Protests hit Buenos Aires leadership race
The University of Buenos Aires faces a serious split after two attempts to elect a new rector have been frustrated by student protests. Hundreds of left-wing students, carrying red banners and...
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Dutch put up £70m to seal a lucrative marriage
Dutch universities are drawing up applications for a €100 million (£70 million) research programme intended to support collaboration with industry. The programme's emphasis on exploiting academic...
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Developing countries 'cannot reverse brain drain', ACU told
Developing countries should accept that they cannot reverse the brain drain, South Africa's Education Minister has told Commonwealth vice-chancellors. Instead they should concentrate on making use of...
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NZ reforms to end cash-cow courses
New Zealand's Government has sent a clear message to universities that it wants more say in deciding which courses it funds. Michael Cullen, the Tertiary Education Minister, gave assurances that...
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New York
Human Rights Watch has protested to President Bashar al-Asad about the recent wave of arrests of pro-democracy activists in Syria. This includes the detention by the Syrian Air Force Intelligence...
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Torun
The Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun has begun to train experts for Poland's Internal Security Agency. The two-year course will cover the sociological aspects of security, the history of the...
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Paris
Beauty firm L'Oréal and the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies are to award scholarships to students from non-European associate member institutions in Mexico and...
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Why should we become our lecturers' hostages?
Fourth-year student Laura Swinton is aghast at the AUT and Natfhe's unfair, disrespectful and callous exam boycott In the stand-off between the lecturers' unions and university managers, neither side...
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Alison Wolf
The existence of contemporary universities is largely justified by the boost they give to the economy. The universities may not sign up to this as wholeheartedly as governments do. But few academics...
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Computer-generated with soul left intact
CRAZY: The UK number one single by Gnarls Barkley The conventional wisdom is that if the pop charts ever mattered, they don't anymore. They no longer serve as a barometer of the taste and cultural...
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Losing capital over IQ levels
Ulster University's Richard Lynn continues to alienate much of the human race with his controversial theories on IQ. This time he has hurt Bulgarians' pride by ranking them 19th (equal with France...
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Scots and Welsh left in the cold
The Treasury's sudden foray into research funding policy continues to antagonise those in charge of higher education budgets. The Welsh and Scottish funding chiefs expressed their disquiet at the...
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Reid's Parisian eyeful tour
Who said academics were not proud of the size of their endowments? In an unusually frank profile of Stuart Reid, Glasgow University's dean of veterinary medicine, in the university's newsletter, Dr...
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Academic ship is listing badly
Tsk, tsk. One in ten books that academics recommend to their students is out of date or out of print, according to the new website Booksofcourse.com. The company found that 10 per cent of the 2,137...
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Enlisting Darwin in the bird flu debate
The panic over H5N1 reveals that even experts are failing to grasp how natural selection works. Paul Ewald breaks the good news. The general public are not the only ones confused about the threat...