Merit rises to spur on Dutch science
The Dutch government will reward successful scientific research with extra funding in an effort to raise quality by increasing competition among researchers and institutions. Minister of education...
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Consultation on French overhaul
France's university presidents want a public debate on the future of higher education while they await the first major shake-up of the system for nearly 20 years. Reforms introduced by education...
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Jocks raise their game in class
US universities have significantly improved the academic performance of their athletes after years of criticism that they were using student athletes merely to help them profit from intercollegiate...
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Albanian academy still lacks power of the purse
Albania is to begin the academic year with a new higher education act. But the legislation fails to give universities the right to manage their own money, seen by many academics as one of the major...
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V-c call heeded in reforms
The ߣߣÊÓƵn government has tempered some of its more contentious higher education reforms with a promise of an additional A$1.5 billion (£618 million) for higher education over the next four years...
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Race card is withheld
A growing number of applicants to US universities are refusing to disclose their race, further complicating the debate over affirmative action. A report in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education...
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McGill accused of admissions impropriety
A Canadian university enrolled unqualified offspring of influential people and academically inferior varsity athletes, a former admissions director told a court during a hearing over her claim for...
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We must build up skills, not burn our bridges
Hefce's plans to cut engineering funding endanger the UK's economic wellbeing, argues Sa'ad Medhat. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith characterised the British people as a nation of shopkeepers...
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Games in the house of cards
The Liberal Democrats were recast as kings, queens and jacks in a pack of playing cards being sold at the party's conference in Brighton this week. The packs rank the 54 MPs from the aces to jokers,...
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Exchange and smart
While parents breathe a sigh of relief as their offspring leave home for student halls of residence, a new website proposes that they should take in other teenagers to save money. It advocates that...
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Goodwill punting
Luton University had a welcoming committee laid on for its new batch of international students this week. The committee had organised a programme of activities to help the arrivals acclimatise to...
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Back to skool
Hundreds of copies of the Quality Assurance Agency's report on the Institute of Education, University of London, had to be pulped after the QAA failed to live up to its own high standards. Its...
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'Fun' but substantial M-akeover
Middlesex University has become the latest to rebrand, ditching its distinctive "M" logo for a kind of squiggle that "aims to reflect the university's current and future character". Vice-chancellor...
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Don's Diary: Having a ball not a bout
Thursday One thousand "hardcore thugs" are heading to Skopje today to watch England's Euro 2004 qualifier against Macedonia. I cannot speak for the other 999, but I feel slandered by the tabloids'...
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Why I... think the languages crisis is helpful
The effects of the recruitment crisis in languages other than Spanish are manifold. Drawing increasingly from the independent-schools sector, languages are more socially exclusive and academically...