Militant march
The hard left are no doubt celebrating this weekend. As they see it they have won two famous victories, one in respect of strike ballots in further education, the other in respect of students' grants...
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A Romanian renaissance
Romania's struggle since the winter 1989 overthrow of Ceausescu to loosen the state's grip on society has finally turned to higher education. Here an ambitious and far-reaching reform programme is...
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Germany lacks competitive edge
Germany's foreign secretary Klaus Kinkel has called for a fundamental adjustment of the country's higher education system, and wants industry and the federal and state governments to set up a joint...
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Juppe sidesteps grants pledge
France's new prime minister, Alain Juppe, has outlined plans to implement two of Jacques Chirac's electoral pledges on education to Parliament, but made no mention of his third major promise: to give...
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Realising the dream
Human nature being what it is, we may live in a new world but we react in ways shaped by an old one. New visions may inspire but getting there is hard. So found Harold Wilson 30 years ago as his...
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Time to stop selling ourselves cheap
One does not have to be a Marxist to appreciate that one of the main marks of social valuation is money. For too long British academics have allowed themselves to be undervalued by undercharging for...
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Belarus suffers identity crisis
Belarus's national identity has suffered a severe blow just as the second congress of the International Association of Belarusicists celebrate independence. A national referendum engineered by...
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Affirmative action under pressure
American colleges and universities are unclear about their authority to give black-only scholarships following the Supreme Court's decision last week not to review a case involving the University of...
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Canberra lambasted
University students in Australia have condemned the federal government for tightening access to both the Higher Education Contribution Scheme and Austudy, the student support programme. Concerned by...
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Better sight for poor eyes
Discovering the causes of vision impairment in Down's syndrome children is the aim of a Pounds 195,000 Medical Research Council-funded project under way at Cardiff University's department of...
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Unison solution to promotion blues
Many workers feel barred from promotion because of age, occupation, union membership and employers' attitudes, according to a Unison survey of participants on its Return to Learn programme. The union...
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Minorities in US still lag behind
The 1954 Brown ruling outlawed discrimination in education in the United States but Lucy Hodges reports that minorities are finding there are still limits to 'equality' in the Land of the Free. Black...
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Keating praises 'success' of education system
Australia's unique Higher Education Contribution Scheme has been one of the great participatory and democratic reforms of the federal Labor government, according to Prime Minister Paul Keating,...
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Search for clues in Caribbean lifestyle
A study of Caribbean family structure, prompted by the 1991 census revelation that 51 per cent of African-Carribean mothers are single parents, is under way at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College...
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Chemists dispense advice with pills
Chemists in south-east London are inviting patients to bring in their medicines for a health check as part of a King's College London research project. Seventeen dispensing chemists have joined the...