Travelling payer
Go-getters in Dutch higher education are to get a bonus. Jo Ritzen, education minister, has allotted Fl1 million (Pounds 400,000) for an extra year's study abroad for the best students. The move is...
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Research fears as Spain cuts funds
Spain's new government is to cut education spending by 0.78 per cent cut as part of reductions intended to slash state expenditure by 4.5 per cent this year. How the cuts will be shared between...
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Mature way to learn
I was surprised by the "mature students" article reported in the (THES, June 7). It seemed to be the opposite of my experience as an undergraduate. I found tutorials, where the class was made up of...
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Crick and mind over natter
One theory of consciousness rules supreme, Tony Durham reports, while readers reply to one scientist's views. I can sympathise with Francis Crick's irritation that progress in consciousness research...
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L-plate barristers 'deserve better'
Trainee barristers deserve more money and better safeguards on the quality of their apprenticeships, according to a Bar Council report published this week. It recommends a minimum grant of Pounds 5,...
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A-level takers on the wane
The proportion of 18-year-olds taking A levels is declining, Universities and Colleges Admissions Service chief executive Tony Higgins said this week. Only 65 per cent of university applicants now...
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Paisley tunes into Skye groat song
Paisley University has become the first Scottish university to offer Gaelic speaking students the chance to study the Gaelic economy as part of their degree. The new option in Paisley's BA in...
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Bank chooses nuclear home
A casual observer walking along Lomonosovsky Prospect where it skirts Moscow State University's leafy campus could be forgiven for taking a second look at the large, new logo spread across the top of...
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Egghead attack on minister
The Polish minister of national education Jerzy Wiatr was hit on the head with an egg as he attempted to discuss higher education reform with the students of the country's oldest university, the...
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Suffragette citing
Brian Harrison (THES, June 7) and I have genuine differences of view about the interpretation of sources relating to the prison experiences of the suffragettes in Edwardian Britain. I am glad that he...
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Crick and mind over natter
One theory of consciousness rules supreme, Tony Durham reports, while readers reply to one scientist's views. Francis Crick warns that if we are not careful with our approaches to consciousness, it...
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V-c ranks split in cuts fight
Australian vice chancellors are struggling to maintain a common front against threatened cuts in higher education spending. Despite a plea for unity by Fay Gale, president of their national committee...
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College's ad food for row
Two further education colleges are hotly disputing which is the best in England. The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered Nottingham's Clarendon College to withdraw a brochure describing it as...
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Queen's castle dogged by debt
A Canadian university is divided over the potential sale of an unusual asset - a 15th-century castle in the south of England. Few universities in Canada own property that is older than the country...
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Students told to hurry degrees
The Netherlands' controversial study finance scheme has come under renewed fire from students and universities. Their targets are changes to the 1993 legislation that links grants to performance. The...