Italy to bridge Arab divide
Philosophy lecturer Armando Plebe dreamed of a higher education bridge across the Mediterranean to promote understanding, cultural enrichment and trade between Europe and the Arab world. The dream...
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Well-positioned Malta enjoys its status as first global learning hub
An internet-based university is to start operating courses from Malta that are aimed at spreading expertise on information technology communications, especially to developing countries. Online...
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Medicine facing a crisis
Universities are facing a medical staff crisis that could jeopardise the expansion in medical schools announced as part of government plans to save the National Health Service. "Vice-chancellors have...
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Suits you
Kay Henderson, who is in her final year of fashion design at Nottingham Trent University, won the Royal Society of Arts fashion design award and the John Lewis Travel award.
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Union campaigns to scrap QAA
Lecturers' union Natfhe is to campaign for the abolition of the Quality Assurance Agency after delegates to its annual conference launched a series of attacks on the inspection regime. Closely...
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Revamped plan aimed at equality bull's-eye
A revision of Ghana's university loan scheme, designed to improve equity and make the sector more financially viable, could be up and running by the start of the academic year in September. Proposals...
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Stellenbosch changes hands but not ethos
South Africa's leading Afrikaans-medium university this month appointed an executive from Australia's University of Wollongong to its top post. Chris Brink, a South African mathematician, is to...
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Rapid response
I would like to clarify a misunderstanding in the article on the University of Sunderland ("'Fleet-footed' bid to deal with shortfall", THES , May 25). What I was trying to say in our interview was...
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Lobby sees crumbs, not cake, in science recipes
Science has been disappointingly omitted from the three main parties' election manifestos, according to Peter Cotgreave, director of the lobby group, Save British Science. The main Conservative Party...
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Blair warns of Tory budget axe
Universities would have their budgets cut by almost a quarter under Conservative spending plans, prime minister Tony Blair told The THES this week. Mr Blair said it would be impossible for the...
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We'll raise you seven prisons
As Labour tries to out-bid the Tories in the fight against crime, nobody has checked the facts, say Roger Matthews and Jock Young. Between 1995 and 1999 there was a 23 per cent drop in the crime rate...
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Fight for humanity
David Cromwell asks why the media and politicians seem blind to the dangers of globalisation It is the elephant in the room - the one big issue that politicians and media in this election have tried...
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Optimists meet apathy on trail
THES reporters talk to four academics who are candidates in the general election. Robert Collinson Law lecturer Robert Collinson believes he is on track to reverse the thumping 18 per cent swing from...
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Most parties field four men for every woman
Northern Ireland has its best chance in more than 30 years of returning a woman to Westminster, according to the Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics at Queen's University, Belfast. Twenty per...
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Whisky to woo voting wizard
Ever fancied playing Peter Snow for an evening? Politics and computer experts at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, have devised an online "swingometer" that allows people to do just that....