Elite scramble for research cash
Vice chancellors have begun warring with each other over moves to create an elite group of research-based institutions. The so-called Group of Eight is accused of trying to insulate member...
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Malay move to educate at home
Malaysia has promised students who study in local universities priority in the queue for scholarships and study loans. The move will hit intakes in Britain and other countries which enrol large...
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Tenure row hits union leader poll
The biggest academic union in the United States is moving towards acceptance of reviews of tenure, under attack in nearly half of the country's 50 states. The 45,000-member American Association of...
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Beirut treasure risks ruin
Lebanon's bitter civil war stirred up more than hatred. It stirred up the poorly planned streets and buildings of modern Beirut and uncovered an archaeological treasure trove throughout the country....
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Watery spirit of Caligula lives on
A group of Italian academics and enthusiasts are planning to reconstruct a 230-foot ship from the 1st century ad reign of the Roman emperor, Caligula. It will be the largest ancient ship to be...
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Comrades-in-science
Lack of international research cooperation is hampering the fight against global threats, such as those to the environment and nutrition, Unesco warns in its second World Science Report published...
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You may say you're a drifter. . .
Seventy-one per cent of adults believe that learning can lead to a better quality of life. But 63 per cent admit that they are unlikely to take part in a course of any sort over the next 12 months....
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Ideas of Marches
Wales has the supreme good fortune to be far away from Whitehall. It has been possible for the universities, colleges and funding councils there to work away quietly at devising a system for post-...
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No news can be good news
The Pope - No News". Inscribed on evening paper placards by an ingenious publicity manager, that slogan did wonders for sales of the old Star among London catholics on a day when there genuinely was...
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Academia as Roman holiday
You may as well call your local chippie a restaurant as grace Italian universities with the title of university, protests Richard Davies Italian universities have no business participating in...
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Tussle over Tucson
Aisling Irwin's article (THES, April 12) gave the misleading impression that the talks hosted by Qinetics International were set up to counteract the Tucson "Towards the Science of Consciousness"...
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Getting a slice of a bigger pie
The envious may see those with degrees getting better seats in the job market 'house' at their expense, but investment in higher education has benefits for the country's economic prospects too,...
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Cut but not dried
May I appeal for clarity over the term "efficiency"? In one short article (THES, April 19) we have "efficiency gains", "efficiency squeezes" and "efficiency cuts". These terms appear to be used...
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Dubiousness of profit scheme
The suitability of "profit-related pay" to higher education is extremely dubious. What effect would the notion of "profit" have on activities such as counselling students, collaboration between...
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Slipping to unfreedom
The enthusiasm to define the essence of "graduateness", identify the sine qua non of the degree grade, and establish the panel of guardians of all that is unalloyed about the gold standard of the...