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Universities Scotland is spotlighting the ways in which higher education institutions work together, arguing that Scotland is the ideal size for collaboration. It has sent a brochure outlining 36...
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Boost for Spain in language market
Spain's universities and private language schools, which are already reaping the benefits of soaring global demand for Spanish-language tuition, want to increase their share of the market. Spanish is...
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Czech rectors told to raise more cash
Czech education minister Eduard Zeman has told universities to treble the amount of money they raise from independent sources to help meet demand for wider access to degree courses. Mr Zeman, whose...
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Danes aim to boost technology research
Denmark's new Liberal-Conservative government has brought universities, research activity and research policy under one ministry of science, technology and innovation. Universities, the research...
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Italy to set up ethical code for institutions
Italy's universities are preparing to adopt codes of ethics aimed at combating sexual harassment, as required by a 1991 European Union directive on workplaces. Equal opportunities committees, which...
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Joint project on Lake Chad
A ten-year collaboration between Nigeria's University of Maiduguri and the University of Frankfurt is yielding insights into the basin of Lake Chad and its environment. The lake, once one of Africa's...
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News in brief
Rome At a mass at St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Pope John Paul II told 10,000 students from 20 European countries that Europe needed "a new intellectual vitality" based on the "courage of free and...
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A better life for those in the 100 club
France has launched an institute to study the issues raised by its ageing population. Jane Marshall meets the eminence grise who will lead the effort. He may not look like a pensioner, but...
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Cutting edge: Peter Taylor-Gooby
How resilient are the different welfare systems across Europe as the claims made upon them rise? Governments across Europe face the dilemma of squaring the welfare circle. Electorates are...
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Get out into the real world
The public will appreciate social scientists only when they make the case for their work's value to society, argues David Walker. Social scientists ought to be singing "happy days are here again"....
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Scots crow over results
THES reporters look at how RAE results have improved and put Hefce on the spot. Scotland is hailing a rate of improvement that outstrips other parts of the United Kingdom. Half of Scottish...
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APPOINTMENTS University of Bristol Richard Fortey , currently merit researcher in the department of palaeontology in the Natural History Museum, has been appointed to the Collier chair in the public...
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Upstaging itself
We visited six departments before today's results were announced to find out how they were preparing for the RAE. Warwick: Theatre studies 1996: 5, 2001: 5* Staff: 9 (full-time equivalent) Imagine...
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Star puts shine on downcast department
We visited six departments before today's results were announced to find out how they were preparing for the RAE. Cambridge University: Pathology 1996:5, 2001: 5* Staff: 84 (full-time equivalent)...
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How you were judged
The research assessment exercise operates through a process of peer review. Some 60 panels comprised of about a dozen academics and representatives from industry and organisations such as the...