Reform deadlock broken
universities in Spain have reached an understanding with the education ministry that could enable long-awaited reforms to go ahead after a year of stalemate. A working group of rectors and government...
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Sex scandal takes its toll
A SAGA that began with a case of alleged sexual harassment involving a swimming coach and a students has ended with the resignation of the university president. John Stubbs, president of Simon Fraser...
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Music courses are 'too crammed'
The average university music course in Canada is having a difficult time stretching the musical canon over its curriculum. Although most music stores now carry a plethora of genres and cultures and...
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Women coaches challenge pay bias
COACHES of women's sports at universities and colleges in the United States could get paid similar salaries to their counterparts from big-time men's teams under government equal-pay guidelines....
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Turks claim student boom
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus boasts one of the best ratios of students to population in the world, with just under 10 per cent of the 200,000 population in higher and further education. In...
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Nyerere backs business
TANZANIA is creating a fourth public university from the former Institute of Finance Management.The new Dar-es-Salaam City University College is seeking affiliation with universities in Britain and...
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'Village head' refuses to talk
STUDENTS at Lagos State University have redesignated their vice chancellor "village headmaster" in protest at his refusal to open what they regard as meaningful dialogue over their grievances. Since...
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Soft drugs, hard battles
THIS seems to be the week for anonymity - a measure of how difficult it is to discuss sensitive issues openly even in our open society. On page one we carry a student's account of how he is paying...
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The school of hard edges
Tony Blair's European presidency is a testing time for education, argues Anne Corbett TONY BLAIR was recently drawn by Le Monde's cartoonist in Full Monty undress, protected where he needed it by the...
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Message for the media
"Research for the purpose of the RAE is to be understood as original investigation undertaken in order to gain knowledge and understanding." Definition for 1996 research assessment exercise. Question...
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Time for the end of the peer show?
Last November The THES published an anonymous article on peer review. Its three authors, collectively dubbed "John Smith", called for an end to the grip of the old boys' club on the award of research...
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Peer review needs youth and clarity
The need for a modernised, more anonymous process of application for research funds was recently advocated on these pages. Here, Richard Brook defends the present system but calls for key refinements...
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Originality in the east
WANG Gungwu wrote thoughtfully about the type of degrees which will best suit the universities of Southeast Asia ("Breadth and the Powerful", THES, December 26) and ended by suggesting that damage...
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Lecturing school days
FOR aspiring young lecturers in higher education the push for training and accreditation could have an unwelcome consequence. Universities normally appoint people who have finished or nearly finished...
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Truth and the nativity
YOUR article on the nativity stories (Perspective, THES, December 19) suffered from its attempt to interpret the views of theologians in terms of the modern/postmodern debate. There is nothing...