Big Brainy Brother
Nominations please for an academic to take part in the next series of Channel Four's Big Brother, the dumbed-down version of a balloon debate where contestants are locked in a house while viewers...
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Eyewitness
Ecuador's indigenous Indians have warned president Gustavo Noboa that they will step up nationwide action in protest at the government's replacement of the 116-year-old sucre by the US dollar earlier...
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How will our soul be saved?
The commercial creed splits universities between believers and sceptics. John Pratt reports on the debate A speaker at an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development conference in Paris...
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New York
Indonesia is under pressure from the United States to investigate the assassination of Safwan Idris, rector of the Ar Raniry State Institute of Islamic Studies in Banda Aceh. Human Rights Watch said...
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil's illiteracy ratehas fallen to 12 per cent of the population from 17 per cent in 1995, education minister Paulo Renato Souza has announced. The participation of 180 university institutes, 13...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will pay $6 million (Pounds 4.3 million) to the family of a student who died three years ago of alcohol poisoning, even though he was not drinking in a...
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Czech attacks 'sickening' sector
Post-Communist leaders in the Czech Republic have failed to meet the educational needs of at least 50,000 young people over the past decade, a leading academic has claimed. Ivo Mozny, dean of the...
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Dons claim win in EC case
Italy's foreign-language lecturers have received limited support from European ombudsman Jacob Soderman over their complaint that the European Commission mishandled their job discrimination case...
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Lang plan promises extra aid for poor
Education minister Jack Lang last week announced an increased budget for next year that gives priority to creating new university posts despite falling enrolments. Improvements in university...
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Rebuilding a troubled country
Overcoming the social and economic problems facing South Africa after the 1994 elections was never going to be easy. For the past six years, a struggling economy, unemployment, crime and the impact...
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Aberdeen hits industrial stage with Axeon aid
Technology company Axeon has signed a second-stage deal with Aberdeen University to take a pioneering approach to high-bandwidth communications through to the manufacturing stage. Under an agreement...
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Back innovation or falter, report warns
Australia risks becoming a "branch office" economy unless the federal government spends an extra A$2.6 billion (Pounds 1 billion) over the next five years to encourage innovation, according to a...
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Global jam for Unesco challenge
Fifty student designers from nine European countries and Japan converged on Paris for a "creative jam" last week at the Cite Universitaire Internationale. Apple invited the students to work in teams...
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Leeds mathematicians help designers save millions
University of Leeds mathematicians have devised a formula that is saving manufacturers millions of pounds during tests of product design performance. Malcolm Bloor and Mike Wilson of the department...
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Institute to fill gap in testing industry
Scotland's collaborative Institute for System Level Integration is launching a new postgraduate programme for test engineers, crucial for developing tests on the new generation of system-on-chip...