Kenya tells thousands to go to private sector
NAIROBI More than 21,000 students who qualified for higher education last year will not be admitted to Kenya's public universities. They have been officially advised to enter private universities....
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Serbs stay away from Pristina
PRISTINA A new term starts at the University of Pristina in the Kosovar capital on Monday but it is unlikely that Serbian academics and students will return, despite efforts by the international...
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World watch
Maurice Druon, the 81-year-old permanent secretary of the Academie Francaise, the body that guards the purity of the French language, has unprecedently announced he will retire at the end of the year...
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Academy tells Milosevic to go
Forty-five members of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences have called for a change of regime in Serbia and Yugoslavia. The academics issued an open letter warning that if Mr Milosevic remained...
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Student aid worker forgoes clubbing to teach English to eager Kosovars
DJAKOVA Anand Mehta is now back at the University of Southampton, where he is a pharmacology student, after two tours of relief work in Kosovo followed a spell in the Albanian refugee camps. A few...
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Knight's errand
The sale of Chadwyck-Healey has left its founder Pounds 30 million richer but Alison Goddard finds him looking to youth for new net challenges Last week Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey sold his eponymous...
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Councils share Pounds 4m costs of research into humanb side of IT
Adventurous research collaborations between social and computing scientists are being encouraged as the Economic and Social Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
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University picks Linux
Manchester Metropolitan University will use the open-source Linux operating system, combined with IBM's DB2 Universal Database, as the platform for delivering education and training to 1,200 students...
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Change for the phone
BT Cellnet has awarded a Pounds 10,000 bursary to fine-art postgraduate student John Reveler to study at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design for a year. During the year, he will design a cellular...
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Donosaurs bid to save distinction from extinction
In his scathing but affectionate portrayal of Oxford and Cambridge dons 30 or 40 years ago (page 20) Noel Annan quotes with evident agreement Jasper Rose and John Ziman's assertion that Oxbridge dons...
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Give quality respect it deserves
The media treatment of the Quality Assurance Agency's activity is becoming part of the story itself. It portrays an agency at war with the sector in an often personalised way, with pictures of John...
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It's not too early to show hand in admissions game
Universities may not have considered entry criteria for 2002, but schools need guidance now to prepare pupils, says John Dunford Schoolteachers have universally welcomed the greater opportunity for...
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Advice unheeded is no use at all
In the aftermath of the Paddington tragedy, Stephen Regel asks what role, if any, academics can play In the aftermath of the Paddington rail disaster, opinions and views are already being sought from...
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Innovate or atrophy
Charles Leadbeater warns academics that ministers view them as insular and irrelevant A gulf of distrust and mutual misapprehension has opened up between the government and intellectuals in recent...
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Why I...
Lecturer in psychology, University of Newcastle, and visiting professor at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London The Teaching Quality Assessment is not what it seems. It has nothing to do with improving...