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The University of Michigan law school acted legally when it took race into account when deciding which students to admit, a federal appeal court ruled this week. The court overturned an earlier...
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Russia pins its hopes on allies
One of the key architects of Russia's education modernisation programme has called for international cooperation for reform to step up a level. Viktor Bolotov, Russia's first deputy minister of...
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Sea tunnel vision
Engineers at the University of Naples have developed a "submerged floating tunnel", which is anchored to the sea bed and which they claim overcomes many of the structural and environmental problems...
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Campus rush hits Australia
Australian universities have experienced a 14 per cent jump in enrolments this year with an estimated 835,000 students expected on campus. The unprecedented increase of more than 100,000 students...
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Dental cut too far ends in court
The New Zealand government faces paying students and the University of Otago more than NZ$15 million (£4.6 million) after the High Court declared that the decision to cut funding to the university's...
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US college aims for UK overhaul
An American small college has set out to become the first UK-style business university and has hired a leading academic from the London School of Economics to help. Bentley College, which has fewer...
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In the news: Fellows of the Royal Society
The Royal Society this week announced the following fellows: Allan Bradley , director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge; Robin Carrell , professor of haematology at the University of...
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Cow pats to help crisis
A student is turning cow pats into life-size ceramics to increase awareness of the impact of foot-and-mouth disease and to help farmers hit by the crisis. Gillian Bathe is a former crofter who is now...
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Bin Laden of cancer
This week's prize for the most strained analogy goes to the University of Warwick for its treatise entitled "Scientists identify the 'Bin Laden' of cancer-causing faulty proteins". It states: "...
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Restore a pizza the wall
A pizza company that has helped to save countless crumbling buildings in Venice is to support a threatened medieval wall at St Andrews University. The Veneziana Fund, which is the charitable arm of...
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No sight of any insight
All eyes are on the Universities UK website where a dazzling new revelation is expected imminently. The policy analysis page boasts: "Insights are written for anyone with prior knowledge of, or an...
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Pakes loses election
As reported earlier, Andrew Pakes, press officer for the Association of University Teachers, stood as a councillor for the Labour Party in the elections held earlier this month. Alas he did not win,...
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Picturing Afghanistan
Good luck to Paul Seawright, director of the Centre for Photographic Research at the University of Wales College, Newport, who is en route to Afghanistan as a war artist. Dr Seawright plans to...
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Time to educate the UK about sustainability
The world summit in August should put sustainability higher up the education sector's agenda, says Sara Parkin. More than a year ago, education was passed over as a theme for August's World Summit on...
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Nerc's grant cut is no way for a council to behave
Many organisations, including funding councils, charities and government departments, put significant sums into research. But one set of funders, the research councils, have responsibilities that run...