Costa Rica takes green lead
An international network of universities is now in place determined to shape a sustainable economic, social and environmental programme for developing countries. The successful emergence of the...
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Mickey Mouse degrees
Disneyland Paris director Philippe Bourguignon has revealed that the leisure park may open a "service university" in 1997, offering a two or three-year course alternating with work in the park. The...
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Fear of fraud is killing ideas
German academics have been warned that a climate of mistrust over academic fraud and plagiarism is threatening to nip good research projects in the bud and to destroy the necessary climate of...
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German students older but not wiser
Roman Herzog, Germany's Federal Chancellor, has spoken out in favour of drastic reforms in the country's higher education system. He wants to see study time shortened, more flexible course structures...
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British back on Berlin map
Germany's first institution devoted to the study of Britain is being set up in Berlin, a year after British occupying troops left the city. The new Grossbritanium-Zentrum is to be both a research and...
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Absent lecturers exposed
Students at the University of Pisa, one of the most highly rated in Italy, have decided to set up a surveillance system to expose lecturers who do not turn up for lectures, are late or leave early,...
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Students refuse funding deal
In tune with the worsening industrial strife in France, students in dozens of universities spurned yet another attempt this week by education minister Francois Bayrou to reach a compromise over...
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Government survives reform vote
The Irish government has survived a vote in the upper house of parliament on the general principles underlying its proposed university reforms. The vote followed publication of a discussion document...
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Joint bid is best option
Further to your report concerning Natfhe's attempts to secure agreement with the Association of University Teachers around a joint pay claim for academic staff (THES, December 1) the facts are as...
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Logic of the rhetoric
Roger Brown questions the link between research and teaching. Is research a necessary, integral, part of higher education? If it is, what policies should we pursue to promote its beneficial...
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Green grass of home
In the midst of depression following yet more cuts to higher education funding, perhaps there is one bright note. Further editions of Don's Diary are more likely to start: "Day 1: Doncaster. . ."...
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Bengu to intervene in Witwatersrand leaks row
Sibusiso Bengu, South African education minister, is to intervene in a row at the University of the Wi****ersrand in which the deputy vice chancellor, William Makgoba, has been suspended from his...
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Level headed start
As a former polytechnic person, I have no objection to the proposal that a sum of Pounds 4 million should "be explicitly linked to high achievement". I do however have one proviso, that payment...
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Slippery as she goes, milord
Max Beloff argues approvingly of Vernon Bogdanor's view that the monarch acts as a "constitutional guardian" (Thes, December 1). The problem with this idea is that the British constitution, being...
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For tip-top condition take top up
Mr Clarke is to be congratulated on his clarity. For the new Budget settlement makes it clear that British universities can no longer hope that they will be able to offer decent teaching in decent...