Nation of farmers harvests scholars
The bright lights of Beijing are just an hour's drive from the grinding poverty of the rural communities that still till the soil by hand. With 1.2 billion people, China is the world's most populous...
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NZ looks for allies to call in debt
The New Zealand government is holding talks with the Australian and British governments to establish if their tax systems can be used to recover loan debts from former students living overseas. Steve...
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Flagship scheme starts to bear fruit
The first study of the Commonwealth's flagship student mobility scheme for more than a decade shows overwhelming enthusiasm from former students. How the scheme will be shaped in future years will be...
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V-cs: sector is on brink of mediocrity
The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee has warned that Australian higher education is in danger of "sliding into mediocrity" unless public funding is increased. It called on the federal...
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Email campaign leaves don facing the sack
An 18-month dispute between a leading South African social anthropologist and the University of Natal in Durban has ended with a recommendation that she be sacked. The committee rejected claims by...
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Disgusted voters turn to e-petitions
The Scottish Parliament's petitions committee yesterday received a 545-signature "e-petition", which was conducted using a system developed at Napier University. The e-petition, which demands the...
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Fish get colour-me-tasty treatment
Researchers at the University of Plymouth have developed a technique that will help fish-food producers find the right formula to produce healthy looking salmon and trout. Paul Russell, senior...
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Speedy Oz chips attract big bucks
An Australian computer chip company, founded three years ago by two Macquarie University researchers in Sydney, was bought by US technology giant Cisco for $295 million (£207 million) last...
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Universitas 21 deal for online MBA
Universitas 21 is setting up a multimillion-dollar joint venture company with Thomson Learning and plans to establish an e-university offering online MBAs within a year. The e-university would offer...
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Britain produces space camera poorer countries can afford
An innovative earth-imaging camera that costs a fifth of the price of comparable units is to fly on Topsat (Tactical Optical Satellite), one of three new small satellite projects recently announced...
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Irish pubs lose traditions
The rise of theme pubs is clouding Ireland's pub culture - a key reason for the rise in tourism, according to Mark McGovern, social science lecturer at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. Dr...
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Non-profit journals fight back
A St Andrews University economist is seeking academics' support for a bold initiative to use the internet to combat the growing cost of academic journals. Manfredi La Manna, reader in economics,...
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UCL banks on Suffolk park life
University College London is to open a multimillion pound advanced research and postgraduate centre in information and communications technologies in Suffolk next spring. UCL@Adastral.Park is funded...
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Wanted: more smart asses
Enterprise teaching ranges from "bad to disastrous" in all countries and its "shady image" acts as a break on development, according to a report on entrepreneurship. The findings are from the second...
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Will Halifax also be 'big' for people in 54 states?
Richard Bourne assesses whether the coming Commonwealth education conference will be more than just talk. One of the biggest but most mysterious international conferences on education begins this...