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We know which universities are best from asking our teachers," a sixth-former at Guiseley School in Leeds told a THES reporter. But how do their teachers know? In a mass higher education system...
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The brief encounter
Style matters in politics. Anyone who doubts this need only contemplate the respective political trajectories of the last two education secretaries. John Patten, widely regarded as the most...
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Action threat over 15%
Australia's university staff have demanded an immediate 15 per cent rise in their salaries and warned they will take industrial action if the government does not agree. In return they will support an...
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Intakes increased in ministry shake-up
Malaysia's education ministry is being restructured this month. It will have six departments designed to focus on government priorities following a directive by prime minister Datuk Seri Mahathir...
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Exams stamp out corruption
Thousands of Chinese graduates have been taking the new national civil service recruitment examinations. Up until now government departments were free to follow their own recruitment procedures and...
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A case of crime and punishment
The death penalty is on trial in Rostov on Don and novelist Feodor Dostoevsky, who once faced a firing squad, is in the witness box. The mock trial, complete with black-robed presiding judge,...
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Library director brought to book
Valerii Leonov, the director of the library of the Russian Academy of Science in St Petersburg, faces criminal charges for misappropriation of books under his care. According to the St Petersburg...
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Sorbonne heals wounds of 1968
The Sorbonne deserves its prestige and reputation but the ancient university may have to undergo profound changes to face the future, according to France's National Evaluation Committee. The...
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Give our museums back back
Have today's public museums lost sight of their original purpose of educating, informing and stimulating curiousity and imagination? Have they become the sterile preserve of fastidious curators, self...
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Travelling Danes saved by English
Danish universities are considering whether to increase radically the number of courses taught in English to attract foreign students to Denmark. The Danes fear that they will not be able to attract...
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Search for a perfect tutor
The Humanities Institute at Charles University in Prague was founded only two years ago, born in the vacuum created by the disappearance of the old Institute of Marxism-Leninism. But its roots lie in...
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Greek universities in cash crisis
Lack of money has forced two Greek premier educational establishments, the University of Crete and the Polytechnic of Crete to close their doors for an indefinite period throwing the future of...
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Job law discriminates
Employment legislation is keeping ethnic minorities out of trade unions, according to a report from Warwick University. The report, Organising the unorganised: race, poor work and trade unions,...
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Russian spy plane takes the super-high way
European scientists are hiring a Russian spy plane and its pilot to fly through high polar clouds and measure their contribution to the degradation of the ozone layer. The pilot will fly the plane,...
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Children get health tips from soaps
Young children learn more about health from television than from school, according to Warwick University's department of applied social studies research. The survey, which questioned more than 300...