Berlusconi may stall university reforms
A victory for media mogul Silvio Berlusconi in Italy's general elections on Sunday could stall the country's university reform programme, but rectors hope it is too late to halt the process. Leaders...
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Double vision
Daphne Todd won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture at the Royal Society of Painters' annual exhibition with her painting of Marilyn Strathern, mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. The exhibition is...
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Latest international news
Sniper fire closes Chechen university Classes at the University of Grozny, in the Chechen capital, have been suspended after three Russian servicemen came under fire from unknown gunmen as they left...
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Higher education awards
University of Southampton David Barker , director of the MRC environmental epidemiology unit, has been awarded the Prince Mahodol Award 2000 for outstanding and exemplary contributions to the...
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Latest UK news
Tory manifesto promises university autonomy One-off cash endowments for British universities would free them from political interference and uncertainty over funding, the Conservative election...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Research pressure groups, such as Save British Science, are determined that science should not be left on the sidelines during the general election campaigns. Riken, a publicly funded...
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Academics abandon Tories
Conservative Party support on campus has slumped for the third election in a row, according to an ICM poll for The THES . Only 5 per cent of the 501 academics polled said they intended to vote...
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Higher education: the audit
Expansion Home undergraduates (first degree and other undergraduate) numbers full and part time in HE and FE 1996-1997 1,439,569 1997-1998 1,466,419 1998-1999 1,479,056 1999-2000 1,488,046 2000-2001...
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Does Labour come up smelling of roses
New Labour's mantra at the last election was that things could only get better. Certainly, higher education has changed significantly since Tony Blair swept to power, but is the sector, and the staff...
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Growth is blamed for fall in standards
More than half of academics think higher education expansion should be halted because academic standards are suffering. An ICM poll of 501 lecturers, senior lecturers, readers, professors and other...
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ICM poll: academics' voting intentions
Voting intentions 2001 1997 1992 Labour 42% 51% 50% Conservative 5% 8% 15% Liberal Democrat 15% 17% 18% Scottish National Party 1% 2% 2% Plaid Cymru not available 1% 0.2% Green Party 1% 0...
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PM addresses Warwick academics Prime minister Tony Blair added Warwick University to his election campaign trail today, visiting its international manufacturing centre and addressing...
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Latest international news
Iraq offers free education to Palestinians Saddam Hussein has offered free education in Iraqi universities to Palestinians living in areas under Palestinian Authority control. The Iraqi president...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times A team from the Georgia Institute of Technology has conducted a series of experiments aboard Nasa's KC-135 aircraft, testing the effects of intense sound on particles in almost zero-...
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Latest international news
Academics arrested after Ethiopian protests Two Ethiopian academics are being held under police guard on suspicion of instigating last month's student protests in which 30 people died. Mesfin Wolde...