Madeira rector sparks row over handpicking council
The rector of the University of Madeira has been accused of stifling internal democracy in a row over new rules. Rector Jose Manoel Castanheira da Costa's proposals for changing the university...
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Slovenia stuck on Erasmus
Introduction of Erasmus, the European student mobility programme, in Slovenia is still troubled by a faltering university infrastructure, a lack of internal communication and delays in the European...
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Writers on the wall
(Photograph) - Writers on the wall: onlookers watch as Belgrade University students deliberately defy a new Serb law for which four of their colleagues were jailed for ten days this month. They had...
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A brush with the ink eradicators
As Microsoft strides into the emerging ebook market, Tim Greenhalgh finds the pioneers while Richard Harper and Abigail Sellen look at how new tech alters the way we read. Decades after they first...
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Growth prompts V-cs to go private
The Australian Vice-chancellors' Committee has decided to hive off its internet arm, the Australian Academic Research Network, as a private company to operate the rapidly expanding electronic system...
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Qualified success
The software company Oracle is to give United Kingdom students the opportunity to acquire a Certified Oracle Practitioner qualification as part of their degree course. Universities where the scheme...
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Scout free
The Scout report, a leading US information source on Internet resources, is now mirrored at Bristol University (www.ilrt.bris. ac.uk/mirrors/ scout/report/). In return, the University of Wisconsin-...
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Reading, writhing and arithmetic
In The Uncommon Reader, the literary theorist George Steiner described how the nature of reading has changed over the past few centuries. He illustrated this by examining the depiction of reading in...
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Wanted: strategy to meet yearning for learning
Ensuring access to education is crucial to a lifelong learning strategy so it is time for joined-up thinking says Chris Hughes. The education world is buzzing in anticipation of an extra 500,000...
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Lessons after the cavalry's dust has settled
What lessons are to be drawn from the debacle at Thames Valley University? First, is to note that honourable and regrettably rare event: the prompt resignation of vice-chancellor, Mike Fitzgerald....
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Beards and claret
There is no financial crisis in the Association of University Teachers (Diary, THES, November 13). Like all sensible organisations, we plan for the future. A significant element of that has been the...
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Beards and claret
A whole article about the respective images of the AUT and lecturers' union Natfhe ("Unions divided by their similarities", THES, November 13) and you still miss the essence of the thing: Natfhe has...
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Time to abolish the study of God
Should theologians believe in god ("Do academic theologians have to believe in God?", THES, November 13)? Should psychiatrists be mad? Religions are systems of irrational beliefs and to suggest that...
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Time to abolish the study of God
As a rationalist, I thought I would never agree with Graham Ward, but I cannot but concur wholeheartedly with his conclusion that "no Christian non-believer can be a Christian theologian". If...
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Time to abolish the study of God
The comments made by Graham Ward and John Millbank suggest we do not have a commonly agreed definition of what theology is, and until we do how can we begin to tackle the question of faith and...