A three-cornered battle of Wits
Race and gender are to the fore in the election for the leadership of one of South Africa's largest and most influential universities, writes Karen Mac Gregor. The three professors in the running for...
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An unbalanced equation
Vocational courses do not prepare students for a computer science degree, argues Matthew Huntbach. Those responsible for promoting the idea that vocational qualifications should have "parity of...
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The right ending?
The Tories are set for electoral defeat, predicts historian John Charmley. And, he tells Simon Targett, Tony Blair is a very 'convincing Conservative prime minister' who could be Mrs T's true heir....
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Princeton lifts ban on computer campaigning
Princeton University has been forced to back down from an attempt to curb political campaigning on its computer network as it does in its buildings and grounds. The ban was imposed after someone sent...
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Superleague formed
Four British universities are founder members of a new international superleague of institutions which aims to set up research and student exchange networks. Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and...
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Undercover scruff
The special student supplement in the Scottish edition of The Big Issue contains some disconcerting news for this session's intake - Big Brother could be watching them. It has tracked down some...
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Treasury explores VAT relief
The education sector is a strong target for banks and financial institutions keen to take part in the PFI, according to survey by Greenwich University and Chesterton, the property consultant, writes...
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Students evacuated in asbestos victory
Anti-asbestos campaigners at Paris's largest university site claimed a "remarkable victory" last week when education minister Francois Bayrou promised a FFr 1.2 billion (Pounds 150 million) clean-up...
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Budgets win prizes
Just what do we want to get for the billions the Government spends on research. The increased concentration of research funding in a few universities, highlighted by the imminent increase in research...
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Misquoted
My review of Peter Nicholls's Modernisms (THES, September 20) was rendered incomprehensible by the omission of quotation marks around: "Marinetti's deliberate reduction . . . mechanised currents of...
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Hole truths
John Davies reports on the problems archaeologists face in Jerusalem. The odd thing is it's sometimes called an archaeological tunnel in the press. But the tunnelling work has always been in the...
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Research probes IT value for Dearing
The alleged benefits of information technology in higher education are to be dissected and examined with sophisticated techniques imported from the United States. Researchers at three universities...
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Subscript for a free and easy system
JISC will extend and embrace new models of funding and delivery in its strategies towards the year 2000. The Joint Information Systems Committee's new five-year strategy recognises the importance of...
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Italian job
Among the most reliable of running stories with which the "fings ain't wot they used to be" section of the national press is wont to regale us on slow news days is the proposition - probably first...
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Doctors press fertility rights
Helping mothers to conceive their babies through in-vitro fertilisation is an economically viable medical treatment when used accurately and appropriately, according to Alan Templeton, professor of...