The THES Diary
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In the news
When others were losing their heads over mad cow disease, John Pattison, new director of research and development at the Department of Health, for the most part kept his customary calm. As chair of...
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On the move
Philippa Cordingley, independent researcher and education consultant; Colin Greenhalgh, principal of Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge; Surrinder Kaur, deputy director of nursing at University...
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Next-generation Microsoft
Microsoft has extended its reach into education by joining Internet2, the US-based "next-generation" initiative. As a corporate partner, the company will contribute about Pounds 600,000 in goods and...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia is to increase its student intake to all institutions of higher learning by 10 per cent this year, enabling many able students who were turned down last year to obtain places. Local...
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Florence
Italy's most celebrated literary academy, the Accademia della Crusca, in Florence, risks closure for lack of funds. The Accademia, located in a 16th-century villa, was founded in 1582 by Pietro de'...
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Copenhagen
An information technology college will open in Copenhagen in the autumn of 1999 with a student capacity of over 3,000. At first, 220 students will enrol at what Danish minister of research and...
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Eye witness
Last weekend's elections in Fiji brought defeat for the leader of a military coup that toppled the first Indian-dominated government in 1987 and led to the former colony's exclusion from the...
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Danes attract the brains
A pioneering Danish initiative is daringly taking brain-drain from the arena of the free market forces into the governmental sphere. Denmark is short of engineers, so is eastern Europe. But Denmark...
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Ducati bikes forge links with Italian universities
Ducati, the legendary Italian manufacturer of high-performance motorcycles, is becoming increasingly involved with higher education. The Ducati Museum has been organising lectures for the engineering...
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Rival unions find entente cordiale
Two rival student unions that broke up for ideological reasons 30 years ago have found they have more interests in common than disagreements, and are preparing for reunification. The 700 delegates at...
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Budgetary threat to pay rise
Australian higher education faces another year of cost-cutting and industrial turmoil after the federal government last week rejected the pleas of academics, vice-chancellors and students for more...
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The government has split Aus$10 million between two Australian studies centres
* The government has split Aus$10 million between two Australian studies centres - the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at the University of London and the Centre for Australian and...
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Makerere gets tough with Uganda treasury
Makerere University in Uganda has postponed the admission of 2,000 government-sponsored students until the ministry of finance confirms the funds are available. Last year the university suffered a...
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Argentina shelves cuts
Nationwide protests have forced the Argentine government to shelve plans for drastic cuts to education funding. The budget, drawn up by the government under pressure from the International Monetary...