Working students suffer
Work experience outside term time is good for graduate employability, but mature and low-income students suffer from taking term-time jobs, according to a study by the Open University's Centre for...
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UK v-c quits Wits
British academic Norma Reid Birley this week resigned as vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand in South Africa and is to leave her post with immediate effect. Council chair Justice...
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QMUC's new campus
Queen Margaret University College is to build a campus in Edinburgh's green belt, the first entirely new higher education campus development in Scotland for 30 years. QMUC has aimed for some time to...
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Awards arouse interest
More than 200 institutions have confirmed that they will take part in the International Student Awards, the British Council's awards scheme for international students who are making the most of their...
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Analysis: Military redeploys intellectual might
Martin Ince reports on the armed forces' drive to enlist more university services A major institution of higher education that decided to abandon undergraduate teaching would normally expect a tirade...
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EU moves to close gender gap
The European Commission has asked universities to do more to increase the number of female mathematics, science and technology graduates by 2010. In a communication listing five benchmarks for...
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Academic held in Indonesia gets partial reprieve
Indonesia's public prosecutor has dropped the charge of possessing military secrets against academic Lesley McCulloch despite opposition from the army. But her trial on a lesser visa violation charge...
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Doors opened to gai Paris
Foreign students travelling to study in Paris next autumn will find a coordinated support system to help them through the maze of red tape, to look for accommodation and to discover the social and...
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An army of pacifists
Russian universities are producing an "army of the unemployed", according to education minister Vladimir Fillipov. In an interview in the journal Itogi , he says that the number of graduates far...
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'Sweeping reform' for Turkey
Turkey's universities face certain change after the Islamic-rooted AK party's landslide victory in elections earlier this month. Party leader Tayyip Erdogan promised "sweeping reform" of the higher...
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Fort Hare fights back from brink
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers Fort Hare, the crucible of southern Africa's liberation struggle where Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Chris Hani...
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Pay strike threatens to cripple Zambia
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers As the brain drain intensifies, an indefinite strike could paralyse the University of Zambia next January as academics...
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Access revamp
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers The Mozambican government has restructured the country's higher education in a bid to boost access and to align the...
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AVU shifts up a gear
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers The African Virtual University will reach the end of its five-year pilot phase in the new year when it starts to offer...
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Problems facing Africa
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers * The Dar es Salaam meeting of education ministers will next week examine how best to build education into Nepad (the New...