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Two weeks ago in The THES... Labour MP Bill Rammell argued that the government should not allow universities to charge differential fees Bill Rammell's article left me speechless. He tells us that he...
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Current sources of research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD www.ahrb.ac.uk Research...
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Banks stripped of student loan role
MONTREAL Canada's federal government has stripped three major banks of the task of managing the country's student loan programme, and taken on the task itself. The ministry responsible for the Canada...
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Free education
Oxford students have been in the forefront of opposition to tuition fees in the past couple of years. It will be interesting to see whether they will have support from one student who begins a two-...
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The sense of skills
Help is at hand for anyone who cannot tell the difference between basic and key skills. The Basic Skills Agency and Further Education Development Agency today launch a programme to end the confusion...
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Equality in skirts
Embarrassment is transparently equal at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. It has an architecturally innovative school of management - which includes a six-storey high atrium crossed by glass-...
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Just in time
Time is ticking by for Queen's University, Belfast as it searches for 100 large metronomes to star in the Irish premiere of Gyorgy Ligeti's Poeme Symphonique, part of Queen's Sonorities Music...
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The science Lords
Calls this week from the House of Lords select committee on science and technology for a culture change in science will be greeted better by government than other recent policy comments from...
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On the move
Richard Trainor, senior vice-principal and professor of social history at the University of Glasgow, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich from September. He will replace...
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Glittering prizes
Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, will be awarded an honorary doctorate of arts by the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside in July. Joe Biddlestone, professor of chemical engineering and...
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Czech visa scramble as rules change
A demanding schedule of legal reforms designed to prepare former Warsaw Pact countries for European Union membership is fuelling political and bureaucratic friction in states on the "fast track" to...
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Dragon finds use for Cobra
China is courting India, seeing it as the key to high-tech English-speaking western markets, writes Wang Gungwu Improved diplomatic relations between India and China will not have dramatic effects on...
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Beijing
Chinese leaders including president Jiang Zemin and premier Zhu Rongji say targets to enable 15 per cent of school-leavers to attend universities by 2010 and to increase higher education enrolment by...
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Lome
Demonstrators set alight the main administrative block of the state university in the capital city of Togo. A clash occurred when security forces were requested by the university authorities to...
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Madrid
More than 6,000 Spanish students marched through Madrid last week in protest against a report they claim will propose privatisation of higher education. The demonstration, organised by 30 left-wing...