New site floated
Plymouth University, in association with property developer Peaston Ltd, has purchased the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, at a cost rumoured to be about Pounds 30 million. The university...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper, including Multimedia and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The...
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Gwent offers cash incentive
British colleges have stepped up their recruitment drive in Ireland and one - Gwent College of Higher Education in Wales - is offering bursaries worth Pounds 800 each to first-year students. The...
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Whites-only row for Rhodes
Ten Rhodes scholars from southern Africa have arrived in Oxford to begin their studies and there is not a black face among them. Members of the Rhodes Scholarship Southern African Forum, which...
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Libraries need Pounds 27 million
The Conservative Government needs to find more than Pounds million for university libraries if it is to offset the huge drop in spending levels since Margaret Thatcher first took office, according to...
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Whence Pounds 10bn?
The Conservative Political Centre's policy document on higher education shows just how far higher education policy is becoming a matter of consensus. Because of this it may not offer politicians much...
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Great expectations
David Jobbins talks to Mbulelo Mzamane about the unique problems faced in the wake of apartheid. As the second-oldest black university in sub-Saharan Africa, Fort Hare, in the remote Eastern Cape,...
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Ministry curbs new Israeli law courses
Officials at Israel's Ministry of Justice have issued a statement saying that only one of the new tertiary colleges will be granted approval to run courses in law. The ministry added a warning to the...
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Rebels' 'student' image attacked
President Borhanoddin Rabbani of Afghanistan has rejected the image of the Taleban insurgents, currently occupying the south-west of the country, as students of the Islamic religion and accused them...
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Australia reveals huge 40-year expansion
Enrolments in Australian universities have jumped 20-fold from 31,000 students to 622,000 in 40 years. This is one of the astonishing changes in a set of higher education "time series tables"...
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Ministers call for science link-ups
Science ministers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development held decisive talks on internationalising science policy in Paris last week. Jo Ritzen, Netherlands minister of...
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Healthy interests run into trouble
Twenty-three people are to stand trial on charges of possessing forged documents to allow unqualified graduate students to enter specialist courses at Naples University medical school. Among those...
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Czechmate for Klaus tuition fee charges
Ministers in the Czech Republic have been forced into retreat over a plan to charge new students tuition fees. Opposition has proved so fierce that a law passed by the republic's council of ministers...
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Dry rot breeds on the wild side
A scientist at the University of Abertay, Dundee has achieved a world first in the fight against dry rot by successfully growing wild dry rot fungus in captivity. Nia White, of the Scottish Institute...
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Drill thrills to come
Laser technology could make visits to the dentist a pain-free experience if clinical trials at the University of London in the next two years are successful. Gavin Pearson, coordinator of the project...