College gambling under scrutiny
BOSTON A US congressional commission has recommended banning gambling on college and amateur sports because of scandals involving student gamblers and athletes. The commission also proposed raising...
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Renewal hangs on fragile truce
PRISTINA Ethnic hatred simmers beneath efforts to reconstruct the University of Pristina An independent international rector to lead the University of Pristina into its uncertain future and a...
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Spin will protect Scottish postgrads
The latest by-product of political devolution north of the border is a network that aims to improve the status of postgraduate students, writes Olga Wojtas. A meeting of postgraduate delegates, held...
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Demand for health checks after asbestos dust scare
Hundreds of staff and students at Cardiff University could have been exposed to potentially lethal asbestos dust throughout the past five years, trade union Unison said this week. The university last...
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Strike threat as Hull cuts costs
Hull University is facing industrial action this winter after announcing plans to make 110 out of a total of 142 cleaners redundant to cut costs. A university spokeswoman said the move was...
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Why choose a life on ocean waves?
Jennifer Currie reports on why so many students apply to join University Royal Naval Units. Joining a university society that expressly forbids drinking games, embarrassing forfeits and other...
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College libraries brought to book
In the fifth of our surveys on student life, Alan Thomson finds that students are disenchanted with poor computer facilities and inadequate libraries. If there was one thing that annoyed the majority...
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Malcolm Wicks
It is one thing to study the system, another to become part of it and quite another to care enough to try to change it. But Malcolm Wicks, 52, appointed an education minister in last week's reshuffle...
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Glittering prizes
King's College, London, has elected as fellows for 1999: Sir David Goldberg, professor of psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry; Barry Gough, professor of history and assistant dean of arts and...
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Cause for complaints
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals announced this week that, in keeping with the Dearing deadline, all universities now have student complaints and appeals procedures in place. Eagle-...
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Education hope for Namibia's first nation peoples
The San (Bushmen), who have lived in Namibia for more than 11,000 years, are among the world's oldest surviving hunter-gatherers. Despite the strides that have been made in Namibian education since...
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Astana
Officials from Kazakhstan's ministry of science and higher education face probable prosecution for spending 1.3 million tenge (Pounds 6,295) to refurbish its lavatories when education spending is...
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Bologna
A national survey by the Bologna-based inter-university network Almamater found that only 1.5 per cent of architecture students last year completed their degree courses in the required time, compared...
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Correction
It was stated in last week's THES that Plymouth University is owed Pounds 500,000 by student debtors. It is, in fact, Portsmouth University that is owed this sum. We apologise for this error.
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Cutting edge
Plants are being genetically engineered to tolerate drought and resist crop virus to boost food output in sub-Saharan Africa A recent paper on world food trends estimates that sub-Saharan Africa will...