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More give, less take
The Brits could learn much from the US when it comes to financing higher education, says Alan Ryan There have been two connected contradictions at the heart of government education policy, perhaps...
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Team finds way round copyright
Two leading academics have come up with what they believe is a legal way of freeing academics from "restrictive" copyright agreements with publishers. They say it would allow researchers to archive...
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Project fights computer crime online
Hard shell: University of the West of England engineers Christopher Melhulish, Ian Horsfield and Alan Winfield with replicas of the first autonomous, mobile robots in the world, on display in the...
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Lawyers close down site offering Ivy League degrees for just Pounds 155
Cyber-detective work by university lawyers across North America has helped shut an internet site that was offering fake Ivy League and Oxbridge degree diplomas, writes Philip Fine in Montreal. After...
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Ulster enjoys its virtual birthday
Amid government moves towards the United Kingdom's first e-university, Ulster University's pioneering virtual school is celebrating its first anniversary. The virtual school within the science...
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Web classroom eases learning difficulty
A prototype virtual classroom designed to ease learning for dyslexic and visually impaired students has been developed at the University of Leeds. The multimedia environmental education group has...
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Higher channels
John Davies sifts through the schedules for academic viewing (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. The BBC's "History 2000" programmes are a mixed bunch; Monday's Breaking the Seal does not...
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How to play and make it pay
The market for video games is growing and so too is thedemand for graduates to work in it. Steven Poole reports on the universities tailoring degrees for Dreamcasters. The idea of spending three...
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Pounds 50,000 for your thoughts
Should academics be allowed to pursue consultancy work for personal profit? As the High Court considers the case of Nottingham vs Fishel, Phil Baty surveys universities' contradictory guidelines,...
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Will Britain buy a therapeutic cell?
Ayala Ochert reports on the row over the future of stem cell research in the United Kingdom. For a fee of $5,000, researchers can get two vials of a tightly controlled substance. The American...
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Leading the country by the head and heart
Prime minister Tony Blair looks back over 100 years of Labour and finds inspiration to face the challenges ahead. I think Keir Hardie may be ruefully stroking his beard as he looks down on Britain...
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It is new, but it's not Labour
To mark the centenary of its founding this weekend, the Labour Party, says Brian Brivati, should think less about trade unions and more about trade descriptions and come up with a name to match its...
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Child of the killing fields
Chanrithy Him was employed to study stress among Cambodian refugees. But the job awakened memories of her own experiences in labour camps under a death regime. Tim Cornwell reports. In the early...
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Pisa
Italy's students claim private tutoring associations are taking increasing advantage of inadequate teaching at universities to exploit students, with the general approval of their own university...