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Dons snub QAA review teams Lecturers have delivered a blow to the Quality Assurance Agency’s regime by refusing to sign up as academic reviewers. A motion passed at the annual council of the...
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California ditches affirmative action ban The University of California has dropped a six-year ban on the use of affirmative action in its admission procedures. The move is essentially symbolic. State...
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Financial Times Ali Afshari, one of Iran's most prominent student leaders and a leading member of the pro-reform Office to Foster Unity, who was arrested more than five months ago, has been shown on...
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Presidents threaten mass resignation All Greece's university presidents have threatened to resign unless the government modifies legislation being voted on in parliament today to upgrade technical...
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London merger on the cards London Guildhall University and the University of North London today announced a strategic collaboration with a view to a merger which would create one of the largest...
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Daily Telegraph Scientists at Mie University, near Tokyo, have discovered a way of turning newspapers and waste paper back into wood. The Times A team of Greek archaeologists say that they may have...
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Lib Dems' manifesto has student poverty focus Scrapping undergraduate tuition fees and restoring grants for poorer students are among the promises in the Liberal Democrat manifesto launched today....
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Financial Times Bristol and Bath are to be the first universities in the UK to form a joint venture science park. Stefan Wagstyl says that Akademgorodok, the campus town housing Russia's scientific...
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19-year-old awarded doctorate in physics Nineteen-year-old John Carter, who entered college at the age of ten, has been awarded a doctorate in physics from the University of Arkansas....
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Financial Times A series of youthful appointments to head some of the world's leading business schools marks the retirement of the old guard and points to an increased emphasis on the latest forms of...
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Scientists lobby party leaders Scientists are lobbying the political party leaders to canvass support for British research. The Save British Science organisation has been urging people to raise...
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NEWS Election 2001: what the manifestos promise for higher education FEATURES Tim Flannery describes how North America has plundered its natural resources BOOKS The "meme" meme: fertile or sterile?...
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Teachers still needed in e-learning world E-learning will change the role and skills of teachers but not eliminate them altogether, according to an Institute for Employment Studies report published...
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Academic 'terrorised' by English PhD numbers
Excessive recruitment to PhD programmes in English is causing a "major social disaster", says Annabel Patterson, a British professor in the English department at Yale University, in the United States...
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GM trials threaten organic research
Researchers investigating organic farming have called for a genetically modified crop trial in Warwickshire to be abandoned after it emerged that it threatens the Henry Doubleday Research Association...