Quality plan for global value
A national quality assurance system to control degree standards at South African universities and technikons is to be set up by the government. It would give all tertiary qualifications in South...
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Higher education quality control
* South Africans brainstormed ideas about higher education quality control with 165 experts from 25 countries at the biannual conference of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in...
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Drivers prove that time is money
DRIVERS are twice as likely to drive dangerously if they are paying for time spent on the road, according to research from Leeds University. A study using a driving simulator showed that drivers were...
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Vents hold key to oceans' secrets
FOR the past 20 years marine geologists may have been searching for deep vents on the ocean floor in the wrong places. These hydrothermal vents emit plumes of chemical-rich waters from the earth's...
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German fraud shock
GERMANY'S scientific community fears that the international reputation of German science could suffer a serious blow following allegations of the country's biggest-ever scientific fraud. Cancer...
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Greeks give amber light to private unis
PROPOSED constitutional reform in Greece may end the state universities' monopoly on providing higher education and open the way for private universities by 2000. The Greek constitution forbids...
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Luminary quits Italy
Renato Dulbecco, the Italian biologist who in 1975 won the Nobel prize for medicine, has announced he has decided to leave Italy and go back to working in the United States because he is fed up with...
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Paris colleges bury hatchet
A quarter of a century after the carve-up of the Sorbonne, the Paris universities are staging anniversary celebrations next week aimed at repairing some of the remaining faultlines caused by the 1972...
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Staff exits batter US outposts
One tends to think of the overseas offshoots of American universities as sunlit islands of academic tranquillity, a kind of higher education Butlins for the students and a Muthaiga Club for the...
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Single-policy Aids approach under fire
The World Health Organisation's "McDonald's-style" approach to dealing with Aids came under attack at a conference in Kingston, Ontario, in Canada. The ten-day summit of 35 international Aids...
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Degrees tightened
The issuing of degrees for programmes run jointly by Chinese and overseas institutions is to be greatly tightened under new rules launched by China's Office of Academic Degrees Committee under the...
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Japanese students lured to provinces
Japan's provincial towns and cities are introducing initiatives to attract new colleges and universities and to help existing ones to expand in a bid to stem the flow of young people to the big...
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Kuwaiti women's study abroad under threat from extremists
A law requiring the segregation of female students at Kuwait University could lead to a ban on Kuwaiti women studying at co-educational institutions abroad, says the country's undersecretary for...
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Academics slam race hate rise
OVER 6,000 academic and general staff in Australia have called on the federal government to reject racism and endorse a High Court decision that found traditional Aboriginal ownership of land could...
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Companies enlisted for student cash fund
The Malaysian government says it wants private-sector companies, especially those which are financially sound and have been enjoying special privileges, to contribute towards the higher education...