Anxiety over student ID system
Universities in the United States are worried about becoming an extension of the police as the implementation date of Cipris, the US immigration department's coordinated inter-agency partnership...
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World watch
The number of ߣߣÊÓƵn universities operating at a loss was a cause for concern, Britain's Lord Dearing said last week. Attending his final meeting as a member of the University of Melbourne...
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World watch
Foreign language lecturers are serving notice on Italy's official negotiating agency in order to escape automatic representation by trade unions, which have resumed negotiations for their new...
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World watch
Kazakhstan is to have a space "presence" despite its repeated protests at environmental damage caused by Russian space launches and crashes at Baykonur cosmodrome. When the Soviet Union broke up,...
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Shanghai ups skills
Higher education is now open to all senior high-school graduates in Shanghai, China's economic and financial centre. More than 70 per cent were accepted by the city's institutes of higher learning....
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Albanians repeat food and lodging protest that once led to Kosovo war
Kosovar Albanian students, who only recently won their long battle for Albanian-taught courses within the official higher education system, are demonstrating once more - this time over hostel and...
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Turkey backs British courses
ANKARA British universities' marketing campaign to attract Turkish students was aided last week by the reappointment of Kemal Guruz as head of Turkey's higher education authority, YOK. Dr Guruz, a...
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A capital innovation for making a profit
Michael Goldstein looks at the economic challenges created by technology Technology has changed the economics of higher education profoundly, resulting in a dramatic lowering of the wall between not-...
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When ethics wins the pension fund debate
Guy Hughes describes the staff campaign to force the Universities Superannuation Scheme to rethink where it invests its money The Universities Superannuation Scheme announced last week that it will...
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Why I...
... believe ethically responsible investment will benefit academic pensions David Chynoweth Chief executive of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, which has assets of nearly Pounds 20 billion....
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Readers' reactions
Two weeks ago in The THES... Philip Stott argued that rainforests are not essential to our survival on this planet Nick Brooks Department of geography University of Reading Philip Stott seeks to...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds. available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk NHS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT www.ex.ac.uk/pgms/nhse.htm National...
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Columbia University's three-in-one commercial venture
Columbia University created Morningside Ventures to define and implement a strategy that would be consistent with the university's mission and values while looking ahead. It is a for-profit...
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Ulster speeds data
A wireless microwave network is transmitting data equivalent to the contents of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in a second between Northern Ireland's three leading research organisations. Donated by...
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Chaos as mobile calls jam
Staffordshire University researchers are about to throw the phone system into chaos - for the sake of getting a better service. Engineers in the school of engineering and advanced technology are to...