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Lib Dems' student loan pledge The Liberal Democrats have published their Youth Manifesto this week, promising student loans for all young people studying below degree level and greater funding parity...
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Financial Times Plans to set up a Welsh baccalaureate for university entrance have been dealt a blow by the refusal of the International Baccalaureate Organisation to become involved. Researchers...
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Protesting Ethiopian students face expulsion Riot police in Ethiopia have clashed with students from the University of Addis Ababa in protests over the way the campus is guarded. The...
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Terrorists access nuclear arsenal The leakage of expertise and smuggling of nuclear material from the former Soviet Union have given terrorist groups a new capacity for destruction, Paul Wilkinson,...
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The Financial Times Stockbroker TD Waterhouse is the latest financial group to sever links with Huntingdon Life Sciences after pressure from animal rights protesters. The Daily Mail Fears are growing...
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Paisley names new prinicipal Paisley University has appointed John Macklin, currently pro vice-chancellor at Leeds University, principal from October. He will succeed Richard Shaw, who has been...
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The Times Independent schools are snubbing the first exams of the new A-level curriculum, raising fears that a two-tier system is opening up across sixth forms. Vitali Valstev, a scientist from...
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US body urges end to derogatory nicknames The US Commission on Civil Rights has urged colleges to stop using American Indian nicknames and mascots. It said their use by non-tribal colleges created a...
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Universities urged to go green Universities and colleges were today urged to become more involved in promoting sustainable development, in the third report of the sustainable development...
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The Guardian Roger Bilham, of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Philip England, of Oxford University, have solved the riddle of the Assam earthquake of 1897, the worst in modern history,...
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Campus killing triggers riots
More than 1,000 Ugandan students from Makerere University battled with riot police on the streets of the capital, Kampala, last week after the second fatal shooting of a student in the space of four...
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Smear tactics spread HIV fear
Nigerian health authorities destroyed thousands of sanitary towel samples distributed free to students because of false allegations by Muslim fundamentalists that they were contaminated with the HIV...
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Student intake limited in Kenya
Public universities in Kenya are limiting their first-year intake this year despite pressure from the president, Daniel arap Moi, to double numbers after many students in 1999 were left without...
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Free online material causes rethink in US
A decision by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make nearly all its course materials available free online is prompting US academic institutions to re-examine plans for online courses....
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Screen saver will aid search for cancer cure
Forget flying windows screen savers during those idle moments - help to solve the riddle of cancer instead. Researchers from Oxford University hope that as many as 1 million people will download...