Wits v-c leaves before he starts
THE University of the Wi****ersrand faces a further year of uncertainty following the surprise resignation last week of its new vice chancellor before he was due to take up the post. Sam Nolutshungu...
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Fears over Pounds 35-a-week work proposal
Teachers and student unions in France have voiced concern over a plan to give students work experience and pay them about Pounds 35 a week. The idea was put forward by the French employers'...
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Graduate joblessness doubles
Job prospects for French graduates have worsened sharply with the number of unemployed one year after graduation soaring from 13 per cent in 1990 to 26 per cent in 1995. This and other findings in a...
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Spain faces contracts decision
Spanish university leaders are looking for solutions to one of their biggest sources of tension - the status of lecturers on short-term contracts. Established teaching staff are officially civil...
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The American incivil war
A GROUP of 48 academics and other intellectuals is addressing what is perceived to be a growing bad manners in American life. The commission, which was organised by the University of Pennsylvania,...
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Prudent college students toe a middle political line
Students are counting the cost of college like never before in the United States. The University of California at Los Angeles annual survey of college freshmen for 1997 shows a third of students now...
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Horse course safe bet to run and run
Traditionalists in higher education have found the past decade very trying. The ancient, civilised academic world is under siege from a host of new barbarians. The pillars of this ancient world -...
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More means less in Brownspeak
Today the higher education unions meet to decide whether they should collectively accept the pay offers now on the table. As The THES went to press it looked likely that most would. The Association...
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Musical chairs
(Photograph) - Musical chairs: Katherine Spencer, Adam Wright and Julie Stewart, all students from UK music conservatoires, have won scholarships worth Pounds 2,000 each from the Yamaha Music...
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The black hole in science ranks
British-born black youngsters are being confined to an arts and humanities ghetto. Universities pay service to their paucity in technical disciplines with just a few access courses Look around any...
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Roots of the Ivy League
Stanford University is not an Ivy League university (THES, January 17). The Ivy League traces its origins to 1943 when the presidents of eight elite universities on East Coast of the United States...
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Terms of adjustment
Obviously the University and Colleges Employers' Association's most recent offer of a 2.9 per cent pay increase over each of two years to academic staff unions (THES, January 17) is a considerable...
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Terms of adjustment
With regard to Christine Cheesman's letter (THES, January 17), I would agree that the Government should be prepared to take responsibility for the cost of re-organisation. The proposals to change the...
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Terms of adjustment
Alan Thomson reports (THES, January 10) that Steve Rouse estimates that a ban on waiver clauses could cost the sector around Pounds 15 million a year. This is certainly a massive exaggeration. There...
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Consumer vulture culture
It was interesting to read two separate articles on transferable skills in the workplace (THES, January 17) but neither of them really addressed the issue of what the student thinks they get out of...