New spin on a political prince
Many political commentators affect to see in Peter Mandelson, minister without portfolio, the consummate modern political Machiavellian, a "prince of darkness". It was a description that found little...
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Machiavelli 'an overused hero'
Citations from Machiavelli are being seriously overused by writers on management, argued a paper at the "Machiavelli at 500" conference. Terry Berrow, lecturer in strategic management at the...
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Flower power
STUDENTS in the grip of exams are to take part in a trial testing whether their anxiety can be eased by a remedy made of flowers. Researchers in the University of Exeter's complementary medicine...
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Crime school
Over 60 per cent of youngsters excluded from school acquire a criminal conviction, research from the University of Southampton has found. The report, "Criminality of former 'Excluded from School'...
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Firemen's health
Fire brigades need to improve their sickness tests according to Bangor University's school of sports and physical education sciences. Many brigades use a simple step test to monitor fire fighters'...
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Living off the land
Following international concern about the impact of climate change, Bangor University's centre for arid zone studies is to investigate the lifestyle of three African communities dependent on communal...
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History for the future
Historians at Teesside University have won Pounds 300,000 from the English funding council's Teaching and Learning Technology Programme to conduct research into new ways of using computer software in...
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Short degrees approved by students and industry
An official survey of Italy's controversial three-year university diploma or short degree courses reveals that students are very satisfied with them despite allegedly poor teaching. Giorgio Alulli,...
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A league table for the sensitive
Professors in Germany would advise their own children to study economics and business studies at the University of Mannheim, and chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, according to a...
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Euro chiefs attend Paris party
MORE THAN 2,000 academics and policy-makers from all corners of Europe will gather in the Sorbonne's marbled halls on Sunday to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Paris University, and to lay the...
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US breaks student record
A record 67 per cent of American high school graduates went on to further or higher education last year, the United States Labor Department has announced. The figure had stuck at about 62 per cent...
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Jobs gloom jolts Japan
Japan's senior students face a tough year for jobs. Early surveys indicate that leading employers intend to recruit fewer graduates for the 1999-2000 financial year. The shrinking graduate job market...
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Chinese 'birds' try to fly from cage
THE People's Congress of China has started to debate a new law on higher education as part of the shift to a more market-oriented economy. The powers of the ministry of education over higher...
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Will the dinosaurs survive the asteroid?
Is "the university" defunct or is it poised to become the main driver of the global economy in a "knowledge century"? Millennial angst is breaking out all over. This week, a self-selected group of "...
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Two sides of A4 will not do the trick
THE Quality Assurance Agency's Agenda for Quality runs counter to irreversible trends in British higher education. Growing criticism, notably from the Russell and '94 groups of universities, has...