New gold fuels old battles
Poor relations: Stephen Court says the 'new' universities are condemned to the slow lane in research. The deadline passed at the end of January for responding to the Government's review of higher...
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Germany's snobs left standing
Gerard Gilbert finds Germany's Fachhochshulen fighting for status. In Germany's higher education sector, the Fachhochschulen have always had to play the role of poor cousins to the universities...
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Freud and the `selfish gene'
Christopher Badcock's portrayal of Freud as the precursor to Richard Dawkins (THES, February 3) is unconvincing. Dr Badcock claims "the essential identity" of Freud's ideas on inheritance with "the...
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The expansion conundrum
The article by Huw Richards "V-cs push for further expansion" (THES, January 20) epitomises what is wrong with British higher education. On the one hand you and other newspapers carry regular letters...
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Professors in waiting
The Slovak conference of rectors has accused the new minister of education and science, Eva Slavkoska, of infringing university autonomy. She has delayed the submission of a list of 16 new professors...
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Recruit crisis in Russian military
The Russian Defence Ministry wants to abolish deferment of military service for students because of a 25 per cent shortfall in recruitment. Lieutenant-General Vyacheslav Zherebtsov, head of the...
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Exams in jeopardy
Students at the Greek technological and vocational institutes are in danger of losing a semester but even that is not enough to end a dispute over their demand for equality with the universities....
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Farmers fear grants pinch
Farmers and the self-employed face cut-backs in grants to their student dependents if the Irish government accepts a recommendation to take assets and capital into account. At present grants are...
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The gene genies
Anyone who has sat on a modern jury trying a case of rape knows about the DNA test. The matching of DNA in semen from the rapist with that found on the victim is a powerful piece of evidence. But it...
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Blowing the whistle on referees
The research selectivity exercise presumes that the best papers get published in the best journals. The evidence suggests that on the contrary, the refereeing process discriminates against the best...
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Youth returns to college fold
Between 10 and 15 per cent more students enrolled for higher education in Russia this academic year compared with the previous year, reversing a decline which started in 1991. An analysis of...
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Israelis raid university
Israeli army and security service units raided the premises of the science and technology campus of Al-Quds University at Abu-Dis southeast of Jerusalem late last month in a move to crack down on...
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Campuses closed for World Cup
Nigeria's 31 universities, which only re-opened late last month, may once again be closed down to prevent student activism during most of March when the Junior World Cup football tournament takes...
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Clinton begs college chiefs to back tax perk
Twenty-seven university presidents breakfasted at the White House last week as President Clinton made a determined effort to win support from higher education for his proposed tax deduction for...
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Republicans gun for arts cash
One measure of the huge political transformation taking place in the United States is that two grant-making bodies, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities,...