College above discount shop dashes hopes
Foreign students at the Maritime Greenwich College have been left disillusioned after discovering that their degrees will not have the accreditation they expected. Phil Baty reports When Lekrajsingh...
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Ghost professors haunt Peking
Allegations of dishonesty over the positions of star Chinese academics have proved a public relations disaster for Peking University. In early July, Qiu Chengtong , a professor of mathematics at...
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Ethics row hits research body
Students want Canadian council to review alleged misconduct, writes Philip Fine A Canadian research council is under fire after refusing to investigate a case that appears to have broken copyright...
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Backing for Serb institute
A Kosovo-Albanian member of the negotiating team on the future status of Kosovo has stated that the Serbian minority population has the right to its own Serbian-taught university. The statement by...
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Hurricane repairs stall as cash squeeze bites
New Orleans universities are furious with the Government and insurers for failing to pay up, reports Jon Marcus One year on from the Hurricane Katrina disaster, universities in the affected region...
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Minister pledges one-off bonus to win over poor students
French freshers who study away from home will qualify for an allowance of €300 (£200) to help with settling-in expenses, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced. He told an assembly of chief...
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'Sales' policy threat to quality
New Zealand is risking the quality and reputation of its tertiary education system by treating international students primarily as a source of revenue, a report commissioned by the Education Ministry...
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Don't waste our talents, we're not illiterate idiots
From delivering lectures in Kabul to delivering pizzas in London, academic refugee Haroon Amirzada's woes did not end when he escaped the Taleban I was tortured for two years in a Taleban prison. The...
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An effort to un-lose Marbles
A precious stone thought to have been swiped by a German academic 135 years ago has been returned to Greece. The Greek Government hopes the gesture will bolster efforts to bring back the Elgin...
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Paper defies peer pressure
Here at The Times Higher , we like to think of our newspaper as an essential, even a defining, part of campus life. So it was reassuring to find several references to it in the new comic novel A...
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A blistering idea
The steep inclines of Edinburgh's New Town and the Mound may be rather more crowded than usual this week. Edinburgh University has given all of its 7,000 staff pedometers in the hope that they will...
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Forgotten anyone?
Peep was delighted to hear the Conservatives were promising a new "partnership with the professions" this week. Much was said about valuing teachers, but not a word about academics. That is until...
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James Lovelock: Have we passed the point of no return?
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH In cinemas nationwide from September 15 Book by Al Gore (Bloomsbury, £14.99) Politicians are not often remembered for their concern about climate and the environment....
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Squeeze a bit more from this sponge
Universities will need to understand how the brain really learns before they can truly educate students, argues Jamshed Bharucha Not so long ago, a former student of mine came up to me at a reception...
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New year, new dreams, old admin nightmare
A fresh academic year is about to begin. The Times Higher asks university staff what they are looking forward to - and dreading - in the terms ahead * I'm looking forward to meeting the new intake of...