Lettori break ranks
Foreign language teachers struggling for equal treatment with mainstream academics are split over who should represent them. Of the estimated 1,300 lettori employed in Italy's 65 state universities,...
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Survivor presses on with reform
Vasily Strazhev, the Belarussian minister of education, is a political survivor. In a republic where the authoritarian rule of Alexander Lukashenko punishes the slightest dissent, Strazhev, a physics...
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New battle in philosophy war
Mainstream philosophers have blocked the academic career paths of four would-be lecturers from France's leading anti-establishment philosophy department at Paris VIII University. Antagonism between...
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Delhi faces penalties over caste job targets
India'S University Grants Committee is to penalise universities which fail to comply with its policy of positive discrimination in favour of lower-caste teachers. Their grant will be sharply reduced...
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Troubled campus slammed
THE University of Durban-Westville was described as "ungovernable" by former vice chancellor Jairam Reddy on the eve of his departure to head South Africa's national commission on higher education. A...
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Protest at dole swipe
THOUSANDS of Australian university students protested last week at controversial decisions by the federal government to restructure its youth allowance schemes. Under the changes, the student-support...
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US split on year's squeeze
THE traditional American university and college commencement season, with all of the accompanying colour, pomp and ceremony, is in full swing. But try not to blink or you may miss it. College and...
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Readers pick science stories
TWICE as many Australians would prefer to read about science than sport or politics, according to a new survey, writes Geoff Maslen. But while the batting performance of Mark Taylor and the racist...
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Malaysia's intake beats past record
THIS year's intake of students to Malaysian universities reached 47,733, the highest level ever and an increase of 40 per cent over last year, according to education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun...
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When a quiver has little to do with a pen
A MONTREAL psychology student's research may make the earth move for some people - but not in the field of geology. By developing a questionnaire which gathers adjectives that describe orgasm,...
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Need for standards cannot be ignored
Consumers, customers, stakeholders. Whatever word is used - and they are all pretty unattractive to the providers of higher education - power is moving their way. Now that a third of the population...
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Empire's heir in need of a new image
LAST June an independent international survey of Commonwealth studies found that awareness and understanding of the Commonwealth was "truly appalling". Despite the designation of 1997 as the UK Year...
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Beware the 'Ivy League'
Robert May warns against the sloppy thinking which confuses famous names with research capabilities In the sometimes fraught discussion of the United Kingdom's greatly expanded tertiary education...
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Can we handle more of the working class?
Graham Peeke examines the likely consequences of expanding student opportunities in further education A recent report suggested that more working-class students could be attracted to higher education...
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Equality at stake
The outgoing chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association made a despairing and feeble attempt to justify his plans to impose an inappropriate job evaluation system on...