Pensions in Hong Kong
In "pension funds change horses" (THES, April 7), Susie Weldon reports that the Hong Kong Polytechnic University retirement scheme is 90 per cent solvent and that retiring employees may receive fewer...
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Wait for the loan drop-outs
In your editorial "No More Fool's Gold" (THES, April 7) you mischievously compare the National Union of Students' decision to consider loan aid with Labour leader Tony Blair's abandonment of Clause...
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Muscling in on the mind
Hunt for language gene" (THES, April 7) made depressing reading and I hope that the geneticists referred to will have second thoughts before spending their careers on this search. They could look...
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Labour's avenues of liaison
I was entertained to read in "Meeting of minds off MPs' agenda" (THES, April 7) a suggestion that I did not meet regularly with my local university. In fact, I meet regularly with both the University...
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Semesters in Europe
Mike Fitzgerald says that some universities would be better off moving "to a European semester system" unhampered by Christian festivals (THES, April 7). This is timely as the theme of the May...
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Bite-sized chunks stick in the throat
Before I began my humanities degree, I had some vague but heart-felt notion that I wanted to return to education to "improve" myself and in some sense I believed that my course could give me more...
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A world-class mistake
The more effort British universities devote to the problems of the developing world, the better. But is the plan for the Natural Resources Institute, the research arm of the Overseas Development...
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Part-time paradox
The voices of part-time students are rarely heard. Occasionally the national annual conference of the National Union of Students hears about part-timers, usually - along with further education and...
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The brave new wave
Local communities are learning lightning-fast. In city halls and county chambers from Cornwall to Cumbria and beyond, it is almost de rigeur for the dynamic, go-far councillor to propose plans for a...
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War-torn campus reopens
* Twenty-five corpses were found on the campus during clean-up operations by volunteers in preparation for the re-opening, Vera Rich writes. Two mass graves had previously been discovered next to a...
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War-torn campus reopens
Kabul University reopened this month but no students and few lecturers were at the formal ceremony in the Afghan capital. The mood was more optimistic, however, than at the time of the last re-...
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Nigerian theatre works lost in fire
A fire at Nigeria's leading university has destroyed thousands of books and other documents on philosophy, theatre arts and Arabic and Islamic studies. Among material lost were dissertations...
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Atlas maps race literacy divisions
Years of research into educational statistics have just produced the first comprehensive education atlas of South Africa, to be used by planners as they begin the urgent task of upgrading and...
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Barrister strikes blow for aborigines
A New South Wales magistrate last week became the first aborigine and black woman to be installed chancellor of an Australian university. Pat O'Shane, a prominent advocate of women, aborigines and...
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Student voters waver
The two factors set to sway the outcome of the first round of voting in the French elections this Sunday are the youth vote and the level of abstention, according to political analysts here. Student...