Hill faces chair fight
Law professor Anita Hill, still a deeply controversial figure four years after her claims that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her transfixed the nation, is to have a...
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China bans social sciences journal
China has ordered a new magazine, allied to the Academy of Social Sciences, to cease publishing. The magazine, which summarises some of the most up-to-date research under way in China's social...
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Killer's college atones for Rabin death
Bar-Ilan University is mounting what appears to be a campaign of public atonement for the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by one of its law students. But it is an open question whether the...
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Charges against academics dropped
Ethiopia has dropped charges against six senior academics and ten journalists accused of breaking press and criminal laws in connection with student disturbances in Addis Ababa four years ago....
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Cold comfort for science
One can only marvel that a 1984-style "Newspeak" is alive and well in the rhetoric used by science policy leaders to justify the poor job performance of science graduates (THES, December 29). When...
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Should FE college governors be paid?
There is a long and strong tradition in this country of "voluntary" public service. That must be a good thing. However there does appear to be some muddled thinking in the debate concerning governor...
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Cross-border gains
We refer to your recent article by Paul McGill concerning the number of students from Northern Ireland pursuing their higher education in the Republic of Ireland (THES, December 8). Our first point...
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A throttle on expansion
A familiar theme caught the ears of MPs ensconced in the committee rooms of Westminster late last term. They recognised it as the one whistled along corridors at the Department for Education and...
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Kenyan students go on rampage
Kenyatta University closed indefinitely late last year following riots. More than 5,000 students went on the rampage for two consecutive days, raiding kitchens and damaging property. There were...
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Pirates battle over degrees
Some British universities operating in Turkey are involved in illegal education programmes, the country's higher education board, YOK, has alleged. YOK, which administers and supervises Turkish...
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French win call for fair share
PARIS Former French interior minister Charles Pasqua has agreed to share some of the resources of his regional council's private "university" with the public sector. However, state university...
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Italy loses brain gain
ROME A programme to lure back scores of eminent Italian scientists who have left Italy to work abroad has failed to meet expectations. The special law, passed in 1988, established salaries of up to...
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World gives mapmakers a geochemical feast
An ambitious plan to map the globe's geochemistry could help pinpoint the causes of diseases, land desecration and minerals for exploitation. The British Geological Survey is a key player in the...
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How to transmit the AIDS story
How to mount a public information exercise like the HIV and AIDS campaign with a "disappearing public" is a central theme of "Transmission '96" at Salford University later this year. The arrival of...
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Maastricht money, but no Monet
Art educators from all over Europe gathered in Birmingham last term to debate style, structure and the Maastricht Treaty. Their interest in the treaty was focussed on a principle laid down in...