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Troubles with bubbles - they all have to burst eventually
Irrational Exuberance
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Prophet of doom who saw hell on earth
The Worlds of Herman Kahn
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Europe keen to fortify US ties
Detailed talks on increased academic collaboration should follow this month's European Union-US summit in Washington, the European Commission advised. In a policy paper, the Commission outlines...
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Concern as Japan links efficiency to subsidies
A year after the denationalisation of Japan's 89 former national universities, the Ministry of Education is assessing each one - and subsidies will be linked to the outcome. The purpose of this...
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Soros boosts endowment of Hungarian institution by £115m
Hungarian-born billionaire philanthropist George Soros has boosted the endowment fund of the university he founded in Budapest by €170 million (£115 million). The move to increase the Central...
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Ministers slow research Bill
The timetable for the introduction of France's major research reform is slipping because of the appointment of new ministers for education and research, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. The framework...
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Philippe Kourilsky, director-general of the Pasteur Institute
* Philippe Kourilsky, director-general of the Pasteur Institute, is leaving the troubled medical research centre five months before the end of his contract. Mr Kourilsky told staff he was resigning...
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Germans advertise for paedophiles
A German university is running an advertising campaign to sign up paedophiles for a research project designed to control the behaviour of potential sex offenders. The Institute for Sexual Medicine at...
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Cuts lead to focus on elite rankings
America's urban public research universities, set up to educate adults who were often from districts with overcrowded and underfunded schools, are shifting their focus from their original mission to...
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Italian commission to reform its cosy concorsi
Italy's Ministry of Education has set up a commission to combat nepotism in university recruitment. Letizia Moratti, the Education Minister, announced the commission after Gino Giugni, an expert on...
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Race equality isn't just a nice idea, it's a duty
Access to UK universities remains littered with obstacles for members of minority groups, says Nick Johnson For universities to contribute in a valuable way to 21st-century Britain, they need to...
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Alison Wolf
'In a high unemployment economy, French young people have created a hierarchical, competitive tertiary system with strong similarities to our own' France's legendarily rigorous Bac isn't what the...
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Richard Wentworth: Pure gold in new cross
"Each of the seven floors is its own piano nobile with a wonderful variety of high ceilings. You feel good" Ben Pimlott building GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Lucky, lucky students - a university...
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Deputy in Pole position?
The London grapevine is once again buzzing with whispers that the ebullient Sir Richard Sykes is soon to step down as rector of Imperial College London. Yet no one can decide whether Imperial's...