Nobel laureates to allocate cash
Proposals for a high-powered committee of Nobel prizewinning researchers who will use peer review to agree funding for basic research projects across Europe were unveiled last week by Philippe...
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Tribal aid project wins coveted prize
Helping a remote Amazonian tribe fend off loggers and oil companies using state-of-the-art mapping technology has won a young British anthropologist a prestigious environmental prize. Conrad Feather...
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Limit on degree-awarding powers mooted
The government has unveiled new proposals for granting degree-awarding powers. Under one option, only public institutions would be given indefinite powers, while corporate and private universities...
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Hardbacks and hard drives win some hard cash
The highlight of this year's university rankings is a large jump in spending on libraries and computers - £37 per student. John O'Leary reports Big increases in spending on libraries, computing and...
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How many 'squirrels' would you be given?
League tables have proliferated since the weekly US News and World Report launched its consumer-oriented rankings in 1983. Now the Princeton Review covers the field from the performance of faculty to...
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German rectors rate their rankings
German university rectors are confident that the interactive rankings produced by the national weekly magazine Stern offer a better model than counterparts in the UK and the US. League tables are...
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Chechens sent to Russia to train for elite
Some 300 Chechens are to attend university in Russia as part of a renewed effort to reconstruct the war-torn region. The students will be sent to Russian universities and trained in skills necessary...
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Lobby on pay averts strikes
Nationwide strikes at New Zealand universities have been averted after managers and unions agreed on a plan to lobby the government for increased funding and to discuss restoration of national wage...
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Students take over Colorado budget
Colorado has become the first US state to introduce vouchers to enable its students to pay to attend the university of their choice, in effect launching a free market in which institutions must...
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Protests over aid shortfall at Wits
Student protests reminiscent of the apartheid era disrupted Wi****ersrand University during the recent South Arican celebrations of ten years of democracy. But the protests were directed at falling...
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May Day turns nasty
Riot police have clashed violently with students at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, Anastasia Moloney writes. Demonstrators were showing solidarity with striking oil workers and were...
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Rebels driven by rivalry not greed
Revenge and rivalry rather than greed and ideology encourage people to join armed rebel groups, according to Colombian scholars. Findings from the Crisis States Programme, which is funded by the...
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Cheats who phone a friend caught on screen
Academics at Zagreb University are on the lookout for students using hands-free mobile phone kits to cheat in examinations. Professors overseeing exams have been asked to keep computers switched on...
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Treasure trove on your doorstep - so unlock it
Universities must take more pride in their museums, which are key to achieving strategic goals, says Nichola Johnson University museums are potentially well placed to support their institutions'...
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Gary Day
Embracing the language and philosophy of business can only lead to dumb perversions in university culture I'm too old to be an angry young man and too young to be a grumpy old one. Neither of which...