Mergers, marriages and unions
Effective representation of higher education staff is indeed essential in these challenging times (THES leader, February 16). The central issue in building greater unity is what structures among...
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Adapt to survive in formidable form
We do not need to make great speeches in order to understand the importance of lifelong education and training: a simple glance around at the world will suffice. Take the workplace, for example,...
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Diggers accused of grave robbery
Attempts by Israel's religious political parties to increase their influence over archaeological digs have been checked following pressure from Shimon Peres's leftwing coalition partners. Moves had...
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Secret of the bone cave unearthed
Archaeologists had a field day when they found remains of the oldest Europeans in Spain, but in Israel they are in trouble. Discoveries that change understanding of human evolution are a rare...
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Paris campus in asbestos risk
Asbestos contamination at the Paris university campus of Jussieu requires Pounds 100 million to fix and despite official recognition of the urgency, the French government is dragging its feet....
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Exploits of an oil-slick spotter
An oil-slick tracker invented by a Southampton University scientist had its baptism by fire this week when it was called into action in the clean-up operation involving stricken tanker Sea Empress...
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Words via the dragon
Disabled students are receiving top priority at the University of Luton thanks to a new centre equipped with the latest technology. The Disability Assessment Centre cost Pounds 108,000 to set up,...
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A bitter cuppa for lecturers
As controller of lecturers' teaching performance, Stephen Bretschneider, head of administration at Hamburg's smallest university, had few friends. So when his dead body was discovered by a hapless...
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Rectors accused of freemason link
Italian universities, already staggering under scores of corruption investigations, now face the charge that half of all rectors are freemasons and that the semi-secret international Catholic...
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Palms of peace
(Photograph) - Palms of peace: Thousands of students, their hands painted white to symbolise their condemnation of violence, gathered outside the Autonomous University of Madrid last week on the day...
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Queen's elects child of the non-famous
The son and daughter of two high-profile Ulster politicians have lost their first election - for president of the student union at Queen's University. Deirdre McAliskey, daughter of renowned...
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Archive coup for Rhodes library
Rhodes House library in Oxford has secured the complete archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, complementing its existing collection and enhancing research opportunities. The collection, one of the...
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Fee-payers feel more attached
Alumni relations could actually be improved if students paid for their own higher education, according to a survey by university marketing specialists. Ian O'Neill, author of Alumni Relations In UK...
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Students wary of plan to turn union into firm
Proposals are being considered that could create Britain's first full student union company. The plans are raising fears that autonomy could suffer at the hands of a university parent corporation. A...
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Tomorrow's tonic or today's bitter pill?
Simon Targett discovers how, despite a recent dip in the share price of a major biotech firm, Britain's academic spin-off companies are still on to a good thing. Just three weeks ago the share price...