What are foundation degrees?
Educationists and employers arestruggling to define the nature and role of foundation degrees, writes Alan Thomson. The group designing the degrees held its first meeting last Friday. Its first task...
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Georgia is over-educated
TBILISI State university rectors in Georgia are seeking tighter laws on higher education accreditation in the wake of a boom in private colleges since the collapse of communism. Since 1991, more than...
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Racist web links land Swiss professor in court
BONN An academic who heads the computer systems institute at Zurich Technical University faces criminal proceedings for providing links to neo-Nazi, revisionist and racist websites from his...
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Thai MPs told to study for degrees
BANGKOK Poorly educated Thai MPs are dashing from parliamentary meetings to evening classes at a Bangkok university to study politics. New rules designed to end vote-buying, reduce the power of...
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Student porn 'mockumentary' is halted
BOSTON A student film-maker who planned to make a pornographic "mockumentary" about sex on campus ran into trouble over a "get paid to get laid" message advertised around the campus of Wesleyan...
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Higher education squeezed as Canadian income tax is cut
MONTREAL Canada's higher education sector and other hungry social programmes last month lost out to personal income tax reductions in the federal budget. Finance minister Paul Martin announced C$58...
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College heads resolve dispute
Melbourne The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee last week settled a long-running dispute with the Copyright Agency Limited over payments worth more than A$30 million (Pounds 12 million) to...
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Setting the scene
(Photograph) - Dana Pinto of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design with her model for Urban Odyssey at an exhibition of the work of scenography graduates at the Diorama Gallery in London
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Swapping the ghetto for the gown
Last week Alison Goddard revealed how universities are failing bright young, full-time students from poor backgrounds. This week she asks if they are doing all they can to help mature, part-time...
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Pristina
A German academic, Michael Daxner, has become the UN-appointed international administrator of Pristina University and its associated colleges. Professor Daxner says he will work to help make the...
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Montevideo
Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle has demonstrated his commitment to stronger collaboration with the state university, seen by his predecessor as a hostile bloc, by appointing three professors as the...
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Quality boss mars new Labour vision
Quality chief John Randall has raised serious doubts over ministers' plans to expand higher education provision through further education colleges, claiming that quality failings are "...
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Part-timers boost figures
There were just over a quarter of a million students in higher education in Scotland in 1998-99, an increase of about 3.4 per cent over the previous year. The growth stems almost entirely from an...
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1,400 extra places for Cumbria expansion
Expansion plans drawn up jointly by Cumbria College of Art and Design, Carlisle's St Martin's College, the University of Central Lancashire, and the University of Northumbria have been boosted by...
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New crime institute in memory of Jill Dando
(Photograph) - An institute of crime science is planned at University College London in memory of Jill Dando (below), the BBC presenter who was murdered on her doorstep 11 months ago. Combining...