Bowled over by speech
Two members of the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee clashed last week - not over policies, but ancient Greek pronunciation. Liberal Democrat MSP George Lyon accused...
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In the news: Dianna Bowles
In the space of a few hours this week, Dianna Bowles managed to raise £60,000 to establish a gene bank in an 11th-hour bid to save the rare Herdwick sheep from extinction due to foot-and-mouth...
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World watch
Algiers Two hundred teachers from the National University of Algeria have signed a statement condemning what they call the orchestrated campaign against the Algerian army in a book, La Sale Guerre (...
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World view: When we are what we do
Is the shrinking gap between work and play creating psychologically weaker workers? asks Dorothy Zinberg. When a frigid wind blew me into the atrium of New York's Museum of Modern Art, the first...
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Eyewitness: Austrian scientists come to terms with Nazi legacy
The image of Austrian universities as victims of Nazi terror during Hitler's seven-year occupation was dealt a blow at an academic symposium in Vienna last month. Many scientists stayed in Austria...
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Vision of lifelong learning put at the heart of OECD target
Governments must step up their efforts to encourage lifelong learning, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The conclusions of the latest edition of the...
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Degree unity sparks friction
The move towards a common European higher education system is happening faster than many people realise, delegates to Salamanca 2001, the Convention of European Higher Education Institutions, heard...
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Oman opens private option
Oman has turned to private universities to plug the yawning gap between school-leavers' demand for higher education and the supply of places at the sultanate's elite university. But it is determined...
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Survey queries clinical ethics
Nearly half the medical students questioned in a recently released survey have performed procedures they felt were unethical. The 1997 survey of University of Toronto medical students has revealed...
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Oz inquiry into spinoff failure
The first private offshoot of a public university in Australia is under investigation by state and federal authorities. Melbourne University Private was set up by the University of Melbourne in 1998...
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Russians outraged by their dead's end
Russians were horrified after a television station alleged that 56 corpses of prisoners and homeless men were sent from Siberia to Germany for scientific preservation at a controversial anatomical...
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Woman's touch is needed
Danish research needs females - and foreigners - to get back on track, Michael de Laine writes Being a researcher at a Danish university or public-sector research institutions is so unattractive that...
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Australia offers A$1m prize to researchers
Australia is hoping to attract top researchers from around the world with the offer of highly competitive fellowships. Launching the scheme in Canberra on Tuesday, federal education minister David...
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EU body backs research into mobile danger
Researchers from across the European Union are to be invited to participate in a series of joint studies, one of which will examine whether the electromagnetic fields created by mobile telephones are...
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Enzyme could aid longevity
A "guardian" protein that protects the genome against wear and tear is helping scientists to explore the biochemical roots of longevity. Genetically modified hamster cells that produce high...