Radical college on the ropes
Such is the financial crisis hitting American higher education -- particularly small, liberal arts colleges -- that some are doing the unthinkable, sacking staff, and even abolishing academic tenure...
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Study line
(Photograph) - Study line: Eurostar, operator of the first channel tunnel services between Paris, Brussels and London, may introduce a student concessionary fare when its full fare structure is...
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Universities on guard for return of quality auditor
For the second year running, Australian universities are being subject to a federal quality audit. At stake is almost $80 million (Pounds 36.4 million) in additional grants. Review teams from the...
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Protesters recoup research funding
The French government has made concessions on public research funding after two demonstrations and a laboratory strike by staff of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. As...
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Leaders of future lean to the right
German students are becoming more conventional and self-interested and are even tending towards right-wing nationalism, according to research commissioned by the federal education ministry. Student...
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Tecce wins third term
Giorgio Tecce, 71, has been elected for a third term as Magnifico Rettore of Rome's La Sapienza University, Europe's biggest institution of higher education, and second only in the world in size to...
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Violent protests roused by tough cuts
As the new academic year begins in West Africa, some francophone countries are determined to see through unpopular university reforms, repeatedly postponed in the past because of student and staff...
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University of Sierra Leone fails to re-open
The University of Sierra Leone failed to re-open for the new academic year. The government of Captain Valentine Strasser ordered it to remain closed so that much-needed renovations could be carried...
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Year-long lecturers' strike reaches final impasse
Professors at the University of Nairobi are continuing a lecturers' strike that has now paralysed academic programmes there for nearly a year. When the university re-opened its door to 2,700 first-...
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Central European project welcomes Croatia
A bid by Croatia to become a passive member in joint Central European programmes for higher education and research has been given whole-hearted support by the Danube Rectors' Conference. The...
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The rodent report
Peter Breeze argues that extra money raised from charge must stay in higher education. The report of the Commission on Social Justice published last week recognises that if higher education provision...
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A question of tolerance and diversity
The vision existing in church colleges as expressed by Gordon McGregor (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, October 14) remains unaffected by the poor arguments ranged against him in your columns (David Clines, October 21;...
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Labs used as `private offices'
Accusations that professors are using university laboratories as "private offices" and are involved in the unauthorised use of European Union resources as well as extensive tax evasion are assuming...
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Blow away oligarchies
John Rear's defence of managerial sensitivity to academic issues is encouraging. As he says, "good management does not exclude collegiality"; it may encourage it, as responsibility for courses in...
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Savoir faire
(Photograph) - Savoir faire: Edith Cresson, the former French socialist prime minister, is the new European commissioner for education, training and research. Mrs Cresson takes over responsibility...