Females fail in power game
WOMEN are failing to take a share of the power in academic institutions, remaining subject to decisions made mostly by men. A snapshot of universities and colleges shows that more than 40 per cent...
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Campus cuts drink times
Like their counterparts at many other United States universities, administrators at the University of North Carolina have become exasperated over alcohol abuse by students. A drunken undergraduate...
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Full-fee courses offered to homestudents
Australia's three largest universities have each decided to offer home students access to full-fee courses for the first time next year - at a cost of up to Aus$100,000 (Pounds 50,000) for some...
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Fighting talk on tabloid scholars
The war of words over university publishing is hotting up. Denouncing what he calls the "tabloid scholarship" of the university presses, an English professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, has...
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Disclosure plea on PhDs
The PhD productivity of graduate school professors should be made a matter of public record in the light of the huge variation in the number of students faculty members guide towards their doctorates...
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Research cuts dash eastern promise
GOVERNMENT funds for collaborative research between Germany and the former Eastern Bloc have been slashed. The German Research Society (DFG), which administers the country's science funding, has cut...
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Italy suffers doctor epidemic
THE ITALIAN federation of medical registrars has asked medical schools to halt enrolments for a year to combat a massive surplus of doctors. Aldo Pagni, the organisation's president, said there were...
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Bayrou ends reform marathon
A FRENCH university reform package has finally been adopted at the end of a marathon consultation process first launched after student protests in October 1995. However the measures were trimmed to...
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Poor relations fight for title
GERMAN fachhochschulen want the right to market themselves internationally as "universities" because, they claim, people outside Germany do not understand that they are fully-fledged higher education...
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Death march
(Photograph) - Death march: Kenyan university students took to the streets in protest at the shooting of Antony Chege (seen in the portrait), awould-be student killed while fleeing arrest in Nairobi...
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University Inc. gets down to business
The incorporation of the University of Malaya will mean key academic and non-academic staff will need expertise in corporate planning, investment analysis, portfolio management and managing business...
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Student leader murdered
The murder of a radical student leader in India's eastern state of Bihar has provoked countrywide protests leading to confrontations between police and protesters. Chandrashekkar Prasad was a former...
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Kabul re-opens for men
Kabul University, which reopened last month with neither women students nor lecturers, has a new president. Maulavi Pir Mohammad Rohani is a staunch member of the Islamic Taliban movement, which...
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Memo to academics in the House
Scratch an academic and you will find a politician in the making. The THES has recorded that nearly 200 of those standing as candidates in the general election next Thursday have worked in higher...
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Vote for Blair but mind your backs
This is the last THES before the election. Our polls show most academics voting Labour, with a fifth preferring the Liberal Democrats and only 10 per cent voting Tory. These votes will not turn on...