Complaints cut in half by early action
Nottingham Trent University has cut its student complaints by 50 per cent with a project designed to nip problems in the bud. As students become fee-paying customers, universities fear litigation....
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Custom course to plug brain drain
Loughborough University has been chosen to pioneer a course aimed at plugging the graduate brain drain in the East Midlands. The region traditionally loses two-thirds of those who study there. It...
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Findings: Birds confound founder theory
New species emerge through gradual evolution and not through sudden jumps, according to a new study of sea birds, writes Steve Farrar. Computer modelling and analysis of DNA from populations of...
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Findings: Egyptians kept building simple
The golden section was first mentioned by Euclid about 300 BC. Approximately the ratio of 8:5, this number is believed to have particular aesthetic balance and beauty. It is commonly used to explain...
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Prize idea comes out of TA trip to Kosovo
The leader of an entrepreneurial student team that has scooped £10,000 in a national business plan competition developed his award-winning idea while serving with the Territorial Army in Kosovo....
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Europe aims for top at Wem
Europeans were hustling at the World Education Market in Lisbon last week hoping to capture a large slice of the emerging e-learning business. They were on home ground for the first time since Wem, a...
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Generous grants to woo foreign stars
Germany is offering top foreign scientists fellowships of up to 30 per cent higher than the normal rate to conduct their research at German universities and research institutes. The Alexander von...
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US still appealing despite terror fear
International students have continued to apply to American universities in large numbers, despite intense competition from other nations and concerns about terrorism, US officials say. Universities...
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Ottawa
The Canadian Association of University Teachers has called in the International Labour Organisation to investigate claims that British Columbia has contravened internationally ratified labour...
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Brussels
European Union ministers have been asked to approve a draft research cooperation agreement struck between the European Commission and Ukraine. The deal would allow exchanges of information and...
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Washington DC
The World Bank is lending $50 million (£34 million) to Egypt to fund improvements to the governance and management of universities and in the teaching of information technology, electronics and human...
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Brussels
European Union external affairs commissioner Chris Patten has launched the Alban programme, funding study awards for 3,900 Latin American students and research workers to study and conduct research...
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Verkhnyaya Salda
A remote Russian technical institute wants to be renamed after the Queen Mother. Staff and students at the Alexei Yevstigneyev college in the Urals Sverdlovsk region, named for a local hero who died...
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SA centre will focus on Aids epidemic
A British-funded, university-backed epidemiological research project has been launched in rural South Africa, on the doorstep of the area known as the "Aids capital of the world". The Africa Centre...
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Vietnamese students snubbed on return home
An opportunity to study abroad is a dream for most Vietnamese students. Those able to enjoy this privilege can look forward to excellent career prospects and top salaries. But a rising number of...