Irish conflict
Ciara Farren, the daughter of Northern Ireland's minister for further and higher education, is to stand in the next general election. While her father, a former University of Ulster academic, runs in...
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Canny calculations
It may normally take Scottish students a year longer than their English counterparts to graduate, but Aberdeen University has just been contacted by the Guinness Book of Records about an 18th-century...
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On the move
Education secretary David Blunkett today appointed the following as directors of the holding company for the e-university : Bob Boucher , vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield; Sandra...
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World watch
Naples A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the director of Naples University's food science department for allegedly helping the Neapolitan Mafia with a bogus butter scam. Francesco Addeo...
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World view: Dare we toss out the test?
A move away from aptitude tests for admissions has reignited debates over access, writes Sheldon Rothblatt. The president of the multi-campus University of California wants to drop the Sat, a...
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Eyewitness: South Georgia
A British Antarctic Survey research station opened last week on South Georgia in the south Atlantic as the last British troops, stationed there since the Falklands war with Argentina in 1982,...
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Cash penalty for Danish delays
Copenhagen University's arts faculty has been hit hard by a new mechanism that ties funding to the success rate of students. Denmark's cash-per-student funding system means that a reduction in the...
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Rectors: dropouts disgrace must end
Italy's rectors have published a 52-page white paper appealing to the government for more resources. On the State of Italian Universities: The Charter of Rights and Duties in the Year of Change also...
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Closure due to 'Islamic threat'
Turkey's higher education authorities have closed down a university as part of a crackdown on Islamic activities in higher education. In an unprecedented move, the country's higher education...
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Poll fears give dons high hopes
Australian academics have called for a A$1 billion (£347 million) a year boost in federal spending on universities. They believe that their government's lowest opinion poll rating since it came into...
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Latest international news
Melbourne recruitment failure attracts scrutiny Australian authorities are investigating the failure by Melbourne Private University to recruit adequate numbers of students. The three-year-...
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Latest UK news
Rejected Conan Doyle story published A short story written when Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an 18-year-old medical student was published for the first time today. The...
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Higher education grants
Royal Society Graeme Taylor , senior lecturer in geophysics from the University of Plymouth has been awarded a Royal Society Grant of £7,350, to carry out palaeomagnetic research in northern...
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Higher education awards
University of Southampton Philip Leverhulme prizes have been awarded to Nils Andersson of the department of Mathematics and Andrew Roberts of the school of Ocean and Earth Science. Timothy Reuter of...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times President Bush's citation of scientific uncertainty as a reason to reject the Kyoto protocol has been met with dismay from most climate scientists. Proposals to use technology to...