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Washington DC In his first budget, United States President George W. Bush is to include aid for higher education and science, including a doubling of the allocation for the National Institutes of...
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Web weaves togetherness
The US system of regional accreditation may not survive the trend for online degrees, says Geoffrey Alderman. Last autumn, the eight regional commissions that accredit higher-education institutions...
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Islamic threat to women's college
One of Africa's oldest universities for women is struggling to survive in the face of official policies to promote fundamentalist Islamic values. Khartoum's Ahfad University, which teaches only in...
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Minister faces fraud allegations
Zimbabwe information minister Jonathan Moyo is being sued in Kenya for allegedly embezzling £51,600 from a Ford Foundation-funded project on alternative research in East Africa during the 1990s. The...
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Outspoken minister saves Quebec HE funds
Canadian education minister François Legault took a political risk by questioning his government's commitment to higher education and, in the process, may have saved Quebec universities from millions...
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US access measures blocked
Less than a year after promising to find new ways to increase the ranks of low-income and minority students on their campuses, American universities have found their way largely blocked by political...
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Course gives Dutch dropouts direction
A scheme to help student dropouts structure their futures is increasing in popularity as its reputation spreads within the Netherlands. The Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Amsterdam College) and the...
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Rector resigns but may be sued
One of Italy's best-known sociologists, Francesco Alberoni, has announced his resignation as rector of an independent university in Milan in protest against "practices that I consider corrupt,...
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Student diplomats among worst drug users
Moscow State University has the highest proportion of drug users among its student body of all Russia's universities, a dubious honour it shares with the International Relations Institute that trains...
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Teacher training overhaul
France's teacher training is to undergo wide-ranging reforms that will affect every sector of the system, from improving future teachers' knowledge of their specialised subjects before they start...
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Graduate explains Ford hiring rethink
A high-flying graduate from Queen's University, Belfast, has revealed how Ford motor company reformed its graduate recruitment to improve the "mediocre" acceptance rate of job offers. Rose Mary...
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Plan to set up Gap in Europe
The French Grenoble Graduate School of Business is planning to set up a global access programme to help non-European start-ups expand into Europe and European firms to expand across borders within...
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Project aims to lift internet experience
Design, engineering and computing researchers have teamed up with British Telecom to look at how people are responding to businesses on the internet. Nicola Millard, manager of BT's customer contact...
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Unions object to online scheme
The heads of five academic unions have called for a moratorium on Universitas 21's plans to develop online courses. The general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, David Triesman,...
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Campus offers taster
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is enrolling pupils as part-time students in an online project aimed at combating the low local rate of higher education participation. Dundee has a significantly...