Masters tackles US fears
A US postgraduate programme in homeland security is to be launched to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York. So far, 70 students have applied for 25 places on...
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Austria worries that EU influx will limit access to courses
Austria's policy of accepting into higher education any home student with a basic high-school leaving certificate has come to an end after a European Court ruled that equal rights must be applied to...
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Student-staff ratio declines
The student-to-staff ratio in ߣߣÊÓƵn universities has fallen for the first time in more than ten years. Brendan Nelson the Education Minister, has claimed the credit despite having cut federal...
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Contact details sold
Swedish student unions are protesting against universities and colleges selling students' personal information to recruitment agencies, unions, book clubs and marketing companies. Under Swedish law,...
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Japanese courts asked to step in to prevent closure
A small private university well away from Japan's centres of population has become the latest victim of the cut-throat competition for undergraduate students. Hagi International University,...
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Chinese flock to join party
More students than ever are members of the Communist Party of China, figures released on the 84th anniversary of the party's foundation show. Official sources announced that last year 2.42 million...
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We can't peer into souls but we can open minds
Could university authorities have stopped a former student carrying out the London bombings? Simon Lee reflects In the middle of our graduation festival last week, the mass media wanted urgent...
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Nancy Rothwell
In academia, degrees, titles such as professor, doctor and fellowship of esteemed societies mean a great deal more than becoming a Dame I've never understood the British honours system and, in spite...
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Robert Prescott: Awash with satirical soundwaves
Sir Henry Wood's statue sported a sailor's cap, signal flags exhorted "every man to do his duty" and the 2005 Proms marked the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Horatio Nelson...
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Deepthroat rumbler rumbled
Ivor Crewe, who is standing down as president of Universities UK, has been widely praised for his work helping to drive through the top-up fees Bill. Yet now the truth is out. Professor Crewe...
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Deckchairs and panel chairs
The funding council must be bored of people moaning about its pesky research assessment exercise. Indeed, rumour has it that the Higher Education Funding Council for England had been trying to rush...
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V-c opts not to meet the parents
Steve Smith, vice-chancellor of Exeter University, was not at last week's graduation ceremonies for chemistry and languages students - the areas hit in last year's departmental cull. Those who had...
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Lukewarm interest in heating up
Peers and politicians have been acting jolly interested in climate change recently. But are they as informed as they should be? One science-minded Lord tells us that he borrowed the important report...
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Guidance that takes the biscuit
Running a university is a weighty business. Thankfully, Edinburgh University's academic affairs, planning and secretariat department is taking its job very seriously with the issue of new guidance on...
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Why I...believe universities should be more understanding of fee paying students
At Sussex University, the annual dissertation dash has become a grand tradition. It is known as the "five o'clock run" or the "run of shame", as thousands of students have to hand in final coursework...