World watch
Saudi Arabian religious authorities have declared Kuwait University political science professor, Ghamlan Al Issa, an apostate who should be killed. Professor Al Issa said in a magazine interview that...
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World watch
Al Hazar University, a world centre of Islamic learning, has denied women's medical school enrolment to a belly-dancer who had a sex-change operation, despite a Cairo court verdict in her favour. Al...
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World watch
China's education ministry and Hangzhou provincial government will spend 1.4 billion yuan (Pounds 105 million) on Zhejiang University over three years to give it world-class status. Zhejiang is one...
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Leaders of the saner pack
Closer links between academia and non-governmental organisations will benefit both, Brenda Gourley says In those democracies where often a less than impressive proportion of citizens actually vote,...
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Scientist on treason charge
A Russian academic from the prestigious USA and Canada Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been charged with treason. Meanwhile, a visiting professor from the United States has...
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Serbs rail at sanctions
BELGRADE A leading Serbian intellectual and opponent of the regime of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has said that western sanctions are destroying the lives of academics in Serbia. Marija...
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Catholic colleges in US bow to Vatican
BOSTON American bishops have overwhelmingly approved controversial Vatican guidelines for Catholic universities that require their presidents publicly to express a commitment to the faith and...
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Women athletes thrown by foul play
The equal treatment of women university athletes off the field is in question in the United States just as the law, fan support and even Fifa, world football's governing body, was starting to close...
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Dons dubbed 'sex pests'
NAIROBI Egerton University in Kenya has suspended four senior lecturers for sexually harassing female students and demanding bribes in return for good grades. The four lecturers were named last week...
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UK lab takes star role
An industry-academia collaboration that aims to become the Hollywood of "anytime, anywhere" learning was launched on Monday in London. The Learning Laboratory involves 16 companies and the University...
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Price on dons' heads
Oxford dons will gain a bigger slice of profits earned through exploitation of their research under rules governing the university's growing spin-off businesses. An intellectual property policy that...
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IT news in brief
The University of Derby has opened a centre to develop online assessment and cut paperwork as part of the long-term project Tripartite Interactive Delivery Systems (Triads). Don Mackenzie, director...
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IT news in brief
Video-conferencing is helping teach nurses how to care for terminally ill patients. St Oswald's Hospice in Newcastle is using the equipment after research by the Open University showed that teaching...
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IT news in brief
Teesside Airport's Pounds 360 million expansion plan for international freight can be seen on virtual reality models created by the University of Teesside's VR Centre. The development in Southside is...
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Indicators that drive forward a social agenda
Much time and effort has gone into generating the performance indicators published this week (pages i-xii). The result is a compromise between a government eager to extend accountability by league...