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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced that it is placing virtually all its course content online. Lecture notes, reading lists, assignments and course outlines will all be available...
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UN envoy to visit jailed Burma leader A Brazilian politics professor is expected to see pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, under arrest since September, in the first visit by a United...
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Memorial held for train crash victim A memorial service was taking place today at the University of Teesside for Steve Baldwin, the clinical psychology professor who died in the Selby train crash....
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian The Victoria and Albert Museum has been given six months to justify its existence to an increasingly apathetic public who do not seem to know what it is for. United Kingdom students will...
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European convergence in sector 'unstoppable' The move towards European convergence in higher education is virtually unstoppable, delegates to Salamanca 2001, the Convention of European...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Spending by Oxford and Cambridge colleges on libraries, computers and academic staff rivals that of entire universities elsewhere in the country. Essex University is to unveil plans...
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Clinical psychology gets RAE recognition Clinical psychology will be more fairly assessed in this year’s research assessment exercise. Funding chiefs today announced that staff employed by the...
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US offers licence to spy on processed food
The Simmons College Center for Competitive Intelligence in Boston will enrol its first students in May. It aims to train the 21st-century counterparts of James Bond - spies who will gather...
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Futures option: first take out a loan, then you make a clone
Market forces that might one day make human cloning a profitable engine of social change have been proposed in a speculative study by economists. Gilles Saint-Paul, professor of economics at the...
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Meeting to map a united Europe
Five hundred university leaders gather in Salamanca, Spain, today to map out the future unity of Europe's universities as a follow-up to the Bologna Declaration of June 1999. The convention is...
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AUT proposes killing DFEE
The Department for Education and Employment should be disbanded to allow a radical rethink of higher education policy, the Association of University Teachers said this week. Launching the union's pre...
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Oxford to lose chair as funds revoked
The Argentine government has decided to withdraw financial support for Argentine studies at St Antony's College, Oxford, worth £186,000 per year over ten years. The decision revokes a UK-Argentine...
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Initiation ritual to be scrutinised
South Africa's Human Rights Commission is to investigate initiation rites after a student at the University of Stellenbosch was knocked down and killed while walking along a highway with a group of...
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Austrian plan to cut red tape causes rift
Plans to shorten the time spent by students in higher education in Austria by reducing bureaucracy have sparked a clash between university authorities and the education ministry. The ministry wants...
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Patent laws come under fire
Regulations controlling intellectual property rights need to be radically overhauled to ensure the free exchange of knowledge, according to John Howkins, chairman of the Collaboration and Ownership...