Literary cash and canons
In the Booker prize, literature, money and PR merge. Judge Valentine Cunningham discusses how the prize shapes our study of fiction The shortlist for the 30th Booker prize is out. After 124 novels,...
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Support, don't just report
The Teacher Training Agency will survive only if it starts being nicer to institutions, says Mike Newby Flicking through the new national performance tables of teacher training colleges, I wondered...
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Beijing
The Chinese government has set up two funds to help rebuild flood-damaged universities, colleges and schools and aid the 8.5 million students affected by floods, which hit the country this summer....
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Iqaluit, North West Territories
An Arctic university is being planned by the Arctic Council, a two-year-old group made up of Canada, the United States, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark/Greenland, Norway, Russia and Finland. The council...
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Bologna
The University of Bologna has set up a "college of excellence" for the 30 most outstanding first-year students each year. The Villa Guastavillani, set in the hills overlooking Bologna, will house an...
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Launch pad
At next week's UK Technology Week in Earl's Court, London, Sheffield Hallam University is launching a masters degree aimed at computer professionals. The MSc Enterprise Network Management course will...
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Brussels
Padraig Flynn, European commissioner for employment and social affairs, has urged the Italian government to resolve the dispute over the rights of foreign language lecturers in Italian universities...
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Boston
Dartmouth College in the United States has joined with Templeton College at Oxford and the HEC School of Management in Paris to offer a course on global business that will literally travel the world...
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When freshers fly the nest
Packing your child off on their first term of university can be an emotional business, as Harvey J. Kaye relates I entered this academic year in a new role - not as a student, not merely as a...
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Vice-chancellors unite to condemn funding policy
Higher education has little to look forward to if the conservative Howard government is re-elected when Australians go to the polls tomorrow. After slashing almost Aus$2 billion (Pounds 670 million)...
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Hollow victory for reading disability student
A United States court has sided with a student who claims she has a reading disability and should have been given extra time to complete the examination for her lawyer's licence. Marilyn Bartlett, a...
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Indonesian protesters back on the streets
Indonesia's students are back on the streets with a new slogan: bring down the price of rice and bring down new president B. J. Habibie. It is just four months since they helped topple President...
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Paris and research get priority for millennium
Expansion is over for France's universities. After a decade of rapid growth they face at least five years of stability. The emphasis will be on developing research and technology, and renovating...
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Phoenix takes a nosedive
Some of the gloss has rubbed off the University of Phoenix, the private university network seen as a threat to United States higher education. The university's parent company, Apollo Group Inc, has...
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Professors refuse to sign up to act
Serbian academics who refuse to accept legislation that has given the government day-to-day control of the universities are risking dismissal from their jobs. A new university act, introduced last...