Flexible friends
John Randall outlines the aims of the QAA's new framework Introduction I am grateful to The THES for publishing in full the new framework that the Quality Assurance Agency will now develop and...
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Unesco warms to Eritrea
Paris For a few fleeting moments this week the higher education world put funding and management issues aside to consider the plight of a small newly independent nation and its embattled university...
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Laurie Taylor
"Sometimes when student notes get left behind I read them and wonder if we've been in the same lecture room", - Professor P. Taylor, international communications expert - THES October 2 INDIVIDUAL...
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Dublin
University College Dublin has been accused by the Employment Equality Agency of "generally" discriminating against women academics in promotions, a charge the university denies. In the past two years...
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Moscow
Russia's new prime minister Yevgeniy Primakov last week informed President Boris Yeltsin that student grants arrears would be paid shortly. Some 240 million roubles (Pounds 9 million) had been...
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Fernando H. Cardoso
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Breakfast boost for Oxford college
Oxford University's continuing education college, Kellogg College, has received a $10 million (Pounds 6 million) benefaction from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The college, which has more than 16,000...
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Ban slapped on use of UfI name
The government has banned universities and colleges from using the title "University for Industry" in a surprise move to protect the brand name. The schemes hit include Sunderland University's UfI...
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Importance of taking part
Early assessment of projects designed to increase participation in higher education found the key aspects were advice and guidance, student support and partnerships. But the National Institute of...
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Natfhe to ballot after 27-hour week rejected
Lecturers' union Natfhe will hold a national ballot over the next few weeks on contracts and possible strikes. The union's further education sector conference last week decided to recommend rejecting...
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Tribunal hears of plot to get rid of official
A tribunal heard this week that Doncaster College principal Terry Ashurst confided his plans to get rid of a troublesome trade union official. An unfair dismissal claim has been brought by former...
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Sky's the limit contest for PPARC
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council last week approved plans to introduce an open competition to support truly new ideas or initiatives. Its chief executive, Ian Halliday (above), had...
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Knight escapes obscenity charge
University of Central England vice-chancellor Peter Knight has escaped prosecution under obscenity laws, following the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to return a book to the university library...
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Efficiency gains 'threaten quality'
Alan Thomson reports from the Conservative conference in Bournemouth. Universities and colleges will not be able to cope with continued eFciency gains without a serious fall in quality, shadow...
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Pisa
Federico Zeri, considered the world's greatest historian of Italian art, has died. Professor Zeri, 77, was never offered a university post in his own country. He recently described the university...