Frozen north out in the cold
Fewer Canadian researchers are joining the multinational teams conducting studies in the country's north, according to a task force report. Canada's northern research is deteriorating, says the...
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Students who kidnapped staff face expulsion
The senate of Nigeria's Delta State University has unanimously resolved to expel the leaders of the student union who took part in the kidnapping of the university's vice-chancellor, Ovie Igun. The...
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V-cs reject 'divisive' overhaul
South African vice-chancellors have rejected government proposals to change radically the size and shape of higher education. They opposed forced mergers and a three-tier system that would in effect...
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Scheme plans big jobs boost with small firms
A pioneering graduate employment scheme in Edinburgh believes it can promote jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises to 10,000 Scottish graduates a year if it goes nationwide. Margaret Allan,...
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Sponsor wooed by 3D study
Tudor cottages and suburban semis will grace the landscape of the next version of a classic computer game thanks to students at the Kent Institute for Art and Design (Kiad). The UK edition of Sim...
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Wap gets the campus call
Alongside the Investors in People and Queen's Award plaques, most campus receptions prominently display a mobile phone ban. But a rehabilitation of the mobile menace is on the cards. Administrators...
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Europe to strengthen LatAm links
Many Latin American executives still look to North America for their management training needs, but signs of a shift in focus to Europe were visible at a recent conference in Barcelona. More than 200...
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Incubator helps to nurture research and commerce
Belfast's first e-business incubator has just opened in the Springvale Education Village, the pioneering peaceline initiative involving Ulster University and the Belfast Institute of Further and...
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Suspended animation
(Photograph) - Suspended animation: Richard Lampitt of Southampton Oceanography Centre checks the light quality of the lasers on the £1 million 3D camera that is designed to record plankton life more...
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Britain attracts NI students
The number of full-time undergraduates from Northern Ireland on courses in mainland Britain and the Republic of Ireland has risen by 64 per cent over the past decade to 38,414 in 1999-2000. The...
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Let's make a date
Yet another reason to read The THES: check on your forthcoming engagements. Andrew Cubie discovered last week through our news pages that he had been scheduled to give evidence on student support to...
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Lessons of Milosevic's fall
Academics put up little resistance to Milosevic, but they have been quick to act after his fall, says Goran Milicevic. Serbian universities have awoken quickly from the lethargy into which they had...
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Shopping and sex get even more appealing
People who enjoy themselves without feeling guilty are less likely to become ill, according to researchers at Hull University. Eating chocolate, drinking, shopping and sex were all given the seal of...
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Clarification
Not all the institutions identified as missing benchmarks in the article on performance indicators ("Paisley puts the elite to shame", THES, October 6) had missed them by a statistically significant...
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Member states urged to raise research funds
Cern, the European particle physics laboratory, will lose its place as a front-runner in fundamental particle research because some member states refuse to increase their contributions, laboratory...