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Funding packages target poor Students from low-income families will benefit from two packages announced today. A £1.7 million scheme funded by the Royal Bank of Scotland will help improve...
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Latest international news
More Britons choose a US education The number of UK students enrolled at US universities has reached a high of 8,046, up 2.9 per cent on 1998-99. But enrolments from other countries have risen faster...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Instituto de Empresa in Madrid is launching an international executive MBA with an online component The American business school accreditation body has integrated its global arm into...
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Daily TV & radio - Monday
Start the Week (9.00 am R4). Jeremy Paxman with Robert Skidelsky and philosopher AC Grayling (biographers of Keynes and Hazlitt, respectively). Work in Progress (10.00 am R3 and rest of week). Carol...
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Daily TV & radio - Sunday
Music Shanghaied (12.05 R3). Musical life in Shanghai – part of Radio 3’s China season. » New China Adventures in Poetry (4.30 R4). Peggy Reynolds (QMW) continues her interestingly-researched series...
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Daily TV & radio - Saturday
The Sky at Night (11.35 am BBC2). Project Darwin, the plan to search for extra-solar planets using several spacecraft. With Alan Penny of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Patrick Moore (repeat...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES A "memory pill" that could repair the ability of our brains to learn and remember may be available within a decade, according to scientists from the Wolfson Institute of Biomedical...
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Next week in The THES
NEWS Research allocations: who gets what FEATURES John Kay on the art of indecision and why he left Oxford's Business School RESEARCH A glimpse inside your polluted home Bat hunting in Madagascar...
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La Paz: millions spent on quality
Bolivia is to use a $5 million (£3.5 million) contribution from the World Bank to help create a national accreditation council for the promotion of quality in Bolivian universities.
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Australia embarks on quality control audits
Australian universities will be subject to quality assurance audits for the first time next year. A new Australian Universities Quality Agency has been established following an agreement by federal,...
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Bolivia's university plans get go-ahead
The Bolivian parliament has sanctioned government plans to create a new public university on terms that radically reinterpret constitutional guarantees of autonomy. The Universidad PNoblica y Aut"...
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Canadians want funding boost
The Canadian public would like the winner of this month's federal election to increase funding to higher education, according to a poll commissioned by a national student group. Despite the key...
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Red faces over White House forecast fiasco
Behind the high-profile humiliation of journalists and pollsters who wrongly predicted the outcome of this month's US presidential election is an entire faculty of embarrassed academics whose...
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Belgrade turns again to study
Slowly and painfully, life at the University of Belgrade is returning to normal. Professors long banned from departments are returning. Student activists are again picking up their books. Scores of...
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Campus life gets easier in France
An information service open all day from 8.30am, an afternoon left free each week for sporting or cultural activities and a joint student and business club are among initiatives introduced at one...