Principals warn against spin-off frenzy
Universities Scotland is warning against "distorting" teaching and research in a bid to boost commercialisation. The higher education principals' submission to the Scottish Executive's review of...
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São Paulo
Students at the Universidade de São Paulo's faculty of philosophy, letters and human sciences ended a three-month strike and returned to lectures this week. The students, who had been pressing for...
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Munich
The European Patent Office has closed a loophole that meant it was theoretically possible to clone human beings in Europe after complaints about a patent granted to the University of Edinburgh and...
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Staff crisis for ageing Italy
Almost half of Italy's 55,000 university lecturers will retire over the next 15 years and no new generation is ready to take their place. The National Committee for Evaluation of the University...
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Bombing fails to deter foreigners
Foreign students at Jerusalem's Hebrew University have shown little inclination to leave despite last week's bomb that killed seven and wounded 97, according to university officials. Steve Kaplan,...
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Lack of donors scuppers Afghan women's project
A radical initiative to establish an Afghan women's university to train teachers and medical personnel has failed to win the necessary backing. The Revolutionary Association of the Women of...
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Book loot returned to Poland
Stolen copies of two of the earliest printed books, taken from Krakow's Jagiellonian University and recovered in London, have been returned to Poland by the police. The Comoediae of Plautus (Venice...
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Industry link to whale cancer
Before the introduction of whaling regulations, Quebec's beluga population had been hunted down from 5,000 to a few hundred. Now the 650 beluga left in the 115 km-long Saguenay fjord are protected....
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Illegal immigrants offered tuition discounts in New York
New York is to give tuition discounts to illegal immigrants living in the state, continuing a legacy of providing education to new arrivals who seek to make their way up the social ladder. The move...
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Protests at university closure plan
A report commissioned by the Australian government calls for university closures, the scrapping of hundreds of existing courses and for research to be conducted only in a few specialist universities...
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Second tongue causes strife
Students in East Timor are finding their country's second official language tough to learn because there are so few opportunities to practice. After voting for independence from Indonesia in...
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Is it fish? Is it sausage?
For 23 years it brightened the lives of academic librarians. Now The THES / Annals of Improbable Research outstandingly-obscure-journals project can share the joke. The now-defunct Journal of Fish...
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The new underclass?
A cheery alternative to government plans to dig up the greenbelt for housing was proposed last week by Anthony Judge of Brussels. He suggests that digging downwards would be preferable, opening up "...
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No fee to failures
The National Arts Fundraising School offers its first lesson to prospective candidates in its new brochure. It states: "We're so convinced that we can transform your fundraising that we offer a...
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Combined ranking: 2.5
The day after London Guildhall University merged with the University of North London last week, The Diary received the following press release: "London Guildhall University has been ranked as a first...