Right sweeps to power in Italy
FOR THE first time in 30 years, candidates of the political right swept to victory in elections for student councils in many Italian universities, marking the end of a long-standing predominance of...
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Erik the Red is coming home
A DANISH fisheries inspection vessel arrives in Reykjavik next week with 15 parcels of 300 priceless documents on board - the final consignment from Copenhagen University of the ancient Icelandic...
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Michigan aids shattered library
MORE than 20 years ago Robert Donia, then a graduate student, visited Sarajevo for the first time and spent most of his time in the attractive but cramped old parliament building known as the...
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Law pioneer sues over sacking
AN ACADEMIC at the centre of a row in Hong Kong City University's law faculty plans to sue for wrongful dismissal after being ousted from the department last month. Derek Roebuck, a founder of the...
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Police-state fear grips campuses
A JURY in Washington State recently awarded more than $1 million to a student who accused his college of passing on unverified allegations of rape. The alleged victim, the accused's ex-girlfriend,...
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Rape case threat to colleges
A STUDENT is suing her college after alleging that she was raped by the father of a family she was staying with while studying in Japan. Erika Eisenberg's lawsuit against Earlham College in Indiana...
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Women win more top posts
AUSTRALIA has three times as many women vice chancellors as it did a year ago. Up until 1987, every vice chancellor in ߣߣÊÓƵ was a male - and had been since the University of Sydney was founded...
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Memo to Labour: don't blow it
Dear Secretary of State, The THES joins the raft of contributors on the following pages in welcoming you and your deservedly successful party to office. Your stunning victory promises a fairer deal...
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RAE needs changing, but not replacing
THE RESEARCH Assessment Exercise announcements on grading and funding seem to have been followed by a certain tristesse which, combined with the angst of waiting for the Dearing report, has led to...
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Sussex success
I WOULD like to correct the impression given by the article "Quango kills off LSU" (THES, April 25) that Sussex University is also at risk of withdrawal of teacher training accreditation. Following a...
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Practical teachers
JANET FRASER deserves strong support for her demand that "practitioner research" is properly recognised in the research assessment exercise in 2000 (THES letters, April 25). Her demand is...
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Merger merits
I AM AFRAID that Frank Gould ("Think big and move for more mergers", THES, May 2), has fallen into the usual trap of assuming that there are always economies from institutional mergers. All recent...
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Dearing standard
THE CONCERN over the rumours of Dearing favouring a national training standard for university lecturers (THES, May 2) is understandable. If we are to take a student-centred rather than an...
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Dangerous skills perspective
THE UNPROVOKED attack by Terry Hyland on the concept of transferable skills (THES, May 2) exemplifies academic isolationism at its worst. Hyland appears to dismiss such skills from having any role...
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Media opportunity
The National Council for Educational Technology will again select the UK entries to the European Community Multimedia awards. The competition aims to encourage the creation of innovative educational...