Irish proit from duty-free billions
A PUBLICITY-SHY Irish-American billionaire who helped fund the Sinn Fein offices in the United States has emerged as a generous benefactor of Irish universities. Over the past 15 years Charles "Chuck...
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Former Soviet states sign deal
THE CONFEDERATION of Independent States (CIS) - the territory of the former Soviet Union with the exception of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - is to become a "common educational space", according to...
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First for the Third
STUDENTS and administrative staff at Rome's Third University will for the first time be able to vote for the rectorship, according to a statute approved by the academic council. The weight of student...
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Clinton switches rules on tax credit
THE "Hope Scholarships" for higher education that Bill Clinton touted in the run-up to the presidential election in the United States have fallen victim to that morning-after feeling, writes Tim...
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Mormons sack historian
PRIVATE religious colleges in the United States have historically adopted a secular outlook that emphasises their academic mission over their spiritual one. But at Brigham Young University, the...
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Slimmers' disease proves not so deadly
THE WORK of two Vancouver psychologists is helping dispel the belief that anorexia nervosa kills thousands of young North American women and girls every year. Stanley Coren and Paul Hewitt of the...
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Cambridge don rattles deans
CONTROVERSY continues to dog the Australian government's appointment of a committee to advise on the future of higher education for the next 20 years. Deans of education have called for the sacking...
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Japan aims for original ideas
JAPANESE prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has announced an overhaul of the country's troubled education system including attempts to introduce greater diversity by giving universities more freedom to...
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Scientists heal Red Sea rift
A MIDDLE Eastern regional university for Jews and Arabs straddling Aqaba, Eilat and Taba, or based in Jericho, has been proposed at an international conference in Jerusalem. The idea follows recent...
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Coalition splits over Muslim reforms
UNIVERSITIES are at the centre of an ongoing war of words between Turkey's secular and Islamic communities. Academics last week inflicted a defeat on the Islamic-led coalition when a parliamentary...
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FE colleges score but fail to win
When further education colleges were told, after incorporation, to hone their performance, few envisaged chasing so many moving goalposts. It must come as little comfort that their cheerleaders are...
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School report to government
Those of us with an interest in teacher training are nervously waiting to see what an incoming government might have in store for us. In the past decade reform has followed reform, more often, it...
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Doing the business on pay
University academic and academic-related staff look set, after the formalities of ballots, to accept the 5.8 per cent pay offer over two years. Students can breathe a sigh of relief as the threat of...
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A sledgehammer to crack a ridiculous nut
Labour's bid to ban the albeit indefensible claims that the Holocaust never happened is an attack on free speech, argues Jennie Bristow. Last week Labour MP Mike Gapes successfully introduced a...
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A fearless arbiter of competing interests
Christopher Kenyon, newly appointed chairman of the higher education quality agency, sets out his agenda. As the squeeze on higher education funding tightens inexorably with no foreseeable prospect...