Merger cure for Chinese growing pains
Higher education in China has expanded too rapidly in the opinion of responsible government body, the State Education Commission. To improve efficiency and academic capacity, more than 100...
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More students can mean less
One statistic which is embedded in the consciousness of higher education policy-makers and even more so of those at the sharp end in universities and colleges is that the age participation rate - the...
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Conflicts over water
As rain washes the issues of water shortage and drought out of the headlines, at least temporarily, another water-related subject emerges in the media, namely the possibility of the merger of two...
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The future of the BA
For over 100 years, journalists have thought of "the BA" not as an organisation but as a week, round about the end of the silly season, when science erupts all over the newspapers. As an annual...
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Arbitrary rules which impede learning
Three years ago Victoria College offered a subject at A level as a one-year course. Twenty students signed up for it and the results were so good that we offered the course again the following year....
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Private French university takes flak from rivals
The first French version of a United States-style private university kept a low profile when it opened last week. Amid stinging criticism in the French press and with demonstrators demanding its...
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Japanese universities warm to industry
Japan's universities have traditionally kept their distance from the country's powerful and highly-successful business sector. With full enrolments and healthy bank balances there was often little...
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Sex and the single-minded
Boys will be boys is an expression that has no place in the corridors of Hong Kong's establishments of higher education, as roguish behaviour is a concept that remains largely alien to its morally...
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Vital statistics carded
As a boy growing up in Pennsylvania, Chris Jachimowicz's best friend's father was a security guard at Topps Chewing Gum. Topps was the leading manufacturer of trading cards, and from there was born a...
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Creative lecturing takes a nosedive
University lecturers in Australia are likely to become more didactic in their teaching and less willing to adopt new ideas because of worsening conditions, a senior researcher warns. According to...
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Top job for physicist
A defence official has been appointed chief executive of Australia's major research body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Malcolm McIntosh, head of defence...
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Protests greet mother killer's arrival
Gina Grant, the 19-year-old straight-A scholar who bludgeoned her mother to death as a young teenager, has enrolled at Tufts University in Massachusetts along with 1,200 other freshmen. But while she...
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Nuclear rationale rethought
Huw Richards reports from the American Political Studies Association's conference in Chicago. "Who's next?" asked satirical songwriter and Harvard mathematician Tom Lehrer, as the small group of...
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Gift trapped
Patients and their families often give gifts to nurses as a way of evening out the balance of power, according to research from the University of Hertfordshire's School of Health and Human Sciences....
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Comfort factor wins students
A survey at Indiana's Purdue University says it all about the needs of the modern American student. A sample of 6,000 college rooms found 3,000 answering machines, more than 5,000 televisions, close...