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Professors and administrative staff at the Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro have ended a 48-day strike over a 63 per cent pay claim. They accepted a 10 per cent bonus after the state governor...
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Autonomy boosts Italian quest for efficiency
Italian universities have become more efficient and productive since autonomy was granted to individual institutions in 1992, according to a survey by the higher education ministry's national...
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Minister who got his sums wrong is forced to quit
Plans for reform of Poland's higher education system are to be revived following the forced departure of the country's education minister. Miroslaw Handke resigned following a parliamentary vote of...
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Row over rectors rattles authority
A political row over the selection of rectors for universities is threatening the future of Turkey's higher education authority, Yok. A member of the ruling coalition government is proposing...
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Secretive institutes forced to rethink
A Dutch academic has won a case at the European Court of Justice that forces European Union institutions to give detailed reasons for any refusal of access to public documents held in their libraries...
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Canberra nets Pounds 1bn profit from degrees
Australian graduates are not the only ones to benefit financially from their degrees: the federal government makes a "profit" of A$2.7 billion (Pounds 1.04 billion) a year from its investment in...
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Move to increase red tape criticised
Argentina's university rectors have criticised their government's decision to introduce lengthy bureaucratic procedures for the convalidation of academic qualifications obtained abroad. Under the new...
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Face to face
(Photograph) - A Peruvian university student in a makeshift gas mask joins hundreds of students, professional and construction workers whose demonstrations in Lima against the re-election of...
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Sex bias rampant among medics
A study has found pervasive discrimination and sexual harassment of female clinicians, researchers and teachers at US medical schools. The study, which involved about 2,000 people at 24 randomly...
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World Bank praise for top Ugandan university
Uganda's Makerere University has become the fastest growing university in East Africa, but its accelerating student intake has been achieved without compromising educational quality, according to a...
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Job stats point to work insecurity
Hype over the transformation of the national economy through the global network revolution has been punctured by a report on the jobless, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Research published by the Institute...
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Rewards give robot human touch
Robots that behave like humans are a step closer to being developed thanks to research at Staffordshire University, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Alex Kleiner, a postgraduate student studying for an MSc in...
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Double vision
(Photograph) - Double vision: identical twins Helen and Ruth Jay have graduated from the University of Northumbria with the same degree from the same course. The sisters, who specialise in embroidery...
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Take-off for Surrey with Pounds 11million win
The Surrey University company spin-off SSTL has followed the successful launch of the United Kingdom's first nanosatellite by winning the lion's share of funding for British National Space Centre...
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Bug finds waste vocation
A start-up company formed by three academics from Liverpool John Moores University has developed a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way of eliminating industrial waste by using bugs....