Big demand for English lessons
STUDENTS in South Korea are learning more about the west as part of their country's Saegaewha, or "Greater Globalisation", programme. English language, western business and other international...
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Chinese defend scientist spy
A Taiwan-born scientist sentenced to a year in a California community corrections facility after admitting he spied for China was the subject of "persecution" by the justice department, according to...
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Protesters offered peace talks
WEEKS of demonstrations have forced the Indonesian government to offer a national-level dialogue with student representatives. General Wiranto, defence and security minister, and armed forces...
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Kenyans turn to Britain for skills
KENYAN students are increasingly interested in British universities as an escape from resource-starved local universities with their overworked lecturers and limited learning facilities. They also...
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Misspelling doctrine
Rumours abound of falling standards in higher education but surely there is one word the politically aware student should learn to spell before you can say conspiracy. Sadly not. The main NUS...
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Access debate divides academics
A decision to raise entry requirements for most students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has provoked debate among academics. Opponents of the move point out that universities are already...
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Fact file
The Office of National Statistics report on gross domestic expenditure on research and development 1996 shows that: * Pounds 14.4 billion -1.94 per cent of national gross domestic product - was spent...
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Art historians attack funding bias
MORE than 50 art historians have protested to Italian university minister Luigi Berlinguer that their research spending has been cut in favour of computer technology projects. They claim that in 1997...
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From Russia with secrets
THE police guards at the gloomy entrance to the Russian State Archives in central Moscow may be armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and protected by bullet-proof vests, but foreign researchers have...
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Utrecht inspired by Oxbridge example
Oxbridge-style tutorials are part of Utrecht University's radical new approach to learning, inspired by a 17th-century English botanist. The rethink comes at a time when funding cuts have led to...
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Death of wrestlers leads to new training rules
North America THE deaths of three young wrestlers have forced the organisation that governs American intercollegiate athletes to crack down on risky training methods that were widely used to meet...
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Brown brainchild blighted at birth
The University for Industry was launched again this week. The first obvious thing about it is that it is no university. It is designed to trawl the highways and byways, using all modern means of...
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Get the drugs debate rolling
When Andrew Lockley wrote in The THES last week that he had been, in his own words, "an evil drug dealer", we did not identify the university he was attending though he decided to sign his article....
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Senates face emasculation
The intention of the Quality Assurance Agency "would have the effect of moving the higher education sector from a position in which academic standards are determined by each institution acting...
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Knight in his armour
In an era in which the commitment to academic freedom is too often seen as a hindrance to effective managerialism in our universities, it is refreshing to find a vice-chancellor - Peter Knight of the...