Labour banks on credit rating
The commission states: "The challenge for the 21st century is to extend high standards to far more people." Changes in funding: "The present structure and funding of universities simply cannot cope...
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Lay panel to witnesses academic witnesses
The latest initiative in the furthering of public understanding of science is the first British consensus conference, in which lay people give a verdict on a controversial public issue. It begins...
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Market threatens variety in care policy
The Government's reorganisation of community care is threatening the survival of small care organisations and is based on an oversimplistic view of the public and private sectors, according to...
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London flood risk rises
London's resistance to flooding is deteriorating because of ever increasing development on its flood plains, according to research being carried out at Middlesex University. In a lecture last week,...
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Sensor sniffs out heroin
Scientists at Cambridge University have developed a biological sensor for detecting heroin which can identify individual particles of the drug measuring just thousandths of a millimetre. The work at...
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Bugs get the chop on wood
Chopping boards could hold the key to a better understanding of food poisoning, says a microbiologist at Leeds Metropolitan University. Government figures released last week show that food poisoning...
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Kalashnikov culture
Bilal Noor was more than an hour late for work this morning. Senior lecturer in law at Srinagar University of Kashmir, he faces a series of arbitrary and humiliating searches by the paramilitary...
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Anti-corruption drive in Cambodia
Getting rid of corruption and violence in colleges are two of the main goals of Cambodia's new education minister as he tries to build a functioning education system. Cambodian students have long...
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Recapture of Kabul campus raises hopes
The campus of Kabul University, which for the past two years has been in the hands of the anti-government forces, was captured by government supporters at the end of September. The university, which...
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Stanford makes deal over fraud
Stanford University, one of America's foremost academic establishments, has made a deal with the United States government over an expenses fraud scandal in which flowers at the university's president...
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Increase of graduates pushes salaries down
New graduates from Australia's universities are being forced to accept jobs in fields which were previously the domain of school-leavers, according to the Graduate Careers Council of Australia. As a...
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Professor fired over outside interest
University of Toronto academic Herbert Richardson, the founder of a scholastic publishing service and a distance university based in Wales, has been fired from his teaching position. An academic...
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NZ home students `lack literacy'
Questions about the literacy of immigrant students in New Zealand have spread to students who have come through the country's school system. Albert Brownlie, vice chancellor of Canterbury University...
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German taboo breaks on fees
Student fees are back on the political agenda in Germany -- this time with more support than ever. University rectors from the states of Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria prompted the debate last week by...
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`Brokers' pocket poll winnings
After poll day came pay day for university "brokers" at German universities who speculated on the result of the country's general election on a stock exchange for voters. In the months running up to...