Bedrock of elite survives reform
The bicentenaries of two of France's most prestigious grandes ecoles, l'Ecole Polytechnique last spring and Ulm (l'Ecole Normale Superieure) this autumn, have been the occasion of much celebration...
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Exhibition petition
Signatures are rapidly being collected in university circles in Hungary for a petition to save the proposed 1996 international exhibition, intended to commemorate the 1,100th anniversary of the...
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Beginning of the end for Baroni's men
The patronage and nepotism that has for decades controlled appointments in Italy's state university system is under a two-prong attack. There is a rising tide of protests and formal complaints filed...
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Central planning comes to post-apartheid system
Over the next year South Africa's National Commission on Higher Education will investigate ways of transforming the sector in line with new national goals, with crucial implications for the country's...
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Israel's OU opens up to the future
Israel is so preoccupied with regional politics that the 20th anniversary of the founding of the country's Open University is not attracting as much attention as it might. However, peace and long...
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Postgrad fees blamed for inquity
Postgraduate study in many fields is now beyond the reach of the average Australian student because of an extraordinary increase in the number and cost of fee-paying courses, according to the Council...
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Louisiana integrates
Forty years after the historic Brown v Board of Education ruling in the United States that blacks were receiving separate and unequal schooling, states in the South are still segregating university...
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Campus bans `sex net'
Until this month students and staff at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, United States, could tap into their campus computer network for sexually explicit pictures, including bestiality and...
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Freedom under attack
It is with deep concern that we have heard of the interrogation by the police authorities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, of George Aditjondro, lecturer in sociology at the Satya Wacana Christian...
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Pension penalty clause
In January 1994 I took up a new lecturing appointment with an "old" university and applied to join the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Previously I was employed by a "new" university (formerly...
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Cranfield top dog in industry funding
You report (THES, November 4) that "The biggest beneficiary of industry's largesse is Nottingham, which pushed last year's top dog, Imperial College, into second". While not wishing to detract from...
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No time to sit about
There are now well over 200,000 postgraduates in British higher education -- one in seven students. This includes a 76 per cent increase in home postgraduates alone since 1988/89. The rise has been...
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Gongs for the gang
Winners of the first Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education are published today. The prizes, set up with funds remaining from the Queen's 40th anniversary year celebrations, are...
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Just say no, in a very proper protest
The publication by the Higher Education Funding Council for England of its decisions on the assessment of teaching quality in 1995 and 1996 confronts universities with their most serious challenge...
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Try business class world wide
The major debate about the future of British academic research will not be about who should fund it. As in all other leading market economies, the overwhelming share will continue to be funded by...