Calculus suffers maths backlash
GROWING enthusiasm in the United States for a return to a more traditional education in schools and colleges has taken university mathematics by storm. Reforms in the teaching of calculus to make it...
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Official dissent in the ranks
UNITEDSTATES higher education officials are fighting a losing battle with popular but controversial independent college and university ratings guides in an effort to ensure that they contain accurate...
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Technical hitch hits Irish
THE IRISH government has moved swiftly to defuse growing protests over the status of the country's 11 regional technical colleges. A decision to upgrade Waterford college to institute level with the...
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Paris adopts streetwise pose
FRENCH education minister Francois Bayrou has proposed "global" university reform covering teaching, research, student aid, academic careers and management. This is the first attempt at university...
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Race case sparks freedom debate
THE CASE of a university professor from Madrid accused of racism is fuelling debate in Spain over the limits of academic freedom. Guillermo Quintana, professor of educational psychology at the...
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Researchers fight retirement law
DOZENS of France's top researchers have banded together to fight a law forcing them to retire at the age of 65 instead of 68. About 100 researchers in the top "class one" and "exceptional class"...
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Land sale leads to thuggery
AN ANGRY mob of 200 staff at the Quaid-i-Azam University in the Pakistan capital of Islamabad marched on the physics department last month to hurl obscenities and death threats at two professors who...
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Serbs censure minister
SERBIA's education minister has come under fire for his stance towards students' pro-democracy protests within days of taking office in a government reshuffle. Belgrade University's Committee for the...
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Gearing up for a rich research base
British government spending on university science is Pounds 2.3 billion in the current financial year, equivalent to an income tax rate of 1.8p per pound - not bad when the basic rate is only 24p....
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What does assessment mean?
League tables and performance indicators are much beloved by funders and by newspapers, but less loved by those they grade who understand the distortions they can produce. This week it is the turn of...
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The bond that can work miracles
Last November, the THES noted that the Seventh Day Adventist Newbold College was awaiting the second coming of Christ and Sir Ron Dearing. Sir Ron may be cautious about the Messianic status he enjoys...
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Talking totals
David Law asks whether quality assessment results could ever be used to produce a league table of the best teaching universities League tables are a national preoccupation in education. The research...
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Division over a rabbi's memory
GEOFFREY Alderman's admir-ably succinct history of British Jewry's fissiparous tendency (THES, February 14) sadly neither sheds light on the issues nor justifies his own stand and the Paisleyite...
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Division over a rabbi's memory
PROFESSOR Alderman is right that the chief rabbi is not the leader of Anglo-Jewry. Rather he is simply the head of the United Synagogue, the largest branch of orthodox Jewry in Great Britain. As such...
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Pay review or a strike?
THE UNIVERSITIES and Colleges Employers' Forum has become irrelevant to academic salary determination. Steve Rouse, chief executive, says that the UCEA board "does not have a position on a pay review...