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Edinburgh University recently hosted an interdisciplinary conference, organised by its Metamorphosis student society, on how to make work more interesting, creative, healthy, inspiring, fun and...
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On the move
Jocelyn Bell Burnell , professor of physics at the Open University, has been appointed dean of science at the University of Bath . Charles Bodman Rae , director of studies at the Royal Northern...
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Glittering prizes
City University will award honorary degrees to: Sir Richard Wilson , cabinet secretary and head of the home civil service; Clive Leyman , former chief aerodynamicist on Concorde; journalist Simon...
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In the news: David Currie
The new dean of the City University Business School plans to haul it from the lower ranks of the business school league tables to become one of the world's premier clubs. Months after defecting from...
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World view: A nation's search for self
C. W. Watson examines the steps Indonesia is taking to ensure that identity does not become a crisis. Well aware of the fragility of the unity of the Indonesian state, successive governments have...
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World Watch
Princeton Princeton University's trustees have chosen its first female president. Shirley Tilghman, a senior molecular biology professor, will take over from Harold Shapiro in June. Arlington The...
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Eyewitness: Universal education targets hit snags
As the world economy slows and the Bush administration displays a degree of ambiguity over its aid policies, targets set last year in Dakar for gender equity in schools by 2005 and universal primary...
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Books left behind in race to be modern
Earlier this year, Vietnam unveiled its first learning resource centre, at the University of Danang. The only thing missing was books. Such contradictions are not uncommon in Vietnam. The clamour to...
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Germany uses test to raise its appeal
Germany has launched a standardised test of German as a foreign language as part of its drive to make its universities more attractive to foreign students. The Deutsch als Fremdsprache Test (TestDaF...
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Mexico's elite recovers from rocky ride
A seismic shift in the organisation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Unam) is planned by its rector, Juan Ramon de la Fuente. The former government health secretary and Unam academic...
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Dons attack decision to sack outspoken scholar
Australian academics have called on the international community to protest against the sacking of a colleague at the University of Wollongong who claimed he was ordered to increase his students'...
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Web remembrance
The air attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into the second world war will be re-enacted on the web this month. Osprey Publishing is launching a virtual re-enactment of the attack...
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Wary Toronto drops out of U21
The University of Toronto has become the first member of the global consortium Universitas 21 to quit the group after expressing concern over plans to set up an online university selling postgraduate...
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Campus is best training ground
About 50 per cent of universities are expected to have some form of relationship with companies to provide training for their employees within five years. The current figure is 20 per cent, according...
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UK skill travels to Sri Lanka
The University of Keele has licensed the first overseas MSc programme in information technology in Sri Lanka, a country that is keen to rival the success of its neighbour India in becoming a software...