New staff forced to sign away options
Newly appointed administrators at a Nova Scotia university are required to sign undated letters of resignation in a management practice which would make most academics bristle. For more than three...
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Customer power rewards teaching
A PROFESSOR's ability to teach is becoming more important than his or her research output to many university hiring and promotion committees in the United States. Politicians and parents have been...
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Unregulated market plan triggers union fury
AUSTRALIA'S academics have attacked a government report on higher education's future, describing it as shallow, doctrinaire and based on unfounded assumptions. In the first shot of what is certain to...
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Minister calls for overhaul
French education minister Claude Allegre has suggested that a shorter second degree programme similar to a masters in the United States may be needed to modernise the French education system....
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Short cuts lead to 'miserabilism'
A critical review of the socio-economic upheavals across Eastern Europe since the collapse of communism is emerging in universities in the region. The heady days of transition from strictly...
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Sofia study addresses racial splits
ANTAGONISMS surrounding the ethnicand cultural differences of Bulgaria's minorities have been put under the spotlight in an innovative programme introduced at Sofia University, with positive results...
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Not on the cards
Students at the University of Florence have complained that official questionnaires that invite them to evaluate the teaching abilities of their professors are potentially counterproductive. "...
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Galilee college puts peace into practice
THE OSLO accords of 1993 and 1995 were meant not only to initiate a peace process in a troubled region of the Middle East but also to enable cross-cultural cooperation and collaboration on issues of...
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Malaysia cuts overseas study
AROUND 80 per cent of Malaysian government-sponsored students who intended to go abroad this year are to go to local universities instead. More than 20,000 government-sponsored students are on degree...
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Tokyo to adopt intern guide
THE GROWING popularity of work experience programmes for university students has prompted the Japanese ministry of education to commission a panel of advisers to draw up detailed guidelines for...
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Troubled East Timor reopens
THE University of East Timor, the only higher educational institution in Indonesia's youngest province, reopened last week after an enforced five-week "vacation". It was closed in November following...
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'Our support has a price'
Next week the Teaching and Higher Education Bill begins its committee stage in the House of Lords. Here the elected leader of the British universities, Martin Harris, sets out the universities' terms...
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Research as the key to prosperity
Academics are meant to spend their time doing two things: uncovering new knowledge and transmitting existing wisdom to others - in other words, research and teaching. Despite the danger that...
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The marriage of teaching and research
RAEs overlook higher education research and it is time for change, says Mantz Yorke The funding councils recently launched their consultation over the future of the research assessment exercise. The...
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Why lifelong learning is not a policy
While welcoming the aims of the government's lifelong learning initiative, Peter Jarvis, Colin Griffin, John Holford, Linda Merricks and Paul Tosey argue that learning has to be distinguished from...