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ART AND DESIGNThe Cambridge Companion to GiottoEdited by Anne Derbes, professor of art at Hood College and Mark Sandona, professor of English, Hood CollegeCambridge University Press, ?18.99. ISBN...
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Tuition fees have variable effect on would-be students
Applications to Australian universities for 2005 have fallen sharply, but higher tuition fees due to be imposed at most institutions may not be to blame. Public universities in Western Australia have...
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Today's news
20% pay claim will hurt students, universities say The "unreasonably high" pay claim by lecturers will leave less money for student facilities and bursaries, university employers said today. As the...
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Recruiting body in crisis
Australia's main foreign-student recruiting company, already in financial turmoil, has been hit by the resignations of its chief executive and the chairman of its governing board and the loss of a...
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Bio start-up is in the clear
Two complaints made against a biotechnology start-up company associated with the Australian National University have been rejected. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found no...
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AVU shifts up a gear
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers The African Virtual University will reach the end of its five-year pilot phase in the new year when it starts to offer...
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Let's throw away Greenaway
David Greenaway has failed to realise in his report to the Russell Group that public spending on higher education is at least as good an investment for the government as it is for the individual (...
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Scales of flesh sales
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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Statistical myths give lie to white-paper policy
The government hasn't noticed, but access is expanding, and the case for fees is unsound, argues Tim Curtin As the period for consultation on the government's higher education white paper ends, two...
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Beijing leads Asia's march to the forefront
Tigers of the Pacific Rim are making their presence felt as more than 50 institutions outside Europe and North America jostle for position in the world's top 200. Martin Ince reports There is good...
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'False claim' dispute pits research against industry
Australia's Securities and Investment Commission has launched an investigation into a leading academic's complaints about claims made by a university-linked biotechnology company. The commission is...
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Here's hoping for a fairer share
Your headline "Let's throw away Greenaway" (Letters, THES, July 14) certainly amused my colleagues but is premature given the arguments advanced. If Tim Curtin reads the report, he will find an...
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Arson link to Pacific tests
One Friday night back in June Bosco Boscovich went out to dinner in Perth, Australia, with some friends from Curtin University. After a bottle or two of wine the talk turned to the decision by the...
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Eyewitness: Kuwait's clues to mankind's maritime experiments
North of Kuwait City towards the Iraqi border, the road rises over the Mutlaa Ridge, a sandstone scarp that provides the only relief in the flat desert landscape. Here, the final, bloody and one-...
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Election may halt top-ups
Thousands of prospective university students in Australia will not know until late next month what course fees they will have to pay in January. The students have to complete their applications for...