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The option of arbitration is not, as Dennis Farrington describes it, "yet another litigious procedure" (Letters, THES, September 18), but a genuine alternative to the combative, slow and costly legal...
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In short ...
We know league tables are here to stay (THES, September 25). They sell newspapers and books. They allow education editors to support articles with some "evidence". They are the creation of...
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I do not deny the need for modules such as "Varieties of speaking and writing" developed at Anglia Polytechnic University ("Teach students how to communicate", THES, September 18), but I doubt they...
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Balancing act
As the debate surrounding the targeting of more than 100 staff for severance/early retirement at Queen's University of Belfast continues to gather momentum, there are two issues that have...
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Literary cash and canons
In the Booker prize, literature, money and PR merge. Judge Valentine Cunningham discusses how the prize shapes our study of fiction The shortlist for the 30th Booker prize is out. After 124 novels,...
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Support, don't just report
The Teacher Training Agency will survive only if it starts being nicer to institutions, says Mike Newby Flicking through the new national performance tables of teacher training colleges, I wondered...
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Beijing
The Chinese government has set up two funds to help rebuild flood-damaged universities, colleges and schools and aid the 8.5 million students affected by floods, which hit the country this summer....
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Iqaluit, North West Territories
An Arctic university is being planned by the Arctic Council, a two-year-old group made up of Canada, the United States, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark/Greenland, Norway, Russia and Finland. The council...
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Bologna
The University of Bologna has set up a "college of excellence" for the 30 most outstanding first-year students each year. The Villa Guastavillani, set in the hills overlooking Bologna, will house an...
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Launch pad
At next week's UK Technology Week in Earl's Court, London, Sheffield Hallam University is launching a masters degree aimed at computer professionals. The MSc Enterprise Network Management course will...
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Brussels
Padraig Flynn, European commissioner for employment and social affairs, has urged the Italian government to resolve the dispute over the rights of foreign language lecturers in Italian universities...
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Boston
Dartmouth College in the United States has joined with Templeton College at Oxford and the HEC School of Management in Paris to offer a course on global business that will literally travel the world...
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When freshers fly the nest
Packing your child off on their first term of university can be an emotional business, as Harvey J. Kaye relates I entered this academic year in a new role - not as a student, not merely as a...
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Vice-chancellors unite to condemn funding policy
Higher education has little to look forward to if the conservative Howard government is re-elected when ߣߣÊÓƵns go to the polls tomorrow. After slashing almost Aus$2 billion (Pounds 670 million)...
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Hollow victory for reading disability student
A United States court has sided with a student who claims she has a reading disability and should have been given extra time to complete the examination for her lawyer's licence. Marilyn Bartlett, a...