Protest reprieve for regime
A 100-day suspension of demonstrations by students at Senegal's Cheik Anta Diop University has removed the risk of embarrassing the new regime of president Abdoulaye Wade as delegates converge on...
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Crisis looms as young blood fails to fill high posts
A lack of clear plans to replace East Africa's ageing professors, most of whom are due to retire within ten years, is becoming a major barrier to quality education. It is estimated that 60 per cent...
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Pay gap widens for US faculty
American university faculty enjoyed salary raises above inflation this year for the sixth time in the past seven years, but their pay continues to fall behind that of other highly educated...
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Fees leave Scandanavians cold
Senior civil servants from all of Scandinavia's ministries of higher education are agreed that the time is not ripe for the introduction of university tuition fees in the region. Gathered in Iceland...
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Students target private tuition
Italy's main student union has launched a national campaign against advertising by Italy's largest private tuition firm, which uses Alex Del Piero, star player of Juventus football club, and...
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Here's looking at you, squid
(Photograph) - Research students and scientists were on hand to explain the mysteries of the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it at an exhibition at Southampton University's Oceanography Centre....
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Five projects share Pounds 462,000
Tim Greenhalgh on the BT ÌÇÐÄVlog Awards, co-sponsored by THES. Two events on the same day last week at British Telecom's London headquarters underlined the breathless pace of cultural change...
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Student insurers rebrand to cover scandalous past
France's biggest student social insurance society, tainted by fraud and corruption and the subject of official investigations for the past two years, has been relaunched with a new name and statutory...
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Historian pays the price of denial
Darijusz Ratajczak, a Polish history lecturer, has been dismissed from his post at the Opole University and banned from academic teaching for three years. A university disciplinary commission ruled...
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There is still time to mend a flawed government bill
It is becoming apparent that the government's decision to exclude higher education from plans to restructure post-16 education through the Learning and Skills bill is a serious shortcoming (page 4)....
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Members should be on the USS's conscience
Andrew Oswald's Soapbox article last week calling on the Universities Supperannuation Scheme to increase members' pensions has attracted a flurry of support (Letters, opposite). Staff at universities...
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Global vision takes seed in plantation schools
Was the world declaration on Education For All more than a vision? asks Angela Little on the eve of the declaration's review Next week in Dakar, Senegal, 900 educationists, donors, non-governmental...
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Cash call for key science initiatives
Extra government funds will be channelled into three major science initiatives in sustainable land use, post-genomics and information technology if advice from the research councils is followed. The...
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Asmal slams market motive of global allies
South African education minister Kader Asmal has launched an attack on "global universities" that see developing countries as no more than new markets. Delivering the address at a four-day conference...
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Bidding for funds too heavy a burden, Hefce says
Funding chiefs are to recognise the burden of accountability faced by institutions. A report commissioned by the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England will suggest ways of rationalising...