Possible prototypes
The Warwick model The University of Warwick has teamed up with North Warwickshire and Hinckley College and Tile Hill College to propose a foundation degree in community enterprise and development,...
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Accounts system fury
Staff are demanding an independent inquiry into the "scandalous" introduction of a flawed accounting system at Cambridge University. The THES reported that Capsa, the new online...
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Question mark over Middlesex gagging clause
Did Middlesex University breach funding council regulations when it gagged former business school dean David Kirby? Professor Kirby left Middlesex in January this year, after a year's "...
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'Hang on to your HNDs'
It has been described by ministers as "a new qualification for a new century" that will "strengthen the links between higher education and the world of work"....
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In the news
The key contender to succeed Henry McLeish as Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning is Wendy Alexander, dubbed "the pint-sized policy powerhouse". Noted for her...
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Glittering prizes
University of Leeds academics have won the following prizes: Richard Smithells , emeritus professor of paediatrics, has won the Kennedy Foundation's International Award for Scientific Achievement for...
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On the move
David Southwood , of the department of physics, Imperial College, has been elected director of science of the European Space Agency . The following have been made Teacher Training Agency board...
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Concentration can dilute
The issues facing tertiary education in New Zealand will be depressingly familiar to Britain, says Bryan Gould No New Zealand government feels comfortable until it has set up a working party, task...
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Eyewitness
France is introducing educational measures to help its overseas departments and territories - those previously often neglected areas scattered across the globe that chose to remain French rather than...
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Belgrade
Marija Bogdanovic, acting rector of the University of Belgrade, is due to attend this week's CRE (Association of European Rectors) conference in Poland. She is likely to be confirmed as rector by...
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Khartoum
Authorities at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and at the University of Nouakchott, Mauritania, have dissociated themselves from the several hundred students seeking to join a volunteer army to...
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Wiesbaden
Fewer Germans were awarded science and engineering degrees in 1999 than in 1998, according to the federal statistics agency. Chemistry graduations were down by 13.5 per cent, physics by 13 per cent,...
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Messina
Police have arrested 37 people at Messina University as part of an investigation into Mafia penetration of the Sicilian university. Charges relate to corruption in medical exams, access to courses...
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Dusseldorf
A German court has awarded €4,090 (£2,378) compensation to a former economics student who failed an exam when a professor at the University of Muenster failed to mark one page of...
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Dialogue survives despite conflict
Israeli academics believe their personal contacts with Palestinian colleagues will continue despite the violent confrontations in Israel and the West Bank. Paul Schamm, project coordinator at Hebrew...