New Delhi
Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has announced an India Science Award worth 2.5 million rupees (£32,000) as part of a package of special incentives to try to keep young scientists in the...
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London
The Centre for English Language at the Aga Khan University in Karachi has won a special commendation in the annual Worldaware Business Awards for its work in encouraging the use of good English among...
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Gaborone
A high court judge in Botswana has ruled in favour of the country's only university in a dispute over the timing of examinations. Students had wanted the exams to be deferred, but the court said that...
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Kampala
Uganda's public universities failed to open for the new academic year last month because part of their funding was diverted to the civil war in the north of the country.
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Moscow
The Lomonosov Moscow State University has acquired samples of new military hardware, including an S-300 air-defence missile system, after a visit by the chiefs of Russia's air force and air defence...
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Abidjan
University teachers of French origin working in Abidjan intend to return to France after a series of attacks by supporters of the Côte d'Ivoire government who accuse France of supporting the rebels.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian students continue to choose private alternatives to public universities, according to the latest higher education ministry survey. Only three public universities are in the top ten. The...
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Seoul
South Korea's prestigious Ehwa Women's University is to lift its 57-year-old ban on married students, recognising that the rule that originally gave many women the freedom to study has become...
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Bangkok
Thai police have launched a crackdown on illegal tuition schools that sell university entrance exam answers. Fifty-eight students at Ramkhamhaeng University have been charged with cheating.
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Brasilia
Cristovam Buarque, Brazil's new education minister, has told the national education council of plans to make 20 million Brazilians literate over the next four years. He said that education would be...
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Salary is pathetic and the job sucks
Australian academics are frustrated with their jobs, university management and poor salaries, and suffer from high stress and low morale, according to a survey. Some 2,000 staff in 12 universities...
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Equality verdict
The University of Oslo has lost a legal challenge to positive discrimination policies that reserved postdoctorate and teaching posts for women. Judges at the court of the European Free Trade Area...
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20 Planck labs risk axe
About 20 pure research laboratories operated by the Max Planck institutes face closure following a decision by the German federal ministry for education to cut funding. Although a general increase of...
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Harvard saves face by deflating grades
Harvard University has this year awarded far fewer top grades after it was embarrassed last year by the disclosure that almost all its students received them. But more than half of all Harvard...
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Canadian students fight bar closure
Students have accused the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, of being heavy-handed after it closed two campus bars following a brutal car-park fight. The closures came three weeks after a 23-year-...