All I want for Xmas
Killer whale skulls, Bronze-Age axe heads, rings based on New Zealand flowers and, of course, the very best wineI Julia Hinde explores how academics are exploiting the Christmas market with a novel...
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How 'things have changed' at MUBS
Phil Baty looks at the issues that have tarnished Middlesex University Business School's reputation in recent months Middlesex University's flagship business school is under attack from inside and...
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Don's diary
Thursday Meet up with old friends at Manchester airport and catch up with the news since the last conference in Sweden in 1997. Our flight to Helsinki is delayed for half an hour at Stockholm for de-...
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Students furious at architects on make
LISBON Architecture lecturers at a Portuguese university are accused of abusing their position by redirecting university projects to their own private practices. An official investigation, listing...
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Teaching tarnished
Teacher training recruitment for secondary schools fell short of targets this year despite costly advertising and "golden hellos". Maths, science, modern languages and technology continued to be...
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Part-time work worries
Higher education institutions are failing to recognise the reality of the majority of their students working part-time during term. This message came from a Napier University conference sponsored by...
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IVF expert sued for extra fees earnings
A High Court battle between one of the United Kingdom's most respected in vitro fertilisation pioneers and his former university could have major implications for academics wishing to take on...
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Knowledge will be king, says Byers
Higher education could benefit from attempts to reform the European Union's policy-making by basing it on the knowledge economy. Stephen Byers, trade and industry secretary, told a conference on...
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AUT pay deal left activists in the lurch
Lecturers from the pre-1992 universities have condemned leaders of their union for their handling of the recent pay dispute and called on them not to settle without balloting members. Delegates to...
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Labour group seeks free tuition
Funding parity for university teaching and research, loans for part-time higher education students and free tuition in further education are just three of the radical proposals in a new book by...
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HE less reliant on public purse
Universities and colleges have become less reliant on the funding councils for money. Some 38 per cent of English institutions' income came from the Higher Education Funding Council for England in...
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Travails of the trailblazers
How does a once-pioneering university recover from a decade of lethargy? Harvey J. Kaye explains The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has resolved to find out whether a once-pioneering and dynamic...
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Moi orders probe into riots
NAIROBI Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi has stepped into the controversy surrounding frequent student riots, describing them as being part of a "culture of mindless disorder" and ordering a "...
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Youthful challenge to Yeltsin regime
MOSCOW The three young leaders of Russia's Union of Right Forces have a positively film-star sheen about them in a political field characterised by age and infirmity. Boris Nemtsov, former governor...
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Young Americans flock to Europe
PRAGUE American students, who once saw a year in Paris or Berlin as a chance to escape the straitjacket of their culture, are increasingly turning to study in Europe for sound economic reasons. The...