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Sex firewall prompts name change Philadelphia’s Beaver College is to rename itself Arcadia University next July after discovering that internet systems designed to screen out sexually...
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Latest UK news
£1 billion boost for UK colleges Education secretary David Blunkett has announced a £1 billion fillip for UK further education colleges to promote centres of excellence in vocational...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN Leaders of sections of the Iranian national student movement, which was largely responsible for Mohammad Khatami's rise to power, have declared his presidency a failure and are vowing to...
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Daily TV & radio - Tuesday
Unearthing Mysteries (11.00 am R4). The mystery of the smashed statues of Bacchus found in Romania; Aubrey Manning talks with Birkbeck’s Ian Haynes and others. File on 4 (8.00 R4). Chile since...
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Higher education appointments
University of Lancaster Barbara Maher , formerly at the University of East Anglia is to be appointed a chair in physical geography. Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College Mark...
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Higher education awards & prizes
University of the West of England Stephen Brown has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of the Family Division of the High...
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Latest UK news
Funding packages target poor Students from low-income families will benefit from two packages announced today. A £1.7 million scheme funded by the Royal Bank of Scotland will help improve...
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Latest international news
More Britons choose a US education The number of UK students enrolled at US universities has reached a high of 8,046, up 2.9 per cent on 1998-99. But enrolments from other countries have risen faster...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Instituto de Empresa in Madrid is launching an international executive MBA with an online component The American business school accreditation body has integrated its global arm into...
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Daily TV & radio - Monday
Start the Week (9.00 am R4). Jeremy Paxman with Robert Skidelsky and philosopher AC Grayling (biographers of Keynes and Hazlitt, respectively). Work in Progress (10.00 am R3 and rest of week). Carol...
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Daily TV & radio - Sunday
Music Shanghaied (12.05 R3). Musical life in Shanghai – part of Radio 3’s China season. » New China Adventures in Poetry (4.30 R4). Peggy Reynolds (QMW) continues her interestingly-researched series...
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Daily TV & radio - Saturday
The Sky at Night (11.35 am BBC2). Project Darwin, the plan to search for extra-solar planets using several spacecraft. With Alan Penny of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Patrick Moore (repeat...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES A "memory pill" that could repair the ability of our brains to learn and remember may be available within a decade, according to scientists from the Wolfson Institute of Biomedical...
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Next week in The THES
NEWS Research allocations: who gets what FEATURES John Kay on the art of indecision and why he left Oxford's Business School RESEARCH A glimpse inside your polluted home Bat hunting in Madagascar...
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La Paz: millions spent on quality
Bolivia is to use a $5 million (£3.5 million) contribution from the World Bank to help create a national accreditation council for the promotion of quality in Bolivian universities.