their religion in the next census Peter Harvey. Professor of Buddhist studies, University of Sunderland Graham...
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Are agriculture departments being swallowed up by schools of biology?
How to keep ahead of the herd Are agriculture departments being swallowed up by schools of biology and why does it matter? Email us on soapbox@thes.co.uk
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Eye witness
While attention is concentrated on the unfolding drama of the Kosovo peace process after Rambouillet, Croatia is preparing for parliamentary elections later this year. The Croatian Democratic Union (...
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Blackstone ties FE-training knot
Significant British involvement in South African further education and training is likely following a visit by Labour education and employment minister Baroness Blackstone and a high-powered...
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Laws will 'create army of generals'
Italy's parliament is discussing a new law to "promote" all university researchers to professorships. If the legislation goes through, the role of researcher will disappear, to be absorbed into a...
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Resolution fails to win debate in European Parliament
A resolution supporting foreign lecturers, who claim breaches of European employment law by Italy's universities, failed to win a debate in the European Parliament last week, but is expected to have...
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Palestine colleges run short of cash
A number of universities in the territories run by the Palestinian Authority are facing a severe funding shortfall. Palestinian universities are private bodies and have little or no state support....
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Guiding spirit takes class on a trip
Jack Miller gets his Toronto University class underway by turning off the lights and telling his students to close their eyes. If students monitor their feelings better, they will become better...
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Union rejects plans for 10 per cent tax
A proposed goods and services tax (GST) threatens Australian higher education funding, according to the national academic union. In a submission to a senate inquiry into the tax, the National...
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Fiery pay protest burns itself out
The walkout by Cambodian lecturers and high-school teachers last month was a firebrand protest. Hundreds of them assembled at the education ministry in Phnom Penh with paraffin and a pile of used...
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Court to rule on age bias lawsuits
The US Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether public university faculty staff can sue for age discrimination in a case involving more than 30 professors in Florida and Alabama. Lower courts have...
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A definitively flexible expression
Get a life, virtually speaking. Tony Durham traces the often rugged history of virtuality The word "virtual" is used for many things which are not quite what they seem. But it probably found its way...