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The third oldest known Etruscan text, dating from the late 3rd or 4th century BC, has been identified by archaeologist Francesco Nicosia and Luciano Agostiniani, professor of historical linguistics...
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Job adverts put college in court
A university in the Canary Islands is being taken to court over allegations that its practice of advertising jobs at the height of the holiday season discriminates against external candidates. The...
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Quota keeps unis out of Cypriot fair
The British Council has limited the size of a university recruiting mission to Cyprus next month in an attempt to safeguard the reputation of British higher education on the island. A large number of...
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Irish pundits clash over student numbers
The Irish government is facing contradictory predictions over the number of full-time higher education students likely to enrol in the future. Currently the figure stands at about 105,000, but the...
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Masters degree joins business with physics
The University of Southern California plans to introduce a graduate programme that combines business and physics in a quest to produce managers with a high level of scientific knowledge. The two-year...
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Sparks fly over v-cs' pay deals
The salaries of South Africa's 21 university vice-chancellors, made public for the first time this week by the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors' Association, are expected to provoke...
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IMF links African slump to brain drain
Latest evidence from the International Monetary Fund suggests that a brain drain continues to block sustained economic growth in most African countries. IMF researchers found that a sizeable...
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Turkish academics enraged as state dictates language guidelines
Use of the words "Kurd" or "Kurdish" has been banned in Turkish universities under a confidential directive distributed by governors' offices. The directive lists 37 words and phrases that should not...
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Technology holds key to fast and fair admissions
Tony Blair's criticism this week of the public sector's reluctance to face change might have been designed for the university admissions system. Neither students nor universities like it. Students...
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Do not force colleges to abandon the HE ship
Though pleased with much of the white paper on post-16 reforms, Colin Flint fears that the government may seriously undermine the further education sector Further education grew up to fill the...
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How to ... Help students who fail exams
WHAT - Moira Peelo and Terry Wareham consider what lecturers can do when promising students perform badly WHY - Failure is part of university life and yet a failed student can say as much about the...
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Star turn
Jennifer Currie meets a man prepared to make a spectacle of himself in the name of a total solar eclipse Not many people would be brave enough to address a packed lecture theatre from behind a pair...
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Cutting edge
Assessing patients' vulnerability to pressure sores is a major problem for the NHS. New research into the risks they face could help By the standards of most academic disciplines, nursing research is...
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RAE of hope for industry links
From 2001, industrially relevant research can be submitted in the RAE. Michael Kenward reports Academic researchers who have toiled to produce papers in the run-up to the 2001 research assessment...
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Calls for commitments to science close conference
The World Conference on Science wrapped up with a range of proposals for national governments to consider, but it ducked the question of funding. Kester Eddy reports from Budapest The speeches...