Co-ops now pay dividends
Old rivals in the Northeast are sinking their differences and embarking on joint ventures in a bid to make an international impact. In our latest regional focus, THES reporters examine an outbreak of...
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Shipping news
Old rivals in the Northeast are sinking their differences and embarking on joint ventures in a bid to make an international impact. In our latest regional focus, THES reporters examine an outbreak of...
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Tyne fog clears
Old rivals in the Northeast are sinking their differences and embarking on joint ventures in a bid to make an international impact. In our latest regional focus, THES reporters examine an outbreak of...
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Newcastle brown and gown
Old rivals in the Northeast are sinking their differences and embarking on joint ventures in a bid to make an international impact. In our latest regional focus, THES reporters examine an outbreak of...
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Raking in support that puts navel gazing into the shade
Outsiders are being persuaded that field research must have practical benefits for communities When Johan Pottier began research on food crises in East Africa he was determined to break with past...
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Dawn of a partnership
Outsiders are being persuaded that field research must have practical benefits for communities The world recognises that Africanist expertise is stored in British universities. Keith Hart calls for...
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Trials in a two-way chemistry
Outsiders are being persuaded that field research must have practical benefits for communities In the chemistry department, on the stiflingly hot campus of Dar-es-Salaam University in Tanzania,...
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Back to the blackboard
Unesco is helping African leaders map out a mission for higher education in the continent. Wachira Kigotho reports This week leaders of African governments and universities held a crucial meeting in...
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Urging a natural enmity
Biological pest control is backing the farmers' struggle against those age-old adversaries, mites, locusts and mealybugs. Tunde Fatunde reports One of the world's leading centres for biological...
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Mine is an ecosystem
Eco-rehabilitation, finds David Jobbins, is refurbishing Zimbabwe's old mining sites Western multi-nationals have wreaked severe environmental damage across swathes of sub-Saharan Africa in a search...
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Privates in Tanzania
Education shortfalls in Tanzania are about to be filled by non-state bodies, says Wachira Kigotho With only three state universities - the University of Dar-es-Salaam, the Open University of Tanzania...
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Be bold, face the fray fully armed
This week the new higher education single quality agency finally staggered formally into operation, though it still has no chief executive or full complement of board members. The THES has long...
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Patient Africa's time has come
It is ironic that as communications become easier and faster, the West's knowledge of Africa seems to diminish. The continent impinges on Western consciousness only at times of crisis - during wars,...
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Time to defend UK courses in other realms
A recently circulated British Council report points out that there are more than 1,200 private colleges operating in Israel, offering qualifications validated by foreign universities. Britain is now...
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Good news from Soton
THERE ARE many people working at Southampton Institute and elsewhere who believe that your recent coverage of the institute has been unduly one-sided. The front-page article (THES, March 21) only...