Ideas to prevent cultural collision
Olga Wotjas reports from the Society for Research into 糖心Vlog at Heriot-Watt University. British academics may mistake politeness and respect from overseas students as shiftiness and...
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High-tech tips for teachers
Olga Wojtas reports from the Society for Research into 糖心Vlog at Heriot-Watt University. Learning technology can be used as a Trojan horse for change in teaching methods, according to Terry...
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Colleges face 15 per cent cuts
Universities in Canada's most populous province have been dealt a serious blow to their budgets by funding cuts of 15 per cent announced by the Ontario government. The Council of Ontario Universities...
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Free speech row sparked by Internet usage rulings
Free speech guarantees at United States universities and colleges are coming into conflict with demands that students who misuse the Internet be disciplined. The controversy flared with a decision by...
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Sporting types called to account
The United States education department, in a move that threatens to fire up the long-running controversy over sexism in sports, is to require colleges and universities to account publicly for what...
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Three Stooges study more than pie in sky
For a scholar contracted to write two books on The Three Stooges, the epitome of slapstick comedy, Jon Solomon has a surprisingly pessimistic view of cultural life in the United States, writes Tim...
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Bloody battle of enemy institutes
A long-standing feud between two research institutes in St Petersburg has resulted in bloodshed. Vasilii Kyucherev, a senior researcher at the Institute of the Human Brain has sustained severe...
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Oil giant bids for campus
Corporations and multinationals can apply for licenses to set up private universities in Malaysia early in 1996, once legislation has been passed. Applications will be considered immediately after...
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New universities to ease crowding
The Sri Lankan government is to establish three new universities to increase the student intake to 15,000 per year. They will be at Anuradhapura, Ampara and Ratnapura. New faculties are also to open...
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Roger and out
It is fascinating to observe the innocent stance of the Colleges Employers Forum with regard to the concerns of Sir William Stubbs over the "democratic deficit" in governing bodies (THES, December 1...
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Binary code is on the wall
Books are too old-fashioned for today's students so let's give them computers instead, argues Vincent Mitchell. How many times do you hear academics complaining about the difficulty of persuading...
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Research may suffer in clash of two ministers
University rectors in Denmark are concerned that university research will suffer under the widely different plans and ideas of the ministry of education and the ministry of research, both of which...
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Spain links funding to quality
A scheme to assess the quality of university teaching and research has been approved by the Spanish government. Although participation is officially voluntary the findings will influence the amount...
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Term of office
I must ask you to bring to the attention of your readers a factual inaccuracy in Huw Richards's report "Ashworth the player seeks fresh pitch" (THES, December 15). Mr Richards stated that Dr Ashworth...
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Too many profs
Roy Kingham and Richard Andrews (THES, December 1) "doth protest too much" about my dismissal of a professorship being created in a further education college (my letter, November 24). In allocations...