Sun, sea and seminars
Caroline Davis reports on plans to add a seat of learning to Southend's deckchairs It was Queen Victoria's favourite seaside resort and has the longest pier in the world, but now Essex University is...
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Essex looks to join Suffolk bid
Essex University has entered into negotiations with the University of East Anglia to give momentum to proposals for a university in Suffolk, writes Caroline Davis. The talks, although at an early...
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Postdoc reforms 'don't go far enough'
The Spanish government is to improve conditions for young researchers - but not nearly enough, says the country's Young Researchers' Federation (FJI). From January 2004, PhD students and...
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Hideous spectre of censorship
The anti-Israeli boycott threatens the very basis of academic debate, argues Ghil'ad Zuckermann There is a story about a Jew who applied for a job as an auctioneer, but failed the interview. When his...
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Findings: Violence is part of being a boy
Violent behaviour is part of being a normal teenage boy, a study has found, writes Natasha Gilbert. David Smith and his colleagues at the School of Law, Edinburgh University, studied 4,300 young...
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Hong Kong heads oppose fast-track access scheme
University and school heads are opposing the education minister's proposal to expand a scheme that gives school students rapid access to university courses. Under the Early Admission Scheme (EAS),...
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Visa rules hamper Russian holidays
Delays in issuing visas at the US embassy in Moscow have ruined the plans of hundreds of Russian students who wanted to spend the summer working and travelling in America. Stringent new application...
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Scandal dogs presidents
A US university president has stepped down after his ex-wife claimed during their divorce trial that he had cheated to obtain his job, and another has resigned after being criticised for failing to...
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Italian scientists to piece together bomb-damaged church frescoes
Scientists at the Physics Institute at the University of Padua have developed techniques to recreate frescoes damaged by stray bombs in the second world war. A raid by 100 American Flying Fortresses...
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Indonesian spy schools to tackle terror threat
Indonesia is to open two new intelligence-gathering colleges in a move designed to improve regional and worldwide attempts to tackle international terrorism through better espionage. The institutions...
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Findings: Some shut eye aids learning
Sleep, not just practice, is critical to learning skilled-movement tasks, US scientists have discovered, writes Esther Ingram. In a study at Harvard Medical School, adults were trained either in the...
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Rethink doubles 6* winners
Thousands of academics will see their departments gain the top 6* rating as part of a funding council climbdown on research concentration. But the change will bring more kudos than cash. More than...
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Warwick puts two doctors in the house
Warwick University Business School scored a double first this week as a married couple passed their PhD vivas on the same day, for first time in its 40-year history. Argentinian husband and wife...
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A-level surge fuels transfers
Another rise in A-level pass rates and the highest ever proportion of top grades are fuelling the student transfer market. Admissions staff are being confronted with students shopping around for the...
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Appointments
* Caroline Baillie , currently seconded from Imperial College London to serve as deputy director of the UK Centre for Materials Education at the University of Liverpool, has been appointed DuPont...