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Oxford launches Mexican studies centre A Centre for Mexican Studies is being launched at Oxford University. It will be the first academic base in Europe dedicated to the promotion of research,...
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Study verifies value of SATs
Research has produced fresh evidence that American-style aptitude tests can help to identify disadvantaged students who could flourish in higher education. Dundee University's Wider Access Study...
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NI lobbies for research cash
Northern Ireland's two universities are stepping up the fight for more research funds following the suspension of the power-sharing executive. The universities had called for urgent talks with the...
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Age gap is threat to English reforms
An influx of talented and well-trained young researchers is crucial if the UK government is to ensure education reforms are backed by data and evidence, an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
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Analysis: Salvaged ship sets sail out of the storm
Four years on, TVU is charting a course for others to follow. Alison Goddard reports It is four years since Thames Valley University was branded a failing institution, with the worst standards...
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Danish MPs urged to clear confusion over stem cells
Danish researchers who want to use stem cells, xenotransplantation and gene therapy will have to wait until 2004 for parliament to pass legislation after a government committee raised significant...
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EU eyes up East's research potential
East European applicants for European Union membership are making progress in promoting research but more work is needed if they are to fully exploit the EU's new sixth framework programme, according...
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Bold US wows France
The US is the first Anglophone country to be invited to join the Francophone University Agency (AUF), an association of 400 higher education and research centres in 30 countries. Several New York...
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Promise of £220m for needy academia
Italy's government has bowed to pressure from the Rectors Conference, academics and researchers and has promised an extra €350 million to €450 million (£220 million to £284 million) for state...
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Political animal takes Russia to tusk
A new political party has been launched in Russia that aims to enlist millions of academics, scientists and students as its core supporters. Slon - the acronym for the Union of People for Education...
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US reaches out to black pupils
Only 40 per cent of African-Americans who graduate from US high schools go on to a university education. A renewed effort is under way to persuade young black Americans that not only can they afford...
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NZ finds merit in British funding model
New Zealand is drawing up a performance-based research funding mechanism for universities and other tertiary education institutions that draws extensively on the British research assessment exercise...
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Australians snub Asian studies
The study of Asian languages and culture in Australia is in a "crisis" exacerbated by the Bali bomb and the withdrawal of all Australian university students and staff based in Indonesia. A report by...
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In the news: Gill Evans
After a decade-long battle that has included three High Court cases, an independent inquiry and several aborted trips to the employment tribunal, Cambridge University lecturer Gill Evans has finally...
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Don's diary: Taking leave of Tokyo
Monday The last week of my time as visiting professor in the department of culture and representation at the University of Tokyo in Komaba. First autumn tints in the sky. My work here is largely done...