Liberating staff from 'the pits'
As the General Teaching Council takes off, Claire Sanders hears what its leaders and others in the sector would like it to achieve For more than a century, teachers have campaigned for an independent...
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On the move
Michael Brown, pro vice-chancellor of De Montfort University, has been appointed vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Peter Gilroy, of Manchester Metropolitan University, will be...
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Melbourne
The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee and the German Rectors' Conference have reached agreement on mutual recognition of university qualifications. The main focus of the agreement is on...
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Budapest
Romany studies are to be introduced next year at a teacher training college in Eger, northeast Hungary, in order to raise awareness of Romany traditions and culture. Only 30 per cent of Romany...
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In the news
Former law professor Vojislav Kostunica is tipped to topple Yugoslavia's authoritarian president Slobodan Milosevic in elections next Sunday. An opinion poll in Belgrade last weekend gave Kostunica,...
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Double take
Lucky students at McGill University in Montreal found an alternative to the financial aid office last week. A campus cash machine was paying out C$40 bills but showing withdrawals of just C$20 after...
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Y be serious?
Dundee University's latest student recruitment campaign, "Serious Fun at the University of Dundee", is causing apoplexy among some commentators. The outline of an open book? Look again, and it is a...
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Warwick's warm feeling
The secrets of the vodka millionaires behind the success of Warwick University have been revealed in a new book. Jack Martin, inventor of the Black Russian and other vodka-based cocktails, bought a...
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Policies on tap
In their drive to sell policies, the Liberal Democrats appear to have turned to the world of advertising for inspiration. Evan Harris, the party's higher education spokesman, told a fringe meeting at...
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Path that crosses cultures
Immigrants want their children to retain a sense of their community and to be modern, writes Wang Gungwu At a conference in Singapore on modern education in immigrant communities, we were recently...
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Eyewitness
The Spanish government has presented long-awaited proposals to tackle water shortages, but experts are worried the cure may be worse than the disease. The National Hydrology Plan concentrates on the...
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Abakhan
The eastern Siberian republic of Khakassia, part of the Russian Federation, has offered to pay for the university education of the sister of one of the victims of the Kursk submarine disaster. The...
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Buenos Aires
Twenty state university rectors have handed a letter to President Fernando de la RNoa's office. In it, they warn that they can no longer guarantee universities will function properly because of cuts...
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Paris
Marie-Francoise Bechtel has become the first woman director of ENA, France's elite school of administration that trains high-fliers for the civil service. A former philosophy teacher and a graduate...
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Washington
More than a quarter of Americans aged over 25 have degrees, compared with 21.3 per cent a decade ago, and only 4.6 per cent in 1940, according to figures released by the United States Census Bureau....