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Academics are used to being pilloried for being out of touch. But in two rather important ways their normal working methods may be harbingers of the future for the rest of society. The first is JANET...
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Don's Diary
MONDAY. (Week 1, London to Nairobi). Heathrow departure for Nairobi - a conference trip to Sri Lanka has subtly expanded to a five-week world tour. First stop is the Kenya Forestry Research Institute...
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The student experience: funding. . .
The director of the London School of Economics (THES, Jan 6) wrote to advocate (again) differential or top-up fees for students. What has not been made clear is how such schemes (as distinct from...
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The student experience: funding. . .
What is glaringly absent from Paul Morris's article (THES January ), which argues that students should have enough money to live on, is a definition of what, in fact, constitutes student hardship. In...
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The student experience: funding. . .
Despite all the recent coverage of student funding - whether polls, politicians-in-search-of-a-policy or the more considered views to be found in your columns, there is a deafening silence from those...
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. . . and learning
Michael Austin's piece on the charms of modularisation (THES, January 20) and the welcome demise of the course resonates with the rhetoric being used throughout further and higher education....
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The appliance of science potential
Science minister David Hunt announced the allocation of the Pounds 1.3 billion science budget yesterday. Mark Richmond argues against Government attempts to micro-manage research. It is now nearly...
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Clinton loans 'save student money'
University administrators all over the United States are telling Bill Clinton that they are saving "weeks and weeks of bureaucratic time" because of his new student loan programme. Thus President...
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Copyright case don cleared
A Hong Kong University inquiry has completely cleared a senior academic of any wrongdoing or dishonourable conduct, three years after he was found guilty of plagiarism in the High Court. The finding...
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Call to root out officials who plagiarise
Plagiarism by academics and students receives too much attention in universities and is condemned in far too extreme terms, according to an Australian researcher at Wollongong University. Given the...
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Charges for right brigade
Today is the deadline for submissions to the Secretary of State for Education's review of higher education. Our reports of the evidence that has been pouring in show eagerness for expansion,...
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Cuts put brake on expansion
Israel's minister of education, Amnon Rubinstein, was this week trying to find savings of 151 million shekels (Pounds 33.5 million) in his ministry's spending to meet government expenditure cuts...
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Italy opts for state of academics
Half of the new Italian government - ten ministers out of 20 - are full-time or part-time university teachers. Not surprisingly, the new administration was immediately called il governo dei...
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France may restrict entry rights
A report on the future of French universities, commissioned by higher education minister Francois Fillon, raised a storm of protest when its contents were leaked to the press. Mr Fillon has now...
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The moral malaise
Where else can we say to the world 'remember the morality of the human condition' if not here." Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was last week speaking at Auschwitz, 50 years after the liberation of the...