Athens
Greece's new education secretary, Petros Efthymiou, has called on the academic community to enter an open dialogue to find solutions for the problems besetting Greek higher education.
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Padua
The university of Padua is leading Italy's universities in an online project, Thesis, aimed at eliminating plagiarism of theses by both students and professors. The universities of Bologna, Siena,...
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Stone wall
(Photograph) - Bolivian university students armed with slingshots clash with police in La Paz in five days of protests that led to the declaration of a state of emergency and suspension of...
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Scrutiny agency bullishly defended
The universities' quality watchdog has mounted a robust defence of the Quality Assurance Agency, telling MPs that the agency's critics are mostly "elitists", writes Phil Baty. In a pre-emptive strike...
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Student shortage leads to job cuts
Napier University fears it will lose up to Pounds 3 million in the coming year because of problems in student recruitment and retention, writes Olga Wojtas. It is aiming to shed 55 of its 1,800 posts...
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Greased lightning
(Photograph) - Students and staff at Glasgow Caledonian University are developing a biodiesel car that runs on sunflower oil, or even chip shop oil. They displayed a working model at the Edinburgh...
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Don's Diary
Monday Wake up in state of disorientation in the Transylvanian town of Sibiu. Turn over and rumple Terry Eagleton's Illusions of Postmodernism, which appears to have served as a pillow. Join Mark...
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Buenos Aires
Argentina's national deaf-mutes' association has opened the country's first school of Argentinian sign language in Buenos Aires, the Jose Antonio Terry institute.
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Labour is off-target on FE
The government's further education policy faced failure this week when it emerged that student numbers are set to fall for a second year running, after 20 years of growth. Despite ministers' plans to...
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Ethics code for student advisers
A strict code of ethics for international student advisers has been drafted amid concern that United Kingdom universities are exploiting fee-paying overseas students. Ukcosa, the UK Council for...
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Draft rules set to complete QAA's code of practice
The last nine quality control rules of a list of more than 150 that universities will have to adhere to have been set down by the Quality Assurance Agency, writes Phil Baty. The QAA's code of...
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Students angered by tuition fees success claims
Student leaders were angered this week after a government minister used small rises in student numbers as proof that its policy on tuition fees policy and scrapping grants is working, writes Alan...
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Fears as skills bill debate is planned
MPs look set to debate the role of universities amid fears that the government is wrong to exclude higher education from its Learning and Skills Bill. Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks...
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Degrees boosted by apprenticeships
Students will be offered the chance of work-based apprenticeships from this autumn in a bid to produce employees who combine university-level knowledge with business sense and generic key skills,...
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Abolition of tuition fees leads to rush of applicants for Scottish places
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has welcomed the dramatic rise in the number of Scottish higher education applications as stemming from the Scottish Executive...