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Universities urged to go green Universities and colleges were today urged to become more involved in promoting sustainable development, in the third report of the sustainable development...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian Roger Bilham, of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Philip England, of Oxford University, have solved the riddle of the Assam earthquake of 1897, the worst in modern history,...
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Campus killing triggers riots
More than 1,000 Ugandan students from Makerere University battled with riot police on the streets of the capital, Kampala, last week after the second fatal shooting of a student in the space of four...
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Smear tactics spread HIV fear
Nigerian health authorities destroyed thousands of sanitary towel samples distributed free to students because of false allegations by Muslim fundamentalists that they were contaminated with the HIV...
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Student intake limited in Kenya
Public universities in Kenya are limiting their first-year intake this year despite pressure from the president, Daniel arap Moi, to double numbers after many students in 1999 were left without...
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Free online material causes rethink in US
A decision by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make nearly all its course materials available free online is prompting US academic institutions to re-examine plans for online courses....
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Screen saver will aid search for cancer cure
Forget flying windows screen savers during those idle moments - help to solve the riddle of cancer instead. Researchers from Oxford University hope that as many as 1 million people will download...
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'Killer' service clamps down on illegal access
A system that provides defence-industry strength encryption to e-learning institutions has been launched. Last week, London-based WebGenerics released dotEncrypt, a service solution for digital-...
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Will sleeping watchdogs wake to the battle-cry?
South Africa's universities must rethink traditional roles as the country marches to freedom, says David Jobbins. Among its many roles in a rapidly changing world, the university acts as a check on...
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Time for a tax rethink
Britain's tax and benefits system is a mess and is starving services such as education of essential funding, says Maurice Saatchi. It is a stark fact of 21st-century life that government and citizen...
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Why I... believe the student-staff gap needs to be bridged
We are forced to share one copy of The THES on our corridor. With high rents, tuition fees and the prospect of top-up-fees - every expenditure has to be considered. I could go into great detail about...
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We must get back to basics
In the quest for quality assurance we've lost sight of the fundamentals, argues Roger Brown. George Santayana famously wrote that a nation ignorant of its own history was condemned to relive it. This...
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Readers' reactions
Last month in The THES ... Brian Groombridge argued for more effort to be made to promote lifelong learning. I agree with Brian Groombridge ( THES , March 16) that higher education needs to take on...
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A state where thinking big was illegal
So you think it's hard turning your big ideas into big bucks? Then spare a thought for universities in Oklahoma, where until just three years ago it was unconstitutional. Robert Ebisch reports. In...
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Jaw-inspiring resistance
Could our highly developed immune system be the result of an ancient infection? Alka Agrawal reports. What do we have in common with sharks? At first glance, not much. But we both have jaws - and it...