Laurie Taylor Column
Do come in and sit down. Thank you vice-chancellor. Now, Mr Casbolt, we have invited you to attend this meeting of the University Plagiarism Committee because of the distinct suspicion among several...
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Here's hoping for a fairer share
On average, graduates pay more tax than the national average. So, too, do McDonalds' franchises. If generation of tax revenue justifies degree subsidies, as Tim Curtin claims, state aid to burger...
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Too liberal a dose
Alan Ryan does not believe that "liberalism was ever more than contingently connected to laissez-faire in economics" ("A history of hostility to power", Books, THES, June 23). It would probably be...
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Sources of research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk ANGLO-GERMAN SOCIETY www.agf.org.uk Research projects The research...
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Grado
Marine archaeologists at the University of Trieste say that a Roman cargo ship found this week near Grado on the Adriatic dates back to 200 BC. Ship and cargo are said to be intact.
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Buenos Aires
Argentine education minister Juan Jose Llach has assured university teaching and administrative staff that their salaries will be unaffected by the government's decision to "cut its education budget...
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Contribution to the knowledge economy
(Photograph) - Design graduate Nicholas White from the University of Teesside with a scooter he designed as part of his final work. Photograph by NORTH NEWS
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES. Frank Furedi suggested ways to tackle internet plagiarism among students. * Mark Griffiths, Bob Rotheram, Roger Hopkins Burke, Richard Wood, Mark Davies, Andy Sutton, Hugh...
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Kano
A Libyan delegation visiting the ancient city of Kano in Nigeria signed an agreement to build an Islamic university there at a cost of about $300 million (Pounds 200 million). Nigerian federal...
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Oz reaps benefit of overseas interest
Australian universities earned almost A$800 million (Pounds 320 million) last year from fees paid by foreign students, who also spent another A$770 million on goods and services. More than 84,000...
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Terrorist colleges rife, says leader
Some Islamic schools and colleges in Russia are turning into breeding grounds for terrorism, according to the supreme mufti (Muslim leader) of Russia and the European members of the Commonwealth of...
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Swedish job falls foul of EU rules
Sweden's University of Gothenburg is under pressure to appoint a new professor of hydrospheric sciences after the European Court of Justice found that employment laws insisting on positive...
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'Golden nation' relegates tradition of tolerance and respect
The Dutch are becoming less tolerant, according to a social psychologist at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. Jan Janssens claims that parental pressure on children to express autonomous behaviour...
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President aligns with faculty on elections
Turkey's president has plunged the country's 22 state universities into chaos by rejecting all the rectoral candidates proposed by the higher education authority (Yok) in a move that implicitly...
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Madrid and Barcelona vie to be the first to go virtual
Two Spanish universities have separately announced within days of each other that they intend to be the first to offer virtual university courses in Spanish. The timing of the statements reveals...