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Big Apple topples Harvard
New York University has toppled Harvard as the top destination for overseas students studying in the United States - in spite of the September 11 effect. "As a rebuttal to terrorism, New York,...
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Joint company set up to operate synchrotron
The government and the Wellcome Trust have set up a joint venture company, Diamond Light Source, to build and operate the diamond synchrotron. The £235 million project will be based at the Rutherford...
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Scots bid to support business in rural areas
Scotland's four specialist agricultural institutions have won backing from the European Social Fund for an online venture to help support struggling rural communities. The partnership between the...
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V-c calls for funding that promotes diversity
Students should be free to vote with their feet - which would promote diversity in higher education, a conference will hear next week. Alasdair Smith (pictured), vice-chancellor of the University of...
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Queen Mary resists redundancy committee
The college council of Queen Mary, University of London, has resisted pressure to establish a redundancy committee. The principal had asked the council to set up the committee after receiving a...
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Trento
Barbara Lubisch, a sociology student from Trento, north Italy, has been awarded the first Italo-German degree from the University of Trento and the Technische Universitat of Dresden.
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If they start, let's make sure that they finish
The risk in widening participation on a tight budget ias a decline in graduation rates, warns Howard Newby. In the late 1970s, a prevalent theme of social-science analysis in the United States and in...
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V-cs try to satisfy online appetite abroad
Overseas students want to learn English, business studies and information technology online, according to research conducted on behalf of the e-university. A call for proposals for courses in these...
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Findings: Bark reveals pollution level
The Darley Dale lead smelter has been recycling metal for years. It sits in the bottom of a glacial valley, yet the contour map published in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring shows the plant at...
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Findings: Love-lorn hit by trauma
Breaking up is never easy. But a study by psychologists at Plymouth and Wolverhampton universities suggests that the broken-hearted can share common post-traumatic stress symptoms with air- crash...
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Who backs the bombers?
When George W. Bush meets Tony Blair this weekend, Iraq is likely to be on the agenda. Harriet Swain and Olga Wojtas talk to the experts about a strike on Saddam. As the situation in the...
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A whole host of answers to 'why should I bother?'
From September, students with disabilities will be able to take legal action against institutions that fail to meet their needs, and it is likely that universities will be named and shamed if they...
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A bunch of jolly good fellows or old cronies who don't deserve £25m a year?
Is the Royal Society elitist? Absolutely, but that is its purpose. On the eve of an inquiry into its merit, Geoff Watts looks at how it is trying to change with the times. Is the Royal Society...
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Classic sleuth with a tartan twist
His first book was described as Plato's Republic with a body count. Huw Richards talks to academic-turned-crime writer Paul Johnston. If Paul Johnston were the sort of person who sought scapegoats,...