Factions fight for key roles in merged union
Phil Baty discovers that the engagement between the AUT and Natfhe may not be running as smoothly as everyone wanted, with both partners vying to wear the trousers in their eventual marriage amid...
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Activists decry AUT's proposal to stand down equality body for a year
Phil Baty discovers that the engagement between the AUT and Natfhe may not be running as smoothly as everyone wanted, with both partners vying to wear the trousers in their eventual marriage amid...
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Chinese bid to get overseas fee boost
China has designated 53 of its universities and colleges to receive overseas students sponsored by foreign governments as it continues to work its balancing act with the education budget. The China...
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Tighter visa rules threat
The flood of fee-paying foreign students entering Australia's universities has slowed to a trickle, threatening the nation's A$7 billion (£3 billion)-a-year education export market. A collapse in the...
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Taiwan mayor looks to fill seats
Taiwan should consider allowing high-school graduates from mainland China to study in its universities and colleges, the Nationalist Party Kuomintang chairman Ma Ying-jeou has suggested, Michael...
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Sweden may end free education for non-EU learners
Non-European Union students studying in Sweden will face fees of 80,000 kronor (£6,000) a year if recommendations from a parliamentary committee are accepted. The committee - which includes key...
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Passing exams is a real gift
A student poll backed by Kyrgyzstan's ombudsman has identified the three most corrupt universities in the country and has revealed a cash-for-results culture among academics. Ombudsman Tursunbay...
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Students take on Pentagon
Students whose antiwar protests were recorded by the US military are using a legal manoeuvre to dig into Pentagon files that resulted from the spying. NBC News has reported that students who...
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Writing's on the wall for campus cell
Göttingen University in Germany is trying to raise €80,000 (£55,000) to save a series of damp, graffiti-lined rooms that once served as a campus prison, writes Clare Chapman. The eight cells were...
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French colleges launch joint institute
Two of France's most prestigious grandes écoles are joining forces to create a new institute to develop higher education and research in economics and finance. The HEC School of Management and the...
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Scholar Ship turns study into plain sailing
An Australian university is lending its academic authority to a project offering undergraduates and masters students the opportunity to study on a liner cruising halfway around the world. Macquarie...
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Hang together - or we will hang separately
Simon Davies and Gus Hosein lament the feeble support they got from academe when the Government attacked their work on IDcards It is time to admit an uncomfortable truth: academe is painfully inward...
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Hefce needs Commons touch
At a recent high-level meeting in Parliament about universities, one delegate remarked that, of course, the Higher Education Funding Council for England would no longer fund research in universities...
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Hacked off
Every now and then one receives a letter that leaves one in little doubt that the sender is more than a little grumpy. Take this e-mail from an academic to one of our reporters: "Truly you live up to...
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Tony who?
It seems vice-chancellors are queueing up to toss aside their Labour tendencies and to woo Boris Johnson, the new Tory Shadow Higher Education Minister. As they fight it out for diary space, he may...