Research
Changes in both research ratings and the volume of staff identified in last year's research assessment exercise, combined with new methods of calculating the pots of money available for each subject...
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Non-formula funding
Total non-formula funding for 1997/98 is Pounds 306 million, including Pounds 16 million which would previously have been allocated under DevR. This money will cover the same kinds of institutions...
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Maximum aggregate student numbers
This is the maximum number of home or EU award-holding students each institution is contracted to recruit. Overall student numbers supported by the teaching grant next year will be roughly the same...
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Trade unionists branded as campus security risk
LECTURERS who led the banned Academic Staff of Universities have been labelled "security risks" on the two campuses of the University of Nigeria at Nsukka. The authorities have used the term to...
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Rwandan scholars 'conspired'
THE RWANDAN massacres of 1994 were far from simple explosions of tribal hatred. The intellectual basis for mass murder was laid by university scholars trained in the United States and Britain, it is...
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Sector's shower of gifts
Canada's shell-shocked higher education sector has gratefully accepted a host of gifts from a government expected to call an election soon. Liberal finance minister Paul Martin has unveiled the...
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Melbourne plans full fees
The University of Melbourne has become the first Australian university to unveil plans to charge some home undergraduates full-cost fees of up to Aus$22,000 (Pounds 11,000) a year. If plans by Alan...
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Prizewinning abuser jailed
Nobel prize winner Daniel Carleton Gadjusek will spend a year behind bars after pleading guilty to two counts of sex abuse on a boy he adopted from Micronesia, in the Pacific Ocean. Professor...
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Second sex centre set to be first to go
Academics at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal are feeling very much like the "second sex" now that their feminist research centre has been targeted for closure. Concordia University in...
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Thailand to get 'western' university
British and Australian universities face a new competitor for students from the burgeoning economies of Southeast Asia. Academics and administrators from North Carolina's Duke University are helping...
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Same-sex university to last 100 days
MADELEINE Albright, Benazir Bhutto and Hillary Clinton all graduated from one: now German academics have come closer to creating a women's university to produce the leaders of tomorrow. A women's...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a woman with a classically musical surname: "A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: 'Allez vous-en!...
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On being 'dead-alive'
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind
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The election machine
How Tory Governments Fall - A History of Conservative Politics 1900-1996
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The origami master from Russia
On Grief and Reason