MP demands audit as principal resigns
A Labour MP has called for the establishment of a special National Audit Office-style review body to examine the overseas activities of higher education institutions. This follows the resignation of...
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Treasury considers 'pay all the way' proposals
Proposals to cut spending on further and higher education by handing much of the cost over to students, their parents, and employers, have been considered by the Treasury, it was revealed this week....
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Robert Gordon argues contracts
The Robert Gordon University is appealing against a Court of Session judgment which ruled that its bid to introduce revised contracts for new staff was unlawful. The appeal centres on whether...
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Dumfries presses for university
Glasgow University may set up a college in the south-west of Scotland that could evolve into a university in its own right. A Dumfries pressure group, the Crichton University of Southern Scotland...
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Six of the best 'could be better'
France's six new universities are dynamic and have reached a level of development which is "irreversible", but state aid has been "notoriously inadequate", according to the academic assessment body,...
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Grade of error on supervision
While I share David Taplin's (THES, July 12) concerns about the quality of doctoral education, he is mistaken to suggest that the report which I and my colleagues prepared for the United Kingdom...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. Wake feeling cold and still jet- lagged. It is only 36 hours since I returned from a two-month research trip to Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. Rush in to attend the 10am short-listing meeting...
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US drop-out rate hits high
Drop-out rates at United States colleges have reached a record high. The figures have increased as private universities have reached lower down the financial scale to recruit students. In 1995 nearly...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word first appeared as a desolate dwelling in a Victorian monthly: "But I know that my dearest little pets are very pretty, and that my darling is very beautiful, and that my...
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350-ton bird outperforms budgie
The Simple Science of Flight
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A 'post' man on his rounds
The Meanings of Mass Higher Education
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A bit of Denmark in Japan
Hamlet and Japan
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A Chinese chequered history
China's Universities 1895-1995
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A great man sadly reduced
Linus Pauling
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Concrete views over the Garden of Eden
African Exodus