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The use of learning outcomes such as employability skills seems to be gaining respectability (THES, November 13; November 20), yet they embody aims and values that are the antithesis of what many...
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Letter
Michael Bulley responds to Phil Race's article on learning outcomes (Letters, November 20) by criticising the use of jargon and saying he has no idea of what the learning outcome of his teaching is...
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Brits target tough markets abroad
The British Council is targeting new overseas higher education markets in the wake of the Southeast Asian crisis. The council's Education Counselling Service, is spending nearly Pounds 1 million on...
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Blair trip triggers overseas scholarship review
Civil servants are seeking ways of encouraging more overseas students to come to Britain. An inter-departmental review has been launched in the wake of prime minister Tony Blair's visit to China in...
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Tank trap
(Photograph) - Tank trap: Athens Polytechnic students lead a march marking the 25th anniversary of the deaths of more than 20 Greek students killed when the tanks of the then military junta...
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Theology turns the other cheek
There are two issues here. 1. Should denominational clergy, religion teachers, and other church workers be trained at state-run universities? This is an issue only in countries such as England and...
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Guidelines for overseas courses
* Derby University is pressing quality watchdogs to review its guidelines for overseas courses. The university has a franchising arrangement with Israel's Council for Higher Education. Israel is...
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Lund
Lund University faces cuts of 79 million kroner (Pounds 5.94 million) as a result of the Swedish government's 1999 finance bill. Between 60 and 80 staff and 1,100 student places in arts, theology and...
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Rome
Italy and France have created a joint authority to promote and coordinate research doctorates recognised in both countries, working with the education ministries. The "Italo-French University", with...
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Pisa
The Italian Rectors' Conference is to oppose ministry plans to upgrade nearly 4,000 graduate technicians from non-teaching staff to tenured researcher status. Chairman Luciano Modica, rector of the...
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Kuala Lumpur
The Malaysian education ministry is investigating higher education institutions working with unscrupulous recruiting agents in China, who promise work permits and charge exorbitant commissions. The...
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Melbourne
An alliance of ten education organisations has called on ߣߣÊÓƵ's government to exempt universities, schools and colleges from the planned goods and services tax. This would mean no changes would...
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The globe warms to further study
Latest OECD figures show a trend towards tertiary education. Jane Marshall reports from Paris. More than a third of the inhabitants of the 29 member countries of the Organisation for Economic...
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Graduates can earn twice salaries of non-graduates
University graduates can expect to be earning between 20 and 100 per cent more by the middle of their working lives than non-graduates, and all tertiary education graduates spend on average...
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Winning governors pledge spending on US colleges
Higher education was an unexpected winner in recent American elections. Voters approved spending hundreds of millions of dollars on university and college construction, renovations, faculty and...