Post-apartheid jobs scramble
South Africa is tightening its borders in the face of growing calls by black people for locals to be given jobs before foreigners. The move is expected to hit hard at universities and technikons that...
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Last straws and red herrings
The report (THES, June 28) of financial concerns over initial teacher training contained a number of inaccuracies and red herrings. There is no doubt that providers of primary initial teacher...
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Some Rhodes lead to freedom
The Anti-Apartheid Movement's archive has found a home. Simon Targett reports. Cecil Rhodes was not noted for his anti-apartheid credentials. President of the Cape Colony, head of the De Beers mining...
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Alzheimer's genetic statistics 'flawed'
Genetic statistics available to the United States public to predict their likelihood of getting Alzheimer's disease are wrong, it has been claimed. If true, this means that people are receiving an...
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No confidence vote
Gerald Stockdale, principal of Swansea Institute of Higher Education, suffered another setback this week when the college's academic board registered a vote of no confidence in his leadership. The...
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Cool Cowell
The Conservative Party can go into the pre-election period knowing it has an experienced cool head as its new fund-raising supremo. Tim Cowell cut his teeth explaining away the inexplicable,...
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Selective funding is here to stay
Selective funding for research is here to stay. The only question is whether to give top-rated departments an even bigger share, universities and colleges were told this week. English higher...
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Exile who came in from the cold
When David Johnson fled South Africa in 1983, he left his heart behind but had no idea of the part he would play in the rebirth of his nation. Now a lecturer at the University of Bristol and an...
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Hail the kings of accountancy age
Charles Leonard argues that UK industry is struggling because it is frightened of taking risks. I was recently interviewed for a senior management post at a university on the south coast but was...
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The ultimate horse opera
Christopher Frayling picks his favourite film - Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. Sergio Leone's Italian western - his arrivederci to the most distinctive of Hollywood's genres - was made...
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Japan learns web language
Twenty-one-year-old Takehiro Shinkai spends 12 hours a week learning English at a language school in Tokyo and just ten hours a week attending the lectures and workshops which make up the information...
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Degree system for scrapheap
The classified honours degree system should be scrapped, academics and higher education managers have concluded. It is out of step with a mass higher education sector and the need for more explicit...
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Retreat on equality
London University's Birkbeck College has withdrawn an equal opportunities statement in its media studies course material after the Freedom Association complained it smacked of "Orwellian thought...
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Medicinal foods fuel debate
Ethnobotanists are re-examining years of data and revisiting distant indigenous peoples as they discover that information they have collected about medicines has a gaping hole. Ethnobotanists and...
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Two-tone cash call
In successive weeks, the Higher Education Funding Council for England is putting out its major consultation documents on the two main things academics are meant to do - teaching and research. The two...