Out to Graz
Controversy over participation in the European Association for American Studies conference, which was held in Graz, Austria, in early April, led to a pre-conference meeting of representatives from...
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The pension millionaire game
Pension chiefs should learn tobe more open and ask the audience, says Andrew Oswald Chris Tarrant: Welcome to the only show where you, the regular person, can win riches. I believe you are Ulysses....
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Ken Richardson argued that aptitude tests would not get more working-class children into university. Anyone interested in the way that scholastic aptitude tests work should...
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Explaining the profits
Your money is in safe hands, says university pension scheme chief executive David Chynoweth. The pensions industry is under close scrutiny. And rightly so. The funds involved are huge and those...
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Is this the final frontier?
A mysterious, deep red point of light that might turn out to be by far the most distant object ever seen has astronomers baffled. The object, dubbed HDFN-JD1 by its discoverers, has been found in a...
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Jerusalem
Arab students demonstrated against the government last week at the Hebrew University and at Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion universities, in sympathy with their colleagues at Haifa University, who have been...
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Athens
Greece's new education secretary, Petros Efthymiou, has called on the academic community to enter an open dialogue to find solutions for the problems besetting Greek higher education.
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Padua
The university of Padua is leading Italy's universities in an online project, Thesis, aimed at eliminating plagiarism of theses by both students and professors. The universities of Bologna, Siena,...
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Stone wall
(Photograph) - Bolivian university students armed with slingshots clash with police in La Paz in five days of protests that led to the declaration of a state of emergency and suspension of...
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Scrutiny agency bullishly defended
The universities' quality watchdog has mounted a robust defence of the Quality Assurance Agency, telling MPs that the agency's critics are mostly "elitists", writes Phil Baty. In a pre-emptive strike...
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Student shortage leads to job cuts
Napier University fears it will lose up to Pounds 3 million in the coming year because of problems in student recruitment and retention, writes Olga Wojtas. It is aiming to shed 55 of its 1,800 posts...
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Greased lightning
(Photograph) - Students and staff at Glasgow Caledonian University are developing a biodiesel car that runs on sunflower oil, or even chip shop oil. They displayed a working model at the Edinburgh...
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Don's Diary
Monday Wake up in state of disorientation in the Transylvanian town of Sibiu. Turn over and rumple Terry Eagleton's Illusions of Postmodernism, which appears to have served as a pillow. Join Mark...
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Buenos Aires
Argentina's national deaf-mutes' association has opened the country's first school of Argentinian sign language in Buenos Aires, the Jose Antonio Terry institute.
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Labour is off-target on FE
The government's further education policy faced failure this week when it emerged that student numbers are set to fall for a second year running, after 20 years of growth. Despite ministers' plans to...