Chancellors fight state's private plan
University chiefs are on a collision course with the Greek education ministry over private universities. The disclosure of a ministry secret document containing plans to found private universities...
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Franchise inquiry looms at Swansea
Academic staff at Swansea Institute of 糖心Vlog recorded a vote of no confidence in principal Gerald Stockdale and two other senior managers this week after weeks of publicity surrounding the...
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Natfhe warns of autumn unrest
A fresh wave of autumn strikes looms in further education after lecturers' unions finalised their response to an employers' offer containing "unacceptable strings". A pay rise of 2.1 per cent has...
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Joe N'Danga Koroma
Former military cadet Joe N'Danga Koroma is now looking forward to a career in healing the scars of conflict as opposed to inflicting them. He was heading for a promising career in the Sierra Leone...
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Global votes are queried
British voters are to be compared with electorates around the world as part of the most intensive academic general election study yet. Nearly 10,000 electors will be interviewed as part of the 1997...
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lesson from down under
Amanda Vanstone, Australia's minister responsible for higher education (among much else) has, after only a few months in office, made herself quite a reputation - and not one to envy. The former...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. Caught between book index crisis and long-postponed visit to Bulgaria. Index crisis because page proofs arrive later than the time mythically set aside for them. My co-author in Brussels was...
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Disability law
Further and higher education colleges must publish details of the facilities they provide for disabled students from next month. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 requires institutions to detail...
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Worry over Wigan's foray in India
The British Council is worried that an ambitious bid by a further education college to establish a chain of distance-learning outposts in India could backfire. Wigan and Leigh College has set up a...
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Queen's swells RC staff intake
Queen's University Belfast has made significant progress towards fair job participation by Roman Catholics and Protestants over the past eight years, new statistics reveal. The university's...
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Sparks fly over British Library costs
A fresh delay and an additional Pounds 15 million price tag have hit the new British Library on top of lingering worries over "defective" electrical cables and its reader capacity. Members of the...
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Cash back for over-26s
The Department of Education in Northern Ireland has reinstated the right of mature students to claim an Older Students Allowance worth up to Pounds 1,070 a year. The DENI originally abolished the...
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Opposition spokesman steps down
The German Social Democrats' parliamentary education spokesman is standing down as a member of the Bundestag after months of disagreement with his party on education policy issues. Peter Glotz said...
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South Bank's Waterloo
My colleague, Mary Davis's understandable distress over the fact that there are to be some academic posts declared redundant at South Bank University (THES Letters, June 21) has led her to...
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Rain dance for France
Joseph Stiglitz, distinguished economist and Nobel laureate, used to say that, in his long experience as a consultant for governments and companies, he had heard over and over again the complaint: "...