V-cs seek to simplify indicators
Australian vice chancellors have rejected new quality checks proposed by the federal Higher Education Council and have called for a single, simple set of performance indicators that might be used to...
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Buthelezi backs disputed new bill
South Africa's controversial higher education bill was due to be placed before the National Assembly last week. The African National Congress's dominance assures its easy passage despite a failure to...
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Lecturers regard research as their top priority
LECTURERS have failed to respond to pressure from United States legislators and fee-paying students to devote as much time and effort to teaching as to research, according to a new study. Research...
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Italy in EU dock over ban
The European Commission is being called upon to take further action against Italy after 1,500 foreign-language teaching staff were excluded from the National University Council elections due to be...
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Intakes squeezed to aid jobless medics
Germany plans to cut the number of medical students by 20 per cent in an attempt to tackle high unemployment among doctors and to improve the quality of medical training. Health Minister Horst...
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Initiation rites close top school
A PRESTIGIOUS grande ecole has been forced to close two of its centres in a French education ministry clampdown on abusive initiation rites. The director of the Arts et Metiers grande ecole closed...
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Usurped rector loses ungracefully
The battle to head Rome's La Sapienza University, Europe's largest university, has ended with the defeat of Giorgio Tecce, 73, the autocratic and controversial rector who has ruled Europe's most...
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Ex-colonial club fails education test
The crush barriers and unfamiliar national flags have gone. Edinburgh's citizens can now reclaim their streets from the invasion of Commonwealth leaders and their entourages that they anticipated for...
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Paramedic skills for the 21st century
I JOINED the Ambulance Service in the 1960s when treatment given by officers to patients was very mechanical and skills-based. In the 1980s paramedics were given increased responsibility, both to...
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Fighting over a limited cake
THESE are troubled times for UK higher education, though not on the scale suffered in Nigeria. The government's fees policy became further entangled this week with the decision to give Scottish and...
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The fiscal burden Dearing did not consider
Graduates have always paid for their degrees - and for many of the subsidies enjoyed by the rest of the population. Timothy Curtin argues that the graduate tax scheme is a con THE Dearing report's...
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Excellence into equality does go
If Cambridge is to keep its college fees it must admit more state school students, Anne Campbell argues MY FELLOW MP Phil Woolas argues that new Labour is not against excellence but adds that Labour...
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Maths views don't add up
Professional mathematicians, scientists and engineers have plenty of important issues to discuss with a government that might have been expected to bring fresh thinking to higher education and...
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Excellence has to be elite
It is regrettable when politicians use superficial and populist rhetoric to advance views concerning serious public policy. On the subject of Oxbridge receiving Pounds 2,000 a head extra in funding,...
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Courting controversy
David Balding is wrong to suppose that Bayesian probability theory presents the only satisfactory method for reasoning about factual uncertainties in courts of law (THES, October 24). This is like...