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Couple gives US university $18.4m Two multi-millionaire animal lovers, Gladys Gwendolyn Davis and Vivian Davis Michael, have left $18.4 million to West Virginia University in the United States,...
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Advocates of European Union face intimidation
Academics in the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus who allegedly advocate pro-European ideas face intimidation, according to an international relations professor. Muharem Faiz, of...
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Can of worms opens as Vatican's war archive stays shut
The Vatican has admitted that its attempts to use a panel of academics to evaluate the role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust has been a fiasco. After complaints from the...
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Quality control is priority in Greece
Greek education secretary Petros Efthymiou and prime minister Kostas Simitis have agreed proposals for a national assessment system to monitor the quality of education provided by Greek universities...
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Swiss to balance gender scales
Switzerland is pouring millions of francs into tackling the gender imbalance in universities. The Swiss confederation has earmarked SFr16 million (£6.5 million) for general universities and SFr10...
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Adult access model muddled
A single national fund is needed for the prime minister's vision of a broadband Britain to become a reality, according to a leading e-learning expert. The broadband network is considered essential...
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Lid is off on drink contract secrecy
Details of a confidential contract under which Coca-Cola Bottling Ltd agreed to pay a Vancouver university for exclusive soft-drink sales have finally emerged after an almost six-year legal battle....
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IT news in brief
Brazil Microsoft deal blocked by court Magistrates have blocked Brazil's education ministry's purchase of 233,000 Windows-programmed personal computers from Microsoft following the revelation that...
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Eyewitness: University test for Macedonia peace plan
The Albanian-taught University of Tetovo reopens this autumn but its role in the reconciliation process between ethnic Albanians and the Macedonian authorities is still unclear. Founded in 1994, the...
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World Watch
Bonn Bonn University is facing criticism for failing to detail the record of Joseph Goebbels, a former student and Nazi propaganda minister, in an illustrated book that lists details of other...
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World View: 'Big Mac' is hard to swallow
A move to 'state-of-the-art' Mary Ann Cofrin Hall, aka Big Mac, is far from ideal for Harvey Kaye's department The big day has finally arrived. My colleagues and I move into a brand-new building,...
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Marine craft finds bilge pump useful
My goals on embarking on the life of an academic were simplistic and somewhat naive: to conduct exciting, novel, relevant research in oceanography and to communicate my findings to a wider community...
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Lessons in the never-never
Student loans are encouraging a debt culture among young people, warn Alan Lewis and Adrian Scott Parents are worried about the effect of debt on their children. A recent national survey that we co-...
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Redirect that data
Race is a political myth, argues Tukufu Zuberi, and it is time we used racial statistics to prove it The idea of a cause-and-effect relationship between race and social status emerged from...
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Why I urge vigilance against scientific fraud
It seems that there is an "epidemic of falsification" in science, from outright fakery of results to the "massaging of data". Fortunately the phenomenon remains rare, involving only occasional bad...