English speakers dominate the first 20
The English-speaking world produces most of the leading global players in the arts and humanities, according to academics in the field. All but two of the top 20 universities in the world for arts...
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Science institute faces delays
Botswana's second university - due to open next year - will not be finished until 2009 at the earliest, the Ministry of Education has confirmed. The university is due to be built at Palapye, 260km...
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Canadian heads to be held to account
Supreme Court rules in favour of student in row over arbitrary suspension by York, reports Philip Fine. Canadian university heads may be held accountable for their actions as elected officials after...
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Monash to focus overseas
Monash University has decided against following the example of its rival the University of Melbourne, which is shifting its focus to postgraduate courses, writes Geoff Maslen in Melbourne. Instead,...
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Retreat over budget cuts
Israeli universities' threat not to open for the new academic year has forced the Government to backtrack over budget cuts. But the fate of the second semester hangs in the balance with the...
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US elite compete to raise billions
Jon Marcus reports on record-breaking Ivy League fundraising campaigns. Alumni of top US universities are being asked for billions of dollars in collective donations for new research facilities and...
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Decade of disruption
French taxpayers are forking out millions in rent for temporary premises because the Government is dragging its feet over the renovation of France's leading scientific and medical university,...
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Few jobs for the Jr
Italian architects are apprehensive about the arrival of a new generation of graduates who have completed a three-year university course instead of the five years' training required to practise. The...
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We sacrifice our souls on the altar of employability
What shall it profit us if university values are allowed to wither? Ian McNay issues a warning for higher education. It was in the midst of another war more than 60 years ago that the Cambridge don F...
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Gary Day
There was outrage in some quarters last week when it was suggested that academics should spy on their Islamic students. I can't see what all the fuss is about. It would make a nice change to monitor...
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Little thrill but almost a spill
FAIRGROUND: THRILL LABORATORY. Dana Centre, Science Museum, final night Wednesday, November 31, from 5.30pm, featuring the Booster and academic speakers, tickets £10 Here's the challenge. Have...
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Sadly missed?
Educationists from all corners of the country turned up at the Nuffield review into 14-to-19 education and training. Countless universities, not to mention unions, pressure groups and educational...
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Research fetish
We know research and enterprise are sexy and all, but there are limits. On the front page of a Teesside University magazine devoted to the subject is a somewhat provocative red, shiny very high-...
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Writing's on the wall
A New York university is the first to introduce a course that teaches students "how to identify quality journalism from junk". Stony Brook University's news literacy course will be taught to more...
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Another jurisdiction
John Hood, Oxford University vice-chancellor, was in typically combative mood at a Reuters event in London this week: no quarter given on admissions or governance reforms. The only intervention that...