Posterity plaques
(Photograph) - Posterity plaques: Edinburgh University's principal, Sir Stewart Sutherland, displays the first in a series of millennial plaques commemorating the achievements of university staff,...
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V-cs make last bid for cash
Vice-chancellors made an eleventh-hour plea to chancellor Gordon Brown this week for more cash as the Treasury finalised its spending review. Labour peer Diana Warwick, chief executive of the...
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Degree titles to be overhauled
Hundreds of higher education qualifications are expected to be scrapped, renamed or restructured under a strict new framework governing the level and nomenclature of higher education awards. The...
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Kuwait
Kuwait's parliament has passed the first round of legislation that will introduce private universities to the conservative Gulf state. Gender segregation is already in force in state universities and...
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Copenhagen
The Royal Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University is to rebuild its main auditorium after its destruction in a gas explosion last month. The auditorium was completed in 1858 using special...
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Addis Ababa
Asmara Ethiopian and Eritrean students have refused to take part in the war between the two countries. A majority of students at universities in both capital cities has refused to volunteer.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia is building more universities to achieve its aim of providing 40 per cent of 17 to 23-year-olds with higher education by the year 2010. Just 22 per cent currently receive higher education.
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... ... Labour MP Jackie Lawrence argued that Oxbridge MAs should be scrapped. J.C. HORTON. University of Nottingham. Ms Lawrence claims Oxbridge MAs create an advantage in the...
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Where is the paperless office?
A survey of internet use has coined a new phrase - 'former user'. Steve Woolgar writes. The current rate of straightforward rapid expansion of use of the internet may not continue. This is one...
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Agony aunt
Q I am a lecturer nearing retirement but would like to continue helping students. Is it a good tactic to offer my services to my employer or is it better to seek consultancy work elsewhere? A BARBARA...
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Why we should beg to differ
Is it beneficial to differentiate between universities and polytechnics? Bryan Gould ponders the problem. When is a university not a university? This question is agitating New Zealand's new Labour...
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Shanghai
Four more Chinese universities have merged: Fudan with Shanghai Medical and Tongji with Shanghai Railway universities. Education minister Chen Zhili and Shanghai mayor Xu Kuangdi have promised both...
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High notes
Student123.com is developing interactive CD music magazines for the student internet sector with Cheltenham-based E-Commerce International. The first issues are due this summer. Details: www....
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Big guns roll out to fight top-up fees
The National Union of Students this week claimed to have the backing of vice-chancellors and 100 Labour MPs as well as academic unions as it prepared to launch a national campaign opposing top-up...
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Province gets Pounds 40m
Northern Ireland's two universities are set to get a Pounds 40 million boost for research over the next four years. Ulster University and Queen's University, Belfast, have long complained about...