Student entry goes on-line
Universities are turning to computers to make the application process less time-wasting and less expensive in the United States. Students like applying "on-line" because it makes their applications...
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Barcelona now turns to Socrates
Two universities in north-east Spain reflect on the successor to Erasmus. Rebecca Warden reports from Catalonia. Socrates, the successor to Erasmus, is to be launched formally in Paris on Monday....
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Sex splits science jobs
Massive redundancies in higher education and research in east Germany since unification have particularly hit women's jobs in natural sciences and engineering. Marion Bimmler, chairwoman of the staff...
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Jailed rector released in Macedonia
Fadilj Sulejmani, rector of the illegal Albanian-language University of Tevoto, has been released from prison in Macedonia after payment of bail of more than Pounds 45,454. He had been in custody for...
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Women in graduate studies rule roost
Women now outnumber men among Australian postgraduate students and are rapidly approaching numerical equality on higher degree courses obtained through research and coursework. Figures from the...
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Broers set for post
Alec Broers is to become vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge on October 1, 1996. An electronics engineer and master of Churchill College, he will succeed Sir David Williams, the university...
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New Keele V-C
Keele University has appointed its first woman vice chancellor. Janet Finch, a professor of social relations and pro-vice chancellor at Lancaster University, will take up her new post in September....
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Glasgow Caledonian University sign contract with Bimota
(Photograph) - Glasgow Caledonian University has signed a Pounds 500,000 contract with Italian motorcycle manufacturers Bimota to produce a world first in the internal combustion engine market, a...
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Quality plan thrown out
Vice chancellors have overwhelmingly rejected the Higher Education Funding Council for England's plan for a single quality assurance body. The rejection at last week's meeting of the Committee of...
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Head for science
Robert May, a 59-year-old biologist based at Oxford University, pictured right, is to succeed Sir William Stewart as the Government's chief scientific adviser. He will also be head of the Office of...
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Union suffers battel losses
Students at Pembroke College in Oxford have called off their rent strike and disaffiliated from the National Union of Students, in a bitter culmination of their attempts to fight an increase in...
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College raises security alarm
Despite spending Pounds 250,000 on improved security measures in the past six months, Manchester College of Arts and Technology was forced to resort to the High Court last week to remove two "...
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Greeks prepare for private universities
The Greek government is planning constitutional reform to pave the way for the establishment of private universities. George Papandreou, the secretary of state for education, announced at a press...
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Lords attack assessment overlap for medicine
A House of Lords committee has condemned the decision to subject clinical medicine departments to two separate research assessment exercises: the new National Health Service assessment of major...
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First lessons in mind reading
Autistic children seem to be largely unaware of other peoples' mental states - and the task for educators is to develop learning programmes better suited to their desperate needs, suggests Simon...