Evasion of the body snatchers
The captain of a small fishing boat got quite a scare when a box he had been hired to dump at sea turned out to contain a skull, syringes and other medical waste mixed with human ashes. When the box...
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Strikers call for union rights
GRADUATE teaching assistants at the University of California have staged their longest strike yet over their demand to be recognised as employees rather than students. And they are promising a second...
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East meets western prejudice
WEST European universities need their own Tempus cooperation programme to appreciate their eastern counterparts better, a leading Czech academic has warned. Eva Valentov , director of the University...
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Germany abandons fee reform
GERMAN education ministers have unveiled sweeping plans to reform higher education in order to make the system more cost-effective and competitive internationally. Under their proposals, students...
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Serb minister hits back
SERBIA'S education ministry has condemned the "blind, destructive" student protests against the government's annulment of local elections. After almost two weeks of demonstrations, the ministry...
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Bar's metropolitan mindset
THERE are costs as well as benefits to the unbroken continuities of English history. The only monarch to be executed was Charles I nearly 350 years ago, there has been no revolution in more than 300...
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Birkbeck tells media critics to buzz off
BIRKBECK is immensely proud of its students and their many remarkable achievements. Not only are they older than students are commonly conceived to be, they combine part-time evening study with work...
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Data wanted on how students live
It is precisely because there is no absolute measure of the value of education that comparative indicators between institutions or countries provide such a crucial, and frequently contested, insight...
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Tapping into adult passion
Iain Jones believes concepts of community and citizenship offer important insights both to Dearing and a Tony Blair government. The dignity of Frances Lawrence, the clamour to find folk devils to...
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Ivy league stirs creeping concern
On the eve of the third research assessment exercise, Richard Mullender argues that HEFCE's bid for more central control does little to allay the fears of those in institutions not selected for...
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Exeter top in German
MAY I correct your report on the funding council quality assessment overview reports (THES, December 6). The top-scoring German department was Exeter with 24 points. Given that you drew attention to...
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The next 20 years
There is no risk that Ron Dearing's National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education will ignore information technology. The danger, if any, is that the inquiry will form unrealistic expectations...
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Copyright clash
The World Intellectual Property Organisation has been accused of attempting to rush through a treaty which could restrict educational and research use of databases. One of the draft treaties now...
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Concordia riled the video star
The management of the student-run television station at Montreal's Concordia University has clashed with students over copyright. In its constitution the campus station claims to own all copyright...
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Songs go on stream
Edinburgh University is using the latest Internet audio technology to boost research into Scottish traditions and folklore. Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies, which systematically records...