Sex taboos broken
The law faculty at Uganda's Makerere University has taken on cultural taboos by condemning sexual harassment and outlining penalties for those who commit it. The move comes after female students were...
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Ghanaian duo blazes research trail
Ghana's aspiration to be a middle-income economy by 2020 is being aided by a new scholarship scheme that sends research students to the UK. Unilever chairman Niall FitzGerald launched the Unilever...
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Private postgrad pioneer launched in Lagos
Nigeria's only private postgraduate university has opened in Lagos with 50 students. The Pan African University is to focus on training managers and decision-makers in Nigeria's growing banking and...
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Australia unveils rival to Fulbright
Australia has established a scholarship scheme as an Antipodean rival to the Rhodes and Fulbright programmes. It will offer awards to 16 Australian and overseas postgraduates each year. The General...
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US imposes honour code to deter cheats
Before they took their final examinations this semester, students at the University of Maryland had to turn to a page of the test booklets and sign their names. "I pledge on my honor," each student...
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Europe urged to get a move on
Viviane Reding, the European Union's commissioner for education, has admitted a lot more work remains to be done to make the European higher education area a reality by 2010. "We are still far away...
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French opt for English
English is the dominant language in an updated series of journals published by the French Academy of Sciences. The journals, which used to be called Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences ,...
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Valencia wants EU loan for rebuilding
The European Investment Bank is considering plans to lend four universities in the Valencia region of Spain up to €85 million (£55 million) for a wide range of building projects to improve their...
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Russia tempts foreigners with tailor-made courses
Russia is fast developing a new export industry - tailor-made courses in everything from cultural studies to business practices in the post-Communist world. St Petersburg's North-West Technical...
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In the news: David Paterson
The Venice Lagoon is rarely mentioned in the same breath as Morecambe Bay and the Forth Estuary. But this week it was announced that St Andrews University coastal specialist David Paterson will...
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Don's diary: Cry for Argentina
Monday My birthday. One short of the big 50. Don't feel as old as that, except when I look in the mirror. Leave for Buenos Aires, where I am contributing to a masters course in small business...
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Outside chance
The University of Cambridge appears keen to appoint an external candidate to the vice-chancellor's post. The current incumbent, Sir Alec Broers, is due to leave in September 2003. Despite setting up...
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007 lent a hand
The next James Bond film, Die Another Day , due for release on November 22, will feature high-tech surgical instruments from Imperial College, London. The college lent the film producers its Da Vinci...
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Doofaas and Boojums
After learning that the project to put postdocs into schools has been dubbed Inspire, after INovative Scheme for Postdocs In Research and Education (back page), the Diary was delighted to discover a...
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No fine for cone return
More than 100 items including traffic cones and street signs have been returned under an amnesty at St Andrews University. Students had been asked to return the spoils of their nights out on the town...