Aliens law draws academic fire
Students, university officials and politicians throughout Germany have called on higher education institutions to check racism, discrimination and xenophobia. The "Marburg Declaration", the outcome...
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President's tax cut fails to win support
United States president Bill Clinton's plan for a middle-class tax cut -- allowing families to offset up to $10,000 of college tuition against tax -- is under fire from the higher education world....
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Black woman breaks into higher echelon
Smith College, one of the United States' most prestigious women's higher education institutions, has chosen a black woman, daughter of sharecroppers, to be its next president. The decision by Smith,...
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Ex-cons and dons
The spirit of the literary sideswipe has penetrated to other media -- a recent episode of Radio Four's The Moral Maze on the value or otherwise of prisons found chair Michael Buerk summing up an ex-...
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Cool for Catz
Next time the Higher Education Funding Council for England seeks a new chief, tipsters would be well advised to keep an eye open for the chaps from Catz. Departing chief executive Graeme Davies...
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Ward award
The New Year's honours list contained a special surprise for lecturers' union leaders. Among those honoured with a CBE for services to higher education was their favourite adversary, Roger Ward, the...
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Psychiatric researchers give Bottomley a free consultation
Scientists at the Institute of Psychiatry, rated last year as producer of the world's highest impact health care research, took advantage of the captive audience of Virginia Bottomley last week to...
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NCVQ goes to market
The National Council for Vocational Qualifications has been given the go-ahead for an unprecedented Pounds 9 million NVQ marketing push over the next three years. Until now, the NCVQ, the Government...
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Cot death TV probe sparks row
Two Cambridge University researchers into cot death have complained to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission and the Independent Television Commission about allegations in Central Television's Cook...
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Fallout
(Photograph) - Fallout: after the Chernobyl disaster, the Sakharov Institute of Radioecology was set up in Minsk, Belarus. Dmitri Lsovsky, a student at the Institute, is visiting Kingston University...
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New SEB boss may mean merger
The Scottish Office has boosted moves to merge vocational and academic education by appointing David Miller, currently chairman of the Scottish Vocational Education Council, to be chairman of the...
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Abertay jumps ship to AUT
There is confusion over the future of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union at the University of Abertay Dundee following a ballot in which members voted to join the Association of University...
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Imperial is untouchable
Research ratings of British chemical engineering departments compiled by academics in the United States show that Imperial College, London, has maintained a stranglehold on the top position for the...
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A degree of protest
(Photograph) - Carson is so incensed by the decision of Queen's University Belfast to cease playing the national anthem at future graduation ceremonies that he has returned his PhD and Master's...
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On screen scream
Computer anxiety may afflict one in five professionals and managers, the British Psychological Society was told this week. An emotional reaction towards interacting with computers may explain the...