Funding by numbers provokes Greek university fury
Greek university chiefs have reacted angrily to education secretary George Papandreou's suggestion that future funding of universities should be based on student numbers and that teaching staff be...
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Dead Clever? Terminally unfunny
I have never before encountered such a lot of malodorous claptrap (Dead Clever by Ted Nield, THES, July 19). The characters are crudely drawn: Toni in particular appears to be the two-dimensional...
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Wood that they had their just desserts
I am deeply conscious of the high honour and distinction of being selected to provide a text for a Laurie Taylor column, but please allow me to point out that I am not at present vice chancellor of...
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Onwards and upwards: a corner of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of 糖心Vlog
(Photograph) - Onwards and upwards: a corner of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of 糖心Vlog, which is one of the few institutions praised in a report on the greening of universities for its...
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Debts mount up
The Student Loans Company had received more than 1.8 million applications for loans by mid-1995 and Pounds 1.8 billion of repayments was still outstanding, according to a National Audit Office report...
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Unwelcome mail
In an antidote to our "alumni to be proud of" series, Antithesis reports that Strathclyde University has one alumnus about whom it is certain not to boast. A copy of the University Review, sent to...
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Ulster gains associate
The Northern Ireland Hotel and Catering College's announcement that it is to become an associate college of Ulster University is being seen as a tangible vote of confidence in the prospects of a...
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Prison sentence for flag burning
A Belarusian pro-democracy activist, Andrey Romasheuski, deputy chairman of the Beer-Lovers' party, has received a two-year suspended prison sentence in connection with a student demonstration in...
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Professors go back to schoolroom
University professor Isak Frumin spends most of his time at school. An associate professor at Krasnoyarsk State University, Siberia, Dr Frumin, a mathematician, is also head teacher of Russia's first...
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Don't train 'em, just get 'em out
Anna Tobin (THES, July 26) highlights a pressing problem in higher education: the inability of some academics to teach. If the lack of a teaching qualification is the problem, why are there so many...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. Refreshed by a weekend away from my computer, I am awoken as ever by the noise of trucks passing my bedroom window on their way to Spitalfields market in east London. Even the double glazing...
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Unrest follows arrests
A new wave of ethnic protest has broken out in Skopje, capital of Macedonia, following the sentencing of five academics of the unofficial Albanian-language University of Tetovo to terms of...
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Smelling of roses: David Aukland
(Photograph) - Smelling of roses: David Aukland, graduate dean in the University of Manchester's faculty of engineering and science has devised a system that can translate cutting-edge research into...
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Malaysia investigates franchise bribe claims
The Malaysian government is facing calls for a public inquiry into the marketing practices of institutions keen to sell overseas franchise courses to the country's students. The inquiry could have...
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Principal named
The principal of Harper Adams Agricultural College, Shropshire, has been replaced. In a surprise move, Graham McConnell left his post by mutual agreement with the college governors last week and...