Irish effort to temper high spirits
Drunkenness among students in Ireland has risen substantially above the European Union average in the past year, a conference in Dublin was told last week. Beer is still the most popular drink, but...
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International news in brief
Abuja Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the deployment of security agents to all 30 federal universities after two lecturers and 20 students died in fighting between predominantly...
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Reforms offer French new freedoms
As more than 1.5 million students start a new academic year, French universities are becoming more autonomous within a looser higher education system. Education minister Jack Lang has called on...
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School's 'deceit' creates a furore
The European School of Economics, an Italian private university founded on a validation contract with Nottingham Trent University, has been accused of advertising "officially recognised" degree...
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Students fight police profiling
Student leaders at Berlin's Humboldt University are taking legal action against city police chief Hagen Saberchinsky amid growing student protests over "profiling" of...
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Airline collapse hits universities
The collapse of Australia's second biggest airline, Ansett, has not only put 17,000 of its employees out of work but is expected to cost the nation's universities at least A$25 million a year (£8.8...
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Bombing disrupts webcast
News of the military strikes on Afghanistan and the resulting internet traffic bumped a 24-hour live broadcast on distance education off its principal website. When early bombing reports came in,...
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Brewers raise a glass to teen project
A team of Austrian teenagers has invented an automatic beer-tap system guaranteed to pull the perfect pint. The project was the brainchild of student Thomas Schick, 17, who invented it after visiting...
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China logs on to online universities
The 46 Chinese universities approved by the government to run internet courses have enrolled about 400,000 students in the past year. The ministry of education said that by the end of the five-year...
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MBA tables 'unfair to Europe'
MBA league tables published by financial journals are based on flawed methodologies and unfairly show European business schools to be less competitive than those in the United States, according to...
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Agony aunt
Q : How can a tutor quell students' fears about this war on terrorism? A : Such fears are a comprehensible response to a very real threat, so I am not sure that "quelling" them is possible or...
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Words against weapons
Teaching students about tolerance and understanding is all the more difficult since the war on terrorism, writes D. J. Chandler. How much harder it has become to teach peace and tolerance on American...
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Star Turn: Andrew Hurrell
'This is your life' could well be the alternative title to a powerful lecture on international relations with particular resonance for one Oxford University postgraduate. Julia Hinde reports Andrew...
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Germany joins battle for Nobels
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. The cosmopolitan US is proving a hard act for Germany to follow, Jennie Brookman writes. The German scientific community was...
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More migratory Canadians are flying back home
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. Canada cannot offer US resources, but it is fighting back. There's a drinking game in the bars of Los Angeles called Dead,...