Single is best in this affair
The Association of University Teachers today publishes its proposals for joint membership with the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education. It wants "open discussion at the...
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Study the question
Whenever Gladstone was getting close to the answer, the Irish would change the Question." Like all great humourists, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman based their satire on a foundation of reality....
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Lawyer rules aptitude tests out of court
Last year the Law Society president set up a working party to look at options for restricting entry to the legal profession. At present only half the number of students who complete the Legal...
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Graduate wastage reaches crisis point
Italy. Late last year, while Italy's front pages were devoted to the daily twists of the ongoing political chaos, a relatively unnoticed survey revealed the equally profound crisis facing the country...
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Old German jewel in new turmoil
Stone book in stone hand, William von Humboldt stares out at Berlin's traffic from the university he founded more than 180 years ago as a universitas litterarum striving to give a humanist education...
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Cuts confrontation
Canada. Cuts confrontation: students angered by spending cuts smashed windows and stormed the Ontario legislature building in Toronto after breaking through a phalanx of police.
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All's well that ends Will in Aston
Fresh doubt about the sole authorship of a Shakespearean play has been cast by two scientists from Aston University, Birmingham. Using pioneering computing techniques, Professor David Lowe and Robert...
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Disharmony over music assessment
Higher education quality chiefs have come under fire over their handling of complaints about the allegedly "unprofessional" and "confrontational" style of funding council assessors. Royal Holloway...
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Nick knack
All of which leads on nicely to alumnus to be proud of No. 31: Sir Nicholas Lyell, a member of Pratt's Club, and Attorney-General, whose actions in the discharge of that post have provided Sir...
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US state colleges in 'crisis'
United States. Financial insecurity, a sense of lost mission, and a wave of public criticism from the political right are fueling talk of a crisis at state colleges in the United States. The...
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Oxford research job jitters
A survey of 500 contract re-searchers at Oxford University has uncovered "serious and damaging shortcomings" in their employment. According to the Association of University Teachers, Oxford received...
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Mounted police always get their 'radicals'
Canada. A student's curiosity has led him to break open a file revealing that the University of Saskatchewan in Canada was the subject of undercover surveillance for over 50 years. In the summer of...
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New currency proves worth
As new university allocations loom, Peter Knight unveils his list of those best funded for teaching in 1994/95 It is a legitimate question of public policy to want to know which university is well...
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Tree-huggers and nature's muggers
Nature's Keepers
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The epidemiological zoo
Plague's Progress