Stability after high-speed reforms
David Jobbins relates how an academic turned education minister upset the Dutch establishment Dutch universities believed the turmoil of the 1980s was behind them after a centre-left coalition was...
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Quality certainly begins at home
Dutch institutions are taking a positive attitude to their quality control, as Ton Vroeljenstijn finds out. The past decade has brought a breakthrough in the thinking about quality assessment and...
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Pioneers take business courses to great distances
The name of the Hanzehogeschool in Groningen celebrates the medieval trade alliance of the Hanseatic League, an appropriate symbol for an institution which is a Dutch pioneer of internationalising...
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Milking the local connection
Groningen's institute of higher professional education and its university enjoy an unusually close relationship. Olga Wojtas on the bright future for complementary institutions Groningen University...
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Dutch ambition capped
After years of shifting goalposts, Dutch universities are now aiming to achieve 'studyability'. What that means in practice is debatable, especially when institutions must go Dutch on the cost of any...
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Hard stretched to make ends meet
Christine Aziz meets two Dutch students who face a stark choice between loans or low-paid work By the time he has finished his five-year nursing course, Marco Van Thiel, 23, will have borrowed Dfl 30...
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Scots may link cash to priority research subjects
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is considering giving priority to certain subjects in its future research funding formula despite misgivings among higher education institutions. SHEFC...
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Labour leak backs Dearing on 16-19
A Labour government will accept the bulk of proposals expected in Sir Ron Dearing's report on 16-19 qualifications, a leaked party document shows. Sir Ron is due to report on March and Labour is also...
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Guildhall set to axe 84 jobs
London Guildhall University is set to axe 84 jobs and freeze pay for a year in an attempt to secure its survival, writes Huw Richards. The cuts, including 23 academic posts - eight at head of...
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Forthright
Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has astounded and infuriated vice chancellors and academics by insisting there is no causal relationship between funding and quality. He pulled no punches...
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Nail vanish
(Photograph) - Nail vanish: Rebecca Crawford of the physics and astronomy department at the University of Glasgow proves a point about the physics of pressure at the start of SET96, national science...
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Darwin lecturer is swept into the CUP row
Booker Prize winner A. S. Byatt is one of eight lecturers who have become embroiled in the row about Cambridge University Press's celebrated non-publication of a book about Greek anthropology, writes...
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Campus search for fundamentalists
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat this week took steps to clamp down on the activities of Muslim fundamentalists in the universities and colleges of Gaza and the West Bank. As Palestinian police...
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Mystic Percy
Astronomer Percy Seymour explains to Alan Thomson the link between the earth's magnetic field and our genes. When Hamlet told Horatio that there were more things in heaven and earth than man could...
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''Madam, how dare you distort, desecrate and defile the English language...''
Jean Aitchison documents the furious reaction to her Reith lectures on language. Madam, How dare you distort, desecrate and defile the English language as you did in your recent Reith lecture . . ."...