Agency closes overseas offices
ߣߣÊÓƵ's main foreign student recruitment agency is to abandon non-profitable markets and consolidate its activities in the main source countries. Facing its third loss-making year, IDP Education...
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Minister chastised over loans
Student protests over proposals to increase the cost of government-backed loans have earned the Kazakh education minister a presidential dressing-down and have cost his deputy her job. Plans...
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Paris
Four containers packed with laboratory equipment, reference books and student textbooks valued at $6 million (£3.08 million) are due to arrive in Iraq by the end of the month as part of an...
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Brussels
The European Union and Israel are to negotiate a higher education agreement under a draft general action plan under discussion between Tel Aviv and Brussels. Talks will aim at synchronising EU and...
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Canberra
The ߣߣÊÓƵn National University is to sue insurers to gain higher compensation after a bushfire destroyed much of its Mt Stromlo Observatory almost two years ago. Negotiations with insurers have...
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Benin
More than 1,500 students at the Benin University, many in their final year, have been expelled over the past two weeks in a clampdown on forged school leaving certificates and other irregularities.
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Washington DC
Female professors at US universities earn about 88 per cent of their male colleagues' salaries, according to a survey by the American Association of University Professors. The disparity is wider at...
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Kabul
Afghan president Hamid Karzai is to honour a constitutional commitment that all members of his new Cabinet will have to hold a university degree, aides said. The decision means that several current...
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The Rime of the Ancyent Lecturere
Take heed, 'tis a wretched don who dare sticketh his head above th' parapet, laments Steve Hawley (with apologies to Coleridge) 1 It is an Ancyent Lecturere And he teacheth one till three "By thy...
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Don's diary: Christmas reflections
Monday In the uneventful life of a university lecturer, the smallest victories and defeats assume epic qualities. This would explain the peculiar feeling of deflation I experience when I spot a...
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Wetting the new arrival's head
The departure of Charles Clarke and the arrival of Ruth Kelly at the Department for Education and Skills appears to have been a champagne moment for some civil servants. Within hours of Ms Kelly's...
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Yet more Labour spin
The new Secretary of State for Education and Skills did not, however, have the opportunity to make a grand entrance to the department to meet her officials. Building work meant Ms Kelly had to make...
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All the president men
Last week, Universities UK trumpeted the appointment of Drummond Bone, vice-chancellor of Liverpool University, as its new president. But the initial press release - later hurriedly corrected - also...
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Dean there, done that
Universities that turn to headhunters to help fill their vacancies should remember their loyalty is often very temporary. One academic who recently got a job as a dean within a major university was...
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Why I ... think that universities should take campus religion seriously
Walking along Oxford Road in Manchester recently I counted six or seven people - leaflets, false smiles - working the crowds. Their shabby anoraks gave them away as street evangelists seeking out...