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20% pay claim will hurt students, universities say The "unreasonably high" pay claim by lecturers will leave less money for student facilities and bursaries, university employers said today. As the...
20% pay claim will hurt students, universities say The "unreasonably high" pay claim by lecturers will leave less money for student facilities and bursaries, university employers said today. As the...
Australia's main foreign-student recruiting company, already in financial turmoil, has been hit by the resignations of its chief executive and the chairman of its governing board and the loss of a...
Two complaints made against a biotechnology start-up company associated with the Australian National University have been rejected. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found no...
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers The African Virtual University will reach the end of its five-year pilot phase in the new year when it starts to offer...
David Greenaway has failed to realise in his report to the Russell Group that public spending on higher education is at least as good an investment for the government as it is for the individual (...
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Tigers of the Pacific Rim are making their presence felt as more than 50 institutions outside Europe and North America jostle for position in the world's top 200. Martin Ince reports There is good...
The government hasn't noticed, but access is expanding, and the case for fees is unsound, argues Tim Curtin As the period for consultation on the government's higher education white paper ends, two...
Australia's Securities and Investment Commission has launched an investigation into a leading academic's complaints about claims made by a university-linked biotechnology company. The commission is...
Your headline "Let's throw away Greenaway" (Letters, THES, July 14) certainly amused my colleagues but is premature given the arguments advanced. If Tim Curtin reads the report, he will find an...
Thousands of prospective university students in Australia will not know until late next month what course fees they will have to pay in January. The students have to complete their applications for...
One Friday night back in June Bosco Boscovich went out to dinner in Perth, Australia, with some friends from Curtin University. After a bottle or two of wine the talk turned to the decision by the...
North of Kuwait City towards the Iraqi border, the road rises over the Mutlaa Ridge, a sandstone scarp that provides the only relief in the flat desert landscape. Here, the final, bloody and one-...
Brussels, 18 April 2002 The underground storage of carbon dioxide could help Europe to meet future Kyoto emissions trading targets, according to the leader of an EU-funded project at the Sleipner...
Sarah Fitzpatrick's article ("Fee cap will close gates to the less well-off", Opinion, THES, September 1) suffers from an unthinking acceptance of untruths in the Greenaway-Haynes report. How is it...