Herzog calls for radical reforms
German president Roman Herzog has delivered a harsh message to the country's universities: "You are no longer good enough or fast enough." In a hard-hitting speech in Berlin he said "the best heads...
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Release campaign launched for youths
A campaign to win the release from prison of two Belarusian students charged with daubing anti-presidential slogans has been launched by pro-democracy forces in Minsk. Alexei Shidlovsky, an 18-year-...
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Holistic appeal
MARY WARNOCK (THES, October 31) describes the principle of double effect as "notoriously shifty". I agree it can be shifty, but only when it is abused, which happens when the four criteria, which are...
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Medics caught between two masters
I WOULD like to amplify the proposal to establish university hospital NHS trusts reported from the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology (THES, November 7). A recommendation for...
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End of the line for free JANET
University network administrators are alarmed at plans to introduce usage-based charges on the national academic network JANET within a year. Malcolm Read, secretary of the funding bodies' Joint...
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Super-fast link makes history
A historic high-speed computer link between the Australian National University and institutions in Japan will begin operating later this month. It will be the first time that an Australian academic...
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Japan's young job hunters scour the Web for leads
When 20-year-old Fumio Oishi started his fourth and final year at university in Tokyo last April his first priority was to learn how to use the university's Internet facilities and thereby begin the...
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Glasgow hones rare digital skills
The skills gap in digital design is being tackled by a state-of-the-art education, training and research centre at Glasgow School of Art. Paul Anderson, director of the school's new digital design...
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Staffordshire widens learning net with help from industry
Staffordshire University is to develop its community links through the Staffordshire Learning Net, a public/private initiative to put computers and Internet connections into all the county's schools...
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Net phone slashes costs
A significant obstacle in the development of effective communication between European education institutions has been removed with the successful launch of a new cost-cutting telecommunications...
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Masterful
(Photograph) - Masterful: The Royal Society of Arts is launching a new category in its Student Design awards - Communication and Landscape - that aims to replace ugly communications antennae with...
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Medical video focuses on rare views of brain
An educational video in the final stages of production should give medical science undergraduates a rare view of the brain. The video, in the online editing stage and due for release in the next...
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Abertay makes play for share of Pounds 45bn market
The University of Abertay, Dundee aims to boost Scotland's share of the Pounds 45 billion European software market with a pioneering MSc in computer games and virtual reality. The MSc in software...
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Global credit
Australia's Monash University has subscribed to the standards set by the Global Alliance for Transnational Education, and will have its courses listed on GATE's database. GATE was founded by the...
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Athens heads the new revolution
Greece is gearing up for the information society, Petros Stefaneas reports The past three years have seen a revolution in Greek higher education. But this one - unlike the revolutions of the early...