Leaders of future lean to the right
German students are becoming more conventional and self-interested and are even tending towards right-wing nationalism, according to research commissioned by the federal education ministry. Student...
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Tecce wins third term
Giorgio Tecce, 71, has been elected for a third term as Magnifico Rettore of Rome's La Sapienza University, Europe's biggest institution of higher education, and second only in the world in size to...
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Violent protests roused by tough cuts
As the new academic year begins in West Africa, some francophone countries are determined to see through unpopular university reforms, repeatedly postponed in the past because of student and staff...
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University of Sierra Leone fails to re-open
The University of Sierra Leone failed to re-open for the new academic year. The government of Captain Valentine Strasser ordered it to remain closed so that much-needed renovations could be carried...
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Year-long lecturers' strike reaches final impasse
Professors at the University of Nairobi are continuing a lecturers' strike that has now paralysed academic programmes there for nearly a year. When the university re-opened its door to 2,700 first-...
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Central European project welcomes Croatia
A bid by Croatia to become a passive member in joint Central European programmes for higher education and research has been given whole-hearted support by the Danube Rectors' Conference. The...
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The rodent report
Peter Breeze argues that extra money raised from charge must stay in higher education. The report of the Commission on Social Justice published last week recognises that if higher education provision...
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A question of tolerance and diversity
The vision existing in church colleges as expressed by Gordon McGregor (THES, October 14) remains unaffected by the poor arguments ranged against him in your columns (David Clines, October 21;...
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Labs used as `private offices'
Accusations that professors are using university laboratories as "private offices" and are involved in the unauthorised use of European Union resources as well as extensive tax evasion are assuming...
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Blow away oligarchies
John Rear's defence of managerial sensitivity to academic issues is encouraging. As he says, "good management does not exclude collegiality"; it may encourage it, as responsibility for courses in...
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Savoir faire
(Photograph) - Savoir faire: Edith Cresson, the former French socialist prime minister, is the new European commissioner for education, training and research. Mrs Cresson takes over responsibility...
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Blow away oligarchies
Two weeks ago (THES October 21), we had John Rear (approved by your leader) attacking critics of the new university managements; last week we had Christina Townsend of BTEC attacking, in a Maggie...
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Lessons from a past perdu
From Kam Patel's interview with John Hopfield (THES, October 21) we learn that his 1982 paper on associative memory "led to an 'explosion' of research in neural computing". Hopfield himself...
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Idiomatic error
Pamela King and Angela Barrs (THES, October 14) represent me as a stone-throwing, glass-house dweller because I confused an idiomatic error with a grammatical one in my article (THES, September 30)....
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A question of tolerance and diversity
Professor Clines is right on two counts out of three which is better than I do most weeks. 1. There is certainly no gainsaying the high quality of the church colleges. 2. Some of them may need to...