Strike ends with fees warning
The first strike by New Zealand university academics has ended in stalemate and a warning from the university hit by the industrial action that any pay rises next year will have to be met from...
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Summit to end violence
South Africa's education minister is to meet with student bodies next week to try to find ways of ending racism and violence - and promoting reform - at universities and technikons. The summit, which...
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Malaysia pays Pounds 70m for polys
The Malaysian education ministry has awarded contracts for the building of two polytechnics, each to provide places for 3,500 students on vocational courses. Shah Alam Polytechnic will be built at a...
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Australia's guests want to stay on
Almost half of Australia's 45,000 foreign students hope to remain in the country as immigrants after completing their courses, according to a survey by a team of five academics. The team surveyed...
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Tapes cut child stress at trials
A -month investigation into the effectiveness of videotaping children's evidence has found that the tapes are succeeding in reducing the stress faced by children in trials, but do not appear to be...
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Study focus on Welsh poverty
Poverty is a major problem in rural Wales, according to Mark Goodwin of Aberystwyth University's Institute of Earth Studies. He has just completed a survey of 1,000 households, and has found that up...
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Depression hits young in the West
The post-war era has witnessed "substantial increases" in the rate of psychosocial disorders in young people across Europe and North America, according to a report by top psychiatrists and...
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Pension claims hit by delays
Thousands of part-time lecturers and other staff in old universities will have to wait until the autumn to know if they can claim pension rights backdated to 1976. The delay follows the decision of a...
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Mentors prove to be fine guides
Nearly 90 per cent of students on mentoring schemes say that their self-confidence has grown and 30 per cent say that their academic work has improved as a result. The National Mentoring Consortium...
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Radical changes ahead for the Kirk
The Church of Scotland's general assembly last month approved proposals for a radical reform of education and training for the ministry. The Kirk is unique in having no seminaries of its own. Its...
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Bangor export program
Computer programs developed at Bangor University to improve dyslexic's linguistic skills are now being used in Romania to teach English to local children. Xavier Educational Software, a small...
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Superstore plan boosts peaceline campus
The University of Ulster's planned peaceline campus in West Belfast has received a surprise boost from the retail sector. F A Wellworth, one of Northern Ireland's leading chainstores, has announced...
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Churches send Irish students to the US
More than 100 students from Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic will gain free placements at United States business schools under a scheme launched last month at the Washington...
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Future looks blurred
Universities and colleges must face up to the blurring of distinctions between part-time and full-time courses, and between undergraduate and postgraduate education, two professors have told Scottish...
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Think ahead
(Photograph) - Think ahead: Jon Buck, a design faculty lecturer at the Southampton Institute, was chosen from 150 UK artists to create a sculpture for the exterior of Harlesdon Magistrates Court in...