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Kuala Lumpur Malaysian public university courses will be rated by a quality assurance agency to be established "as soon as possible", education minister Musa Mohamad has announced. The quality rating...
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Czech students protest over broken funding promise
A row over higher education funding in the Czech Republic has triggered student protests in several universities. The protests continued even after the immediate cause of the students' grievance had...
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£2.4m bid to support small firms
The University of Bradford has launched a £2.4 million scheme to support university collaboration with small and medium-sized enterprises. The largest initiative in the scheme will promote innovation...
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Tall tales of Timbuktu
It is a byword for remoteness, but Timbuktu's fabled reputation in the West as an exotic city of great riches may have been a case of mistaken identity, archaeologists believe. An excavation of...
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Sandia's 'Holy Grail' sucks arsenic from water
There may be hope for the victims of the Bangladesh arsenic poisoning catastrophe. Chemists at the Sandia National Laboratory in the United States have developed a process to strip the deadly toxin...
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Gats poses threat to public learning
Canada's public university system lies unprotected under key international trade rules, according to a recent legal opinion. An international trade law firm contradicted the Canadian government's...
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Hunter traps venture expert
An expert in entrepreneurship research has been lured back to Scotland by Strathclyde University's multimillion-pound Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship. Edinburgh-born Colin Mason, a geography and...
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Glittering prizes
University College Worcester has awarded honorary degrees to: Waqar Azmi , chief executive of the Worcestershire Racial Equality Council; and Debbie Horsfield , who writes drama for theatre and...
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On the move
The University of Dundee has appointed Philip Andrews-Speed , a former executive with British Petroleum, executive director of its Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. The...
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Un-Wellcome emails
Want a prosperous future, money-earning power and the admiration of all? Then don't contact the Wellcome Trust. The biomedical research charity has spent the past week informing people that it was...
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Nearly all change
Superior Cheltenham now boasts the country's newest university, the University of Gloucestershire. The Royal Automobile Club immediately put up roadsigns reflecting the name change. However, the...
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She is Goodenough
Eyebrows were raised when The Diary spotted that prolific don's diarist Geraldine Van Bueren, professor of international human rights law at Queen Mary, University of London, had been appointed Wates...
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Not counting on Carol
Look out Carol Vorderman. A computer scientist from the University of Nottingham has developed a computer program that can solve the numbers game from Channel 4's quiz show Countdown faster than she...
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V-cs left off Tony's list
Prime minister Tony Blair this week hosted a soirée for higher education. Some 200 people attended the Downing Street event, the theme of which was excellence in higher education. A guest list...
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Schoolboy starts chaos
Lewisham College in London has come under attack from cyberspace. Shortly after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, principal Ruth Silver was contacted by the FBI because a schoolboy...