Students' designs aim high
The challenge of designing a futuristic hotel in outer space has stretched to the limits the skills of students at Germany's Darmstadt Technical University. The students were challenged by the German...
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Spanish bill attacked by coalition
The Spanish government's new law to regulate universities is coming under attack from all sides - rectors, unions, students, the opposition and regional government. The bill, known as the...
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Czech funding pledge broken
The rector of central Europe's oldest university is considering resigning after repeated government promises to provide more funding for the sector were broken. Ivan Wilhelm, rector of Charles...
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Local row threatens national pay talks
Two of the chief negotiators in forthcoming "friendly" discussions between lecturers' union Natfhe and university employers, are embroiled in a row over contracts. Jill Jones, chair of Natfhe's...
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QAA to monitor entry practice
New rules to stamp out prejudice in university admissions have been published by the Quality Assurance Agency. Amid persistent concerns that working-class and some ethnic minority students are...
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Skills drought in flood studies
A drought of water engineering skills could hamper efforts to deal with flooding in the United Kingdom, a leading expert has warned. George Fleming, head of water and environmental management at...
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Peaceful teach-in 'says that war is not inevitable'
A teach-in redolent of anti-Vietnam protests during the 1960s is part of the peculiarly academic response to the war on terrorism, writes Alison Utley. Malcolm Povey, a lecturer in food sciences at...
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Lab codes examined amid fear of biowar
The government is considering tighter security for deadly micro organisms and toxins after the terrorist attacks on the United States. The discussions coincide with universities across the United...
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NUS has 'excited phobia of Islam'
The president of Cambridge University's student union has criticised the National Union of Students for the "whipping-up of Islamophobia" following the terrorist attacks on America. Pav Akhtar said...
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Muslims discard scarf
Student officers are concerned about the absence of women in traditional Muslim dress on university campuses. Kathryn Edwards, communications officer at Leeds University, said the shift was of great...
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International students may stay away in wake of atrocities
Universities are waiting to see whether the numbers of international students turning up will be lower than expected in the wake of the September 11 atrocities, writes Cherry Canovan. At London...
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Institute with designs on how we live
The home of the Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea is an appropriate one, in the traditional cradle of Italy's most enlightened industrial design. It was in Ivrea, a small town north of Turin,...
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Go public or perish
Philip Fine looks at how academics can get politicians' attention to influence policy Kevin Gorey knows that ever since Hillary Clinton failed to get universal healthcare for the country her husband...
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Findings
Smoking may blow away blues Tobacco smoke may act on the brain like an antidepressant drug, scientists have found. The results of a three-year study may provide another clue as to why kicking the...
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Germany creates IT research superpower
Europe's largest research body has £160m a year, 2,000 staff and big ambitions. Jennie Brookman writes Germany has created Europe's largest research body for information and communication technology...