Australia braced for national strike
The first national strike by higher education staff and students was expected to close or disrupt most of Australia's 40 universities this Thursday. Tens of thousands of members of the four staff...
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Copy wrongs
'Congratulations - you've just killed a book' is the slogan posted in Italy's universities in a bid to curb wholesale photocopying of books by students and academics, writes Paul Bompard. The...
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Physicist accused of selling secrets stands for election
The Russian physicist being tried for selling secrets to China is to put academic freedom in the political spotlight by standing for election to the state parliament on a protest ticket, writes Nick...
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Ministers forced to resign after daughter gains a place on elite course
Two senior members of the Portuguese government have resigned amid allegations that they abused their positions to secure a place at medical school for the foreign minister's daughter. Diana Martins...
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Disgruntled Princeton donor wants £300m back
Princeton University is fighting to keep an endowment worth more than $500 million (£300 million) after the donor demanded it be returned to his family's foundation. William Robertson, heir to a...
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Europe is 'threat to Russian excellence'
Two centuries of Russian academic excellence could be squandered in the rush to standardise higher education across Europe, academics have warned. Leaders of Russia's top universities voiced their...
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California
Arnold Schwarzenegger was not the only winner in the California elections. Opponents of a proposal to prevent public universities from collecting information about the ethnic origins of individuals...
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Denver
The proportion of the US population pursuing higher and further education is falling behind other industrialised countries, according to the Education Commission of the States. The non-partisan body...
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Skopje
Student complaints have prompted a Macedonian university to pulp a new politics textbook written by three of its professors because it described Nato and the US as the "world's leading terrorists"....
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Budapest
Plans to privatise Hungary's universities and higher education colleges have raised fears of job losses and a narrowing of the range of subjects on offer. The country's Trade Union of Higher...
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Beijing
After cosmonauts and astronauts come yuhangyuan . China launched its bid to become the third country to send a man into space on Wednesday. The Shenzhou 5 spacecraft carried a 38-year-old fighter...
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Charitable connections keep our science strong
Proposals to remove charity income from funding formulas bode ill for vital research, says Mark Walport This time last year charities were feeling rather upbeat about the future funding of university...
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Alison Wolf
Entry decisions based on points are a minefield and will not work in an admissions system run on a shoestring A few years ago, at an Australian sandstone (read Russell Group) university, I was...
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Don's diary: games and gold medals in Mind
Friday All keyed up for tomorrow's start of the Mind Sports Olympiad - an annual games festival in which all the contests are thinking games and competitions using other mental skills. Anyone may...
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Honoured with a whipping
Hats off to Bob Stone. The professor of interactive multimedia systems at the University of Birmingham has received the unusual distinction of being made an honorary Cossack for his services to...