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Rick Rylance, Secretary of the Council for College and University English Last week in The THES Diane Purkiss suggested we needed a British version of the Modern Language Association The Council for...
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The charity, Crisis
Once called Crisis at Christmas, Crisis changed its name ten years ago to stress that it was hard at work in every season. All too often the charity,dedicated to helping single homeless people who...
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On the move
Sandra Dawson, 52, professor of management studies and director of the Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed master of Sidney Sussex College. The...
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Glittering prizes
Aung San Suu Kyi, co-founder and general secretary of the National League for Democracy, has received the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Bath. The university has also made...
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Venice in peril again
During 1998, the acqua alta lapped over St Mark's Square on 76 days and Venetians fear the disastrous 1996 flooding may become a recurring nightmare. But this month the ambitious Moses project to...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia is to introduce the community college concept nationwide to accommodate students not accepted into local higher learning institutions. The ministry also plans to build another five...
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Sicily
Two academics at the University of Catania have been arrested on charges of being part of an international gang trafficking in Greek, Etruscan and Roman archeological treasures. Giacomo Manganaro,...
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Siberia
Russian scientists are planning to recreate an Ice Age steppe environment in a small wildlife preserve near the Arctic town of Chersky. Horses, bison, moose and reindeer are being introduced into the...
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Stockholm
Sigbrit Franke, 56-year-old professor of educational theory and rector of Umea University in Sweden, has been named university chancellor and head of Hogskoleverket (Association of Universities and...
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Extra cash but too few students
Denmark's finance bill for 1999 adds 3,100 extra higher education places next year and a further 3,900 a year until 2003 but there are not enough applicants. Fewer than 60 per cent of 2,400 places...
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Basque professor urns too much for comfort
A Spanish university professor who shares his office with almost 40 funeral urns is campaigning for a burial site for the ashes. The ashes are the remains of people who have donated their bodies for...
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Left professors seize chance to overturn Jurassic economy
Left-of-centre professors and academicians are seizing their first chance in nearly a decade to propose radical solutions to Russia's economic ills. Former dissidents, social democrats and reformist...
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Teacher crisis for Gregorian University
The Gregorian University in Rome, for centuries the global nerve centre of the Jesuits, is suffering from a serious shortage of qualified teachers. Many Jesuits, the intellectual storm-troopers of...
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China creates super-profs
Between 300 and 500 young and middle-aged professors in China will be paid unprecedented salaries over the next three to five years in an education ministry scheme to raise academic standards, writes...
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University fat cats cream off Pounds 74m
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities spend up to 10 per cent of their wages bills on salaries for top executives and the total probably exceeds Aus$200 million (Pounds 74 million) each year. On average, 55 per...