Cuts top staff hit-list
ORGANISATIONS representing 700,000 university and college staff around the world have expressed alarm at the way governments are cutting higher education spending. Delegates at an Education...
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Death fuels Israeli fears
THE DEATH of Zvulun Hammer, Israel's education minister, has re-opened political-religious speculation about the future of the higher education system. The 62-year-old leader of the right-wing...
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Telemedicine call pricing 'ridiculous'
Experts on dentistry and distance education exchanged speeches and well-tended smiles last month as a videoconference linked Norway, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, the United States and two United...
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Modem institution struggles with the past
EU accolades and swift expansion have thrust the Open University of Catalonia into the virtual spotlight, Rebecca Warden reports. The first 200 students enrolled in October 1995 had a choice of...
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Together alone on the edge of space and time
Green issues and teaching with technology are fertile areas for an experiment with distance learning, Claire Neesham reports. Location is not an issue when it comes to enrolling on two new courses...
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Cupid's arrow falls short of its target
AMERICAN university and college students are more focused on their studies this Valentine's Day than on marriage or romance, a survey has found. Nearly half of men and 65 per cent of women on...
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Euro-MP tells union to back foreigners
AN ITALIAN Euro-MP has criticised his country's handling of the case of the 1,500 foreign-language lecturers who are claiming maltreatment and discrimination on the grounds of nationality. At a forum...
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Hi-tech aids culture vanguard
ITALY is harnessing new technology to put it in the European vanguard of the conservation, restoration and management of museums and monuments. The project, called Parnasso after the home of the...
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Green professor leads party to the polls
ALEXANDER Van der Bellen faces the new semester with some apprehension. The 54-year-old professor in political economy has his lecture notes prepared, the students are motivated and exam marking is...
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Outrage at 'spies in seminar' ploy
CASPAR Einem, Austria's education minister, wants to send spies into universities to root out poor teaching and absentee professors who do not carry out their teaching requirements. The secret...
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Why the mature are cheesed off
THE FALL in applications to university by mature students, particularly older mature students, should set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall. These figures are the first real evidence of the effect of...
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On deciding who to clone
In the late 1970s scientists and engineers decided to restrict genetic engineering until there had been a debate about the prospective uses and abuses of the, then, new technology. We are in a...
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Biologists must wake up to warfare
Biological weapons are a cheap and easy way to cause mass deaths, but British scientists are supremely indifferent says Wendy Barnaby THE stand-off in Iraq between Saddam Hussein and the United...
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Power and glory games
Can the North reforms be implemented without destroying Oxford's fundamental ethos, asks Vernon Bogdanor OXFORD is an ancient university and yet it operates on strikingly modern principles. Its...
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With reference to references, let's forget all about them
I FELT painfully sympathetic when I read Valentine Cunningham's account of the ceaseless round of reference writing (THES, January 30). Not because I have written many but because I have asked for so...