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The Brazilian state of Esp!rito Santo is to allow school dropouts from 14 years of age or older to enrol at university provided they pass a supplementary test and regular entrance examinations.
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Shooting stars
Congratulations to the Bristol astrophysicists who won this year's National Astronomy Meeting five-a-side football tournament. The winning team beat finalists Leicester to wrest the trophy from...
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Job cuts 'threaten future of business school'
The University of Central England has started a wave of redundancies that union leaders have warned could threaten the future of its business school. Three compulsory job losses in the school's...
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Free Welsh voices to sing
For too long Welsh and Anglo-Welsh writing has been dismissed. Stephen Logan says it is time for a reappraisal. Like many, I am dismayed by the readiness with which those who defend the distinctive...
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Is an eager UK academy able to take on the world?
There's still a long way to go before UK academia can truly call itself international, says Robin Middlehurst Academics, institutional heads and government officials would probably argue that UK...
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A hard sell for easy money
Singapore's dearth of universities has allowed unscrupulous providers, often backed by overseas institutions, to fill the gap, says one whistleblower. The other week I received an interesting...
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Biology's unedited crusader
Stephen Jay Gould stakes his claim to scientific greatness in his latest work. But, Mandy Garner writes, Gould's big idea may well have been superseded by other theories. Once upon a time," says...
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Findings: Virtual reality gets new level
Virtual ghosts have been unleashed in the machine by a team of computer scientists at Nottingham University, writes Steve Farrar. The scientists have developed a way to mix past and present action...
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Findings: Taxonomists add inflation
The number of living species is estimated to be between 5 million and 15 million, while the number of endangered species increases daily, writes Caroline Davis. But we could be worrying about...
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'One of the kids might find a cure for cancer'
University should be an option for everyone, writes Harriet Swain The challenge: take a dozen ten and 11-year-olds from one of the most disadvantaged schools in Hull - some with special needs and...
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Selling science to the youngsters
To appeal to kids, it's got to be fun, reports Sue Law Mr Potatohead, model dinosaurs and plastic bead bracelets sound a far cry from the complexities of molecular biology but they are part of the...
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Catch 'em when they're young
Universities, under pressure to meet the government's 50 per cent participation target, are building closer links with schools to try to encourage even the most unlikely candidates to consider...
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Will Ratty ever return to our riverbanks?
Britain's water vole population has been decimated in recent years, but one man is on a mission to bring it back. Steve Farrar reports The boy who spent hours nosing around the countryside of...
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'Ariel Sharon promised peace with security and has decidedly failed to deliver either...'
Despite attempts to find a settlement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the situation has gone from bad to worse. Avi Shlaim argues that it is time for the United States to impose a solution - if...
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The little bit of the UK we tend to forget
Many people think of England and Britain as one and the same, but devolution may drive England to take on a separate identity. Huw Richards reports Call a conference on devolution and you can hardly...