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The European Investment Bank is to lend €35 million (£23 million) to develop the campus of the postgraduate Danube University Krems in Austria. Krems, Europe's only state university for further and...
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Warsaw
Poland faces its first potential indictment before the European Court of Human Rights after the deportation last month of Ahmad Ammar, a Yemeni PhD student of law at Poznan University, for posing an...
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Abidjan
Morocco is to double scholarships to students from Côte d'Ivoire to 11,000 over the next academic year.
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China students cool towards Australia
An unexpected fall in the number of students from China seeking visas to study in Australia has alarmed vice-chancellors. Chinese students contribute more than A$200 million (£75 million) a year in...
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Harvard stir over medical trial pay
Harvard Medical School has increased the amount of money its 5,000 full-time faculty can earn from companies that stand to benefit from their research. Other US universities are expected to follow...
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More US students forced into debt
The proportion of US students who took out loans to pay educational expenses has risen by nearly 50 per cent in the past ten years as the cost of attending universities has outpaced the availability...
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Bioscience slides
Europe is falling further behind the US in the biosciences, according to a survey, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. The study, sponsored by the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique and presented at a...
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I'll take a Lucky Dip and key to life, please
Members of the public may soon be able to sequence part of the gorilla genome when they buy a lottery ticket, writes Anna Fazackerley. Julie Webb, a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London...
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Half of UK chemistry may shut after RAE
More than half of the chemistry departments in the UK could face closure after the next research assessment exercise, academics warned MPs this week. A panel of academics told a meeting of the House...
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Third-stream pledge broken, say post-92s
The Government was this week accused of breaking a pledge to increase funding to new universities under the "third-stream" scheme for improving academic-business links. Indications ahead of Friday's...
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Warning of elite of just 50 for Europe
Europe can support only 30 to 50 top-rank universities, according to David Ward, president of the American Council of Education. "It takes 5 million taxpayers to support one world-class comprehensive...
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Kosovan rector fired
The Serbian education ministry has replaced the rector of Kosovo-Mitrovica University in a move that has angered Kosovan Albanians and sent shivers through the European academic establishment. The...
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Standard cvs for EU graduates
The European diploma supplement, a linchpin of the Bologna process, is to be incorporated into Europass, a comprehensive curriculum vitae system designed to help graduates gain recognition for their...
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Distance learning will offer the winning move
Off-campus study is the only cost-effective way forward for higher education, says Brenda Gourley In the US, the number of students aged 24 and over has long since overtaken the number of "...
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A bit of chemical bonding
With an axe hanging over many chemistry departments, embittered chemists often point the finger of blame at "dumbed down" media studies courses that get so many bums on their cheap seats. But they...