Swiss to balance gender scales
Switzerland is pouring millions of francs into tackling the gender imbalance in universities. The Swiss confederation has earmarked SFr16 million (£6.5 million) for general universities and SFr10...
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Adult access model muddled
A single national fund is needed for the prime minister's vision of a broadband Britain to become a reality, according to a leading e-learning expert. The broadband network is considered essential...
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Lid is off on drink contract secrecy
Details of a confidential contract under which Coca-Cola Bottling Ltd agreed to pay a Vancouver university for exclusive soft-drink sales have finally emerged after an almost six-year legal battle....
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IT news in brief
Brazil Microsoft deal blocked by court Magistrates have blocked Brazil's education ministry's purchase of 233,000 Windows-programmed personal computers from Microsoft following the revelation that...
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Eyewitness: University test for Macedonia peace plan
The Albanian-taught University of Tetovo reopens this autumn but its role in the reconciliation process between ethnic Albanians and the Macedonian authorities is still unclear. Founded in 1994, the...
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World Watch
Bonn Bonn University is facing criticism for failing to detail the record of Joseph Goebbels, a former student and Nazi propaganda minister, in an illustrated book that lists details of other...
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World View: 'Big Mac' is hard to swallow
A move to 'state-of-the-art' Mary Ann Cofrin Hall, aka Big Mac, is far from ideal for Harvey Kaye's department The big day has finally arrived. My colleagues and I move into a brand-new building,...
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Marine craft finds bilge pump useful
My goals on embarking on the life of an academic were simplistic and somewhat naive: to conduct exciting, novel, relevant research in oceanography and to communicate my findings to a wider community...
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Lessons in the never-never
Student loans are encouraging a debt culture among young people, warn Alan Lewis and Adrian Scott Parents are worried about the effect of debt on their children. A recent national survey that we co-...
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Redirect that data
Race is a political myth, argues Tukufu Zuberi, and it is time we used racial statistics to prove it The idea of a cause-and-effect relationship between race and social status emerged from...
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Why I urge vigilance against scientific fraud
It seems that there is an "epidemic of falsification" in science, from outright fakery of results to the "massaging of data". Fortunately the phenomenon remains rare, involving only occasional bad...
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Surf search for IT factor
eTutor of the Year 2001 competition judge Pat Leon describes the qualities the judging panel were looking for in this year's entrants Entries for the first eTutor of the Year 2001 competition show...
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Agony aunt
Sally Brown Director of membership services, Institute for Learning and Teaching The Institute for Learning and Teaching was set up as a result of the 1997 Dearing report with a remit to enhance the...
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How to put first-years on right track
Teaching students the skills and discipline of study at the outset can save a lot of trouble later on, says Chris Hopkins. University can be a shock. Not only in terms of accommodation and finance,...
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Will we drown in a sea of jelly?
Theories of Earth's demise from the BA Festival of Science in Glasgow, September 3-7 Some physicists say all matter is poised to disintegrate. Ben Allanach asks if we should be losing sleep over the...