University chemists get poor pickings
Chemical companies are "acutely concerned" about the government's under-investment in university infrastructure support, according to a survey of 67 top firms by the Chemical Industries Association....
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Irish cross-border study centre opens
The Centre for Cross Border Studies opened in Armagh this week as a joint initiative between Queen's University, Belfast, Dublin City University and the Workers Educational Association. The European...
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Farming students wise up to wildlife threat
Agricultural students are learning about farmland wildlife as a result of a partnership between the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the land-based colleges' national consortium. The two...
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Welsh to offer a taste of school maths
A taster course in secondary school maths teaching for prospective PGCE students is planned by the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, and the Open University. Called "open distance learning",...
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OU Scotland urges part-time support
Financial support should be reinstated for part-time as well as full-time students, the Open University in Scotland has told the Cubie committee. Peter Syme, director of the OU in Scotland, said: "We...
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Business gurus 'need UK think-tank'
Britain needs a virtual centre for management excellence that draws on business school experts in order to keep up with global competitors, the Council for Industry and Higher Education said this...
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Verona
Italy's supreme court is reported to have judged that 22 foreign-language lettori at the University of Verona were unfairly sacked from their jobs by rector Mario Marigo three years ago. They refused...
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Beijing
China is to increase higher education participation from 9 to 15 per cent of the population by 2010. The national budget for education will also increase by 1 per cent annually over the next three to...
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Minister resigns in cash scandal
PARIS Investigations into corruption and misuse of funds at France's biggest student social insurance society have led to the resignation of the country's economics and finance minister, Dominique...
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New economy, new slavery
Disposable People
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Politics in the land of the three Kims
Mass Politics and Culture in Democratising Korea
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Shopping a way of life? I'll buy that
Consumerism
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The extinction of Hydrocarbon Man?
Managing the Opil Wealth - The Carbon War
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Why it was fun to stay at the Y
Take the Young Stranger by the Hand
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a trained architect whose novel is more celebrated than its hero: " The schoolmaster was leaving the...