Australian turmoil looms
Australia's universities could be thrown into turmoil as they begin enrolling students for the 1996 academic year next month, after higher education unions failed to achieve a significant pay...
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Unwrap the verbal cotton wool
You cannot say anything these days. In November last year the University of Sussex student union dropped its long-standing policy defending the absolute right to free speech. A week earlier the Queen...
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The Czech generation game
Prague School of Economics students Petr Polak and Jakub Mikulasek face a future which, like that of many of their classmates, seems brilliant. A western company has just offered them a job. They...
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Spanish regions complete takeover
The final five Spanish regions have taken over financial and political responsibility for universities from central government. Effective from the end of 1995, the move completed a process of...
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York picks up record private donation
Days after the Ontario provincial government announced deep cuts to higher education in their province, Toronto's York University president Susan Mann accepted and welcomed the largest private...
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US keeps eye on the race
Taking race into account in college admissions - in the name of helping disadvantaged minorities - was turned into one of 1995's biggest political issues in higher education by conservatives who...
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Fastest Hamlet in the West
Those aiming to break the record for the fastest recitation of Hamlet's most famous soliloquy should be warned: human judges have been replaced by more probing computerised ones. The speech of the...
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Medieval Hansard awaited
The spotlight is to shine again on life in medieval England with the first translation of the original parliamentary Hansard. The Leverhulme Trust has awarded more than Pounds 306,000, one of its...
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Police flout informer rulebook
The police regularly break Home Office rules governing their dealings with informants and in so doing often engage in questionable practices, according to researchers at Hull University. The...
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Hidden danger in greener laws
Environmental pollution could bring down international finance houses and global markets, as well as damaging human health, according to economists, business experts and legal advisers. Laws that the...
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Learning to manage with those rapid changes
Arming employees with the skills to manage change within companies should be one of the main responses of management education courses to the quickening pace of change in the wider business...
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On the right Royal road to real success
De Montfort University's v-c wants the former polytechnic to become like a medieval cathedral, a large employer, a patron of the arts and repository of knowledge and scholarship. Simon Targett...
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All wired up
(Photograph) - Artist Mandy Barber and parts of her installation involving 800 blankets, 200 electric ladybird nightlights and 35 orange glow electric nightlights, that was exhibited at Sheffield...
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Shortage of space forced Kent MA delay
Kent Institute of Art and Design has launched an inquiry into events leading to the last-minute suspension of its MA art and architecture course. Ten students from as far away as Mexico and Japan...
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Genetics reply angers MPs
The Government's response to a House of Commons report on opportunities and dangers posed by the fast-moving field of genetics has been slammed by MPs as "complacent and ignorant". The MPs, all...