World view: Numbers are irresistible
Women are overtaking men in universities, and some men are worried, writes Sheldon Rothblatt Over its 800 years, university history contains startling continuities. While much of the medieval or...
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Campus overhaul as Taiwan loosens state strings
Taiwan's first free elections and the appointment of a new education minister in May have speeded up reform of the country's higher education system. Even before the change of government, the country...
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Colleges urged to give men a break
The proportion of male undergraduates at American universities has fallen to 45 per cent, prompting calls for special help - including waivers of admission standards - to increase numbers in the same...
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New Zealand spends £1.6m to ward off loan debacle
The New Zealand government is to spend an extra NZ$6 million (£1.6 million) on the processing of student loans and allowances in a bid to avoid the debacle that dogged university and polytechnic...
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Scanner fingers students
Thai masters students are giving the thumbs-down to lectures before they even begin, thanks to the introduction of fingerprint scanners. Thai universities are much stricter than British ones when it...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Most of the new science centres, funded by the National Lottery through the Millennium Commission, are beating their attendance targets. David Pilling writes that this week's High...
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Atheist attacks church attitude
One of Italy's most eminent philosophers, Paolo Flores d'Arcais, has jumped into the controversy over the attitude of the Catholic church to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants. Professor...
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Bosnian Croats see merger as threat to identity
Bosnian Croat students in Mostar have staged protests against plans to amalgamate its two universities - one on the west bank of the Neretva river, with mainly Croatian students, and one on the east...
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European students secure Lang's backing for a role in making policy
A demand for a stronger student voice at the higher levels of European higher education decision-making was due to be presented to European Union education ministers in Brussels this week. Jack Lang...
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Protest ban fails to deter Arabs
The decision by Israel's university heads to ban political activity on campuses in the first week of the academic year failed to deter the country's Israeli Arab students from their long-term...
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More trainee teachers drop out under Labour
Dropout rates among postgraduate trainee teachers increased dramatically in the first two years of Labour's administration, according to the latest figures. The proportion of students who started...
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Soap star humbly resigns rectorship
Television star Ross Kemp, the student-elected rector of Glasgow University, has resigned four weeks after a no-confidence vote from the Students' Representative Council. Students questioned Mr Kemp'...
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Accountable body to oversee genetic data
* An independent body will be set up by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust to look after the proposed UK population genetic database. The move follows the first round of public...
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Royal Society presses for law on stem cells
The Royal Society has called for a change in the law to allow researchers to carry out human embryo research to develop stem cell therapies. Its call was condemned by the pressure group Campaign...
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Heinz has bean and gone as trophies top 58
The University of Warwick has become such a successful venue for conferences that it is having trouble finding a home for all the hospitality trophies it has won. Its latest award for "hospitality...