Seoul
Margaret Spellings, the US Education Secretary, last week led the first delegation of university presidents to South Korea to build bilateral academic links.
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Strasbourg
The city will gain a super-university in January 2009 when the universities Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg 1), Marc Bloch (Strasbourg-2) and Robert Schuman (Strasbourg-3) all merge.
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Paris
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is seeking "model employers" for case studies for a conference next September on workplaces where staff can thrive and succeed. Details: www...
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Why should some get an easier ride than others?
Progress to higher education is still not determined solely by ability, and Bill Rammell refuses to stand for it. It is socially and politically unacceptable that participation in higher education is...
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Gary Day
Is there such a thing as free speech? No. Or if there is then Gordon Brown may legislate against it. Right, that's that sorted. Oh, all right then. I'd suppose I'd better explain what I mean. It's...
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A piece of advice worth logging
University and college presidents in the US are rushing to set up blogs, occasionally using them to criticise some people on campus and congratulate others, The New York Times says. It quotes lawyer...
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Meal that leaves a bad taste
The word around Oxford is that on the night of last month's vote on changes to governance, David Eastwood, the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, dined at Keeble...
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Bologna, byword for passion
The word "Bologna" may cause glazed eyes in some quarters of higher education, but in Montenegro it clearly has the potential to inflame. University of Montenegro student Ivica Todorovic has been...
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An unhappy business
Loud boos greeted Peter Sutherland, BP chairman and soon-to-be chair of the London School of Economics, last week. Sutherland, who was attempting to give a speech at the LSE's Old Theatre, was...
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Flying up the ladder
The Times Higher 's esteemed news editor Alan Thomson lent gravitas and authority to the debate over the cost of a degree aired last week on Tonight with Trevor MacDonald . Unsurprising then that he...
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Fingers on buzzers
Starter For Ten Cinemas nationwide For me, the most improbable detail in Starter for Ten is the fact that the hero's tutor appears in the audience at the recording of University Challenge . In my day...
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...Adam Smith should be our guide
For a sound, self-sustaining and truly inclusive system, Graham Hills argues... The business of student fees is about to be bungled again - by the Government, by the political parties in their...
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Bard's desires reflected by dark doppelganger
Shylock is more than a character, Kenneth Gross says, he is Shakespeare himself Shakespeare's Shylock thinks like a dramatic artist. He is the playwright's double, in fact. Shylock is Shakespeare, a...
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I just won't wear that uniformity
As universities become more like schools, how long until a national curriculum is foisted on us? asks Frank Furedi From time to time, the university becomes the focus of public concern. Usually...
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Mark off miles on trip to unknown
A lecture can be like a long journey where the audience does not always know the final destination. So, advises Harriet Swain, break up your material into sections and provide landmarks along the way...