No baths as York floods
York University was struggling to stay in operation this week following the worst flooding in the city for more than 400 years. Staff and students were being asked not to take baths and to keep loo-...
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Warsaw conclave backs liberal arts
Thirty-nine of Eastern Europe's leading universities and colleges have signed a declaration calling for greater recognition and support for liberal arts education in the region. The "declaration of...
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Hub of activity for start-ups
A network of enterprise hubs linked to local universities will soon be providing support to entrepreneurs and start-up businesses across southeast England. According to Anthony Dunnett, chief...
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Incubator aids Scottish firms
Peter Denyer, the Edinburgh University professor who founded the spin-off "camera-on-a-chip" Vision Company, has helped found another spin-off that aims to become the world's leading provider of...
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Small change for Italy online
The millennium year will be remembered as the period in which Italian universities took to online teaching with gusto. As the academic year began in Italy's 65-odd state universities, from the Alps...
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Net students beat classroom rivals
Online students at the University of Phoenix get better results than their counterparts who physically attend classes, according to its former president. Jorge Klor de Alva last month told the Fusion...
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Stylish launch for pilot scheme
Two Kingston University undergraduates have played a major part in developing a design — still a closely guarded industrial secret — that could make airborne travel more comfortable. Mandeep Jarnail...
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Ventures fail to show profit
The commercial arms of many of Australia's universities are in serious financial trouble and, far from turning the intellectual property of their scholars into profits, they are losing millions of...
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Fertilise minds and end Europe's farming crisis
Farming and the countryside are in the mire, says Michael Alder. Can education dig them out? With declining farm incomes, escalating fuel costs, consumer confidence dented by the BSE affair and...
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Upping the ante, as things may not get better
Chancellor Gordon Brown's eagerly awaited pre-budget statement was unveiled on Wednesday, giving voters a first indication of how the Labour government plans to use its prudently accumulated war...
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Silence is tarnished
It is time for the West to admit to the damage it does, say David Cromwell and David Edwards As Britain continues to suffer the most extreme weather since that storm in October 1987, media attention...
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UK must be allowed to unwrap stem cell gift
Give scientists in Britain the freedom to conduct research using cloned embryo cells, says Richard Gardner MPs and Lords will soon be asked to vote on a proposal to allow research on stem cells...
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Why I believe email snooping is a threat to academic freedom
Surveillance has become a pathology in the British workplace. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which came into force last month, provides a legal framework for employers to snoop on how...
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Cutting edge: Konrad Seppelt
Near the end of the 19th century, the periodic system of the elements was developed by the Russian Dmitri Mendelejev and the German Viktor Meyer. From then on, every single element had its proper...
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End of an era for innovation
The ESRC's five-year innovation programme ended in September. Caroline Davis examines its impact on research. Whisky, manhole covers and periscopes were among the subjects studied in a recent...