Islamic university opens in Tatarstan
Tatarstan, an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation, has acquired its first privately funded higher educational institution -- the Muhammadia Islamic University, based in the capital,...
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Lost science jobs lead to standstill
The appointment of France's first scientific council, the Comite d'Orientation Strategique, to advise the government directly on research policy, was marked by 24-hour closures at four major...
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Few tears shed for privatiser
Indian education minister Arjun Singh, who started the process of privatisation of higher education, has quit, creating a political crisis for the ruling Congress party. Few tears are being shed for...
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Chinese graduates told to lower salary sights
A record total of 895,000 students will graduate from China's 1,075 universities and colleges of higher education this year, an increase of 38 per cent on 1994. It is anticipated that graduates will...
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Business schools find going tough
One fifth of Denmark's 56 business colleges lose money, and they lay the blame on reforms that took effect in 1991. The reforms introduced competition between business and sixth-form colleges for...
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Stitches in search of a scholarly identity
If fine arts and crafts seem locked in a perennial struggle to define themselves in the higher education spectrum, their problems are nothing compared to the identity crisis of embroidery. Its...
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When a 'ferocious lunge' is not a 'slight prick'
Courts look set to benefit from research at University of Wales, College of Cardiff, which aims to help bring hard science to bear on the often difficult task of assessing the force used on victims...
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EU green policy gets southern comfort
Southern Europeans are sidestepping their governments to get help with environmental problems direct from the European Union, a conference on environmental policy heard. The trend is one example of...
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The reluctant rebel
Pollster David Butler (below) has spent a lifetime collating the opinions of the partisan in the most unpartisan of ways. But the refusal of the Oxford and Cambridge Club to admit women has driven...
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A noteworthy antipodean
Janet Ritterman recalls her influential music teacher, Alexander Burnard. He was tall, walked with a youthful spring in his step, and always seemed to have a twinkle in his eye. By the time I became...
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Free speech with kinder words
Annabel Patterson asks that in the often intemperate exchanges over political correctness we should not forget its real achievements. In 1580, Gabriel Harvey, lecturer in rhetoric at Cambridge,...
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Expert help for angst
At this moment in German history no one is certain whether the new (and in all likelihood, last) government led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl will survive the four years until our next elections. The...
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. Buy British newspaper, only do so once a week as in Brussels it costs Pounds 1.40. Arrive office 8.15am to continue a report of yesterday's meeting. Dutch secretary (speaks four languages)...
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Blueprint for a better future
Peter Watson outlines his radical agenda for higher education funding The dramatic increase in the number of students at university over the past five years has placed the topic of funding higher...
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A never-ending learning story
Teaching and studying methods must be revolutionised if lecturers and students are to meet the challenges of modern life, says Patricia Partington. Reforms are necessary in learning and teaching...