Kiwis toy with best model
RADICAL plans to change the way New Zealand higher education is funded have been set out in a government green paper published this month. A purchase model, where the government "buys" the places it...
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Plan to train youth jobless angers state leaders
A FEUD has erupted between Australia's federal and state governments over funding vocational education, writes David Bruce. The battle for the moral high ground has captured the interest of daily...
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Dash for more private cash
AUSTRALIAN universities have taken to privatisation with added zeal since the conservative government led by prime minister John Howard swept into office early last year. Severe cuts in federal...
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Foreign degrees 'not recognised'
FOREIGN universities seeking to promote their courses in India have been told to carry a cautionary note in their prospectuses and application forms warning that their degrees or diplomas are not...
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Students flood scheme
A TEMPORARY job creation scheme to help tackle France's chronic youth unemploymentcrisis has been inundated with candidates - many of them over-qualified students. Within hours of opening, many local...
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Rubbia breaks into the shop
AN ITALIAN Nobel prizewinner who worked at Harvard for 18 years has finally obtained a teaching post in Italy after many years during which he claims to have been left "out in the cold" by the...
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Soros pulls out of Belarus
GEORGE Soros, the Hungarian-born financier who since the collapse of communism has been funding educational, cultural and pro-democracy initiatives in the former communist bloc, has announced the...
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Italy aims research funding at targets
THE ITALIAN government has earmarked 850 billion lire (Pounds 300 million) for scientific research over the next three years. The funds have been assigned to 29 "targets" for applied research...
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Old hatreds haunt meeting
A CONFERENCE in Lithuania held to mark the bicentenary of one of the greatest Talmudic scholars in Jewish history could have been expected to strengthen scholarly and diplomatic ties between...
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Pounds 400m equipment plea
More than Pounds 400 million is needed urgently to update teaching equipment in English and Welsh universities, according to a report out this week. Backed by the higher education funding councils...
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Debts double in FE colleges
DEBT levels in further education have almost doubled over two years, a financial guide warned this week. This year's further education financial yearbook from Noble Financial Publishing, part of the...
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Research sums 'wrong'
The Dearing report's analysis of research issues was seriously inadequate, a leading researcher warned last week. Ron Johnston, professor of geography at Bristol University and former vice chancellor...
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Dewar sounds inclusive note
Olga Wojtas reports from a conference exploring the pitfalls and opportunities for HE in a devolved Scotland Scottish higher education must not become academically isolated from the rest of the...
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Bravehearts wary of drastic acts
Olga Wojtas reports from a conference exploring the pitfalls and opportunities for HE in a devolved Scotland Higher education will have a distinctive role in a renewed Scottish democracy but it...
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Welsh party claims funding shortfall
Plaid Cymru is to call for Welsh universities to be funded at a level per student equal to their English and Scottish counterparts. The party, which won four seats at the general election, meets for...