Law delay dogs the Serb road to revival
Serbia's academics have discovered that replacing a highly political piece of legislation - the 1998 University Law - is insufficient to reform a Communist-era system that fell victim to the...
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Nashville Decades of court-ordered desegregation and racial quotas at Tennessee's public colleges and universities are set to end after the settlement of a 32-year legal action. Quotas will end...
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Rectors quizzed as doorman wins same pay asprof
Two former rectors of the University of Palermo face demands for the return of €8 million (£5 million) for hundreds of allegedly unjustified promotions and pay increases. Mass promotions in...
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Library news online
The British Library Newspaper Library's catalogue of more than 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings in Colindale has been published on the web. The catalogue includes all United Kingdom...
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Anglo-French e-biz
CERAM Sophia Antipolis, the French graduate school of management and technology, and the Entrepreneurship Centre of Cambridge University have agreed to cooperate in teaching and research. The aim of...
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Apple sales initiative
Apple has refocused on education in the European market, launching a strategy at BETT2001 in London this week. The computer company, which is suffering from falling sales, has created two European...
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Gates offers way up
Washington state's largest private scholarship programme is being established through a $100 million (£66.5 million) gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A partnership between the...
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Freefund runs out
Freefund.com - a commercial website that gave students free access to information on scholarships and bursaries - has folded its business in the UK following "financial difficulties". The company was...
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Oz v-cs broaden appeal
The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee has upgraded its website to broaden its appeal and to provide easier access for staff and students to university activities. Among new features are pages...
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Digital exhibit puts public in picture
A graphic design expert has used digital technology to "democratise" art in a year-long project at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Marty St James, a video artist and senior...
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Welsh enterprise goes global
Wales is on track to export entrepreneurial education across the globe by launching a unique online enterprise college. The £6.5 million venture is being set up by Glamorgan University in association...
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Bringing in art students through the front door
Sir Christopher Frayling says art and design practitioners are still victims of a Victorian hierarchy. At my very first meeting of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (as it was then...
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Universities must make more of the devolved picture
Whatever else the first Blair administration is remembered for, its devolution of power to new assemblies and parliaments in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh is guaranteed a place in the history books...
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If DU is deadly, say so
An independent and open inquiry into the health effects of depleted uranium munitions is an appropriate project for the Royal Society. And it is possible that the group, being led by Brian Spratt,...
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Game's up for UCEA
Employers are in disarray and staff would get a better deal if they were unified, argues David Triesman. For an energetic advocate of national bargaining in higher education, it is painful to...