HotDocs push thesis contract
A confederation of research student associations in France has proposed students strike a "thesis contract" with the education ministry in an attempt to alleviate some of the trials and tribulations...
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The world cuisine of borderless knowledge
John Daniel sets the scene for the 'Universities in the 21st Century' conference in Singapore next week This conference takes place at a time when many countries are showing an increasing similarity...
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'Wrong ideas' are wrong
Jennie Bristow (THES, August 2) argues that the National Union of Students's decision to ban Hizb-ut Tahrir is anti-Islamic and ultimately anti-religious. She suggests that the boycott came about...
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Red herring from Mars
The fossils found in a meteorite from Mars by United States scientists do not prove there is life there - and even if there is, they do not tell us how life began, according to a British meteorite...
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Sports pledge
Oxford University has reiterated pledges to replace sports facilities under threat from its planned Pounds 20-million business school. Oxford's external affairs director said that the school, which...
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Cold home comfort in job hunt
Students who stay in their "home" region to attend university are more likely to be unemployed after graduating, according to statistics released today. The unemployment rate for first-degree...
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Summer semester trials
This summer just two institutions, the University of Luton and La Sainte Union College of 糖心Vlog, are running summer semesters. What was once feared as the first step towards a radically...
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Lexicon scotches myth of alligators in the subway
Smokers do not burden the health service, green voters do more damage to the environment than other people, and there are no alligators in the sewers of New York. This, anyway, is what statisticians...
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Resign and let the market reign
In the second of our open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Robert Skidelsky (left) advises Sir Ron to resign and argues that the Government should continue to starve...
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'Wrong ideas' are wrong
We were disappointed to see the piece by Jennie Bristow from the University of Sussex portrayed as a student view point on the sensitive issue of extremism on campus. Ms Bristow is not a...
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Soton bid to rescue Athens campus
Southampton Institute is gearing up for a costly recruitment drive in a last-ditch attempt to save its loss-making Athens campus. Only a fivefold increase in student numbers will ensure that its...
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Cost row
The Further Education Funding Council has disputed Government estimates of cost differences between schools and colleges. Responding to Department for Education and Employment figures comparing how...
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Southerners travel to study
Britain is a divided country when it comes to educating its students More than half of applicants accepted for higher education from Wales chose to stay in Wales and 91 per cent of those from...
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Welsh-tongued nurses on wane
Welsh-speaking school leavers are choosing not to study at Bangor University school of nursing, a decision which could have serious implications for the future of health care in the Welsh heartland....
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Rectors enjoy honeymoon
Three months into office, relations between Spain's right-wing government and higher education leaders seem to be running smooth despite initial uncertainty about what was in store for universities....