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The UK Council for Graduate Education has set up a working party to examine research training in creative and performing arts and design. It has been convened by Elaine Thomas, director of the Surrey...
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In the news
Simon Schama, professor of art history and history at Columbia University, New York, admitted to feeling "sheepish" at the launch earlier this month of his ambitious BBC television series, A History...
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Law of the sea
What is it about rowing and the law? James Cracknell, a member of the coxless four who paddled to gold in the Sydney Olympics, is due to start a law conversion course at the College of Law on his...
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Marines biologist
Luke Kontogiannis, who recently graduated from Dundee University with a first-class degree in molecular genetics, has been named best biology student in the United Kingdom in the Millennium Science...
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Big Brainy Brother
Nominations please for an academic to take part in the next series of Channel Four's Big Brother, the dumbed-down version of a balloon debate where contestants are locked in a house while viewers...
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Eyewitness
Ecuador's indigenous Indians have warned president Gustavo Noboa that they will step up nationwide action in protest at the government's replacement of the 116-year-old sucre by the US dollar earlier...
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How will our soul be saved?
The commercial creed splits universities between believers and sceptics. John Pratt reports on the debate A speaker at an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development conference in Paris...
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New York
Indonesia is under pressure from the United States to investigate the assassination of Safwan Idris, rector of the Ar Raniry State Institute of Islamic Studies in Banda Aceh. Human Rights Watch said...
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil's illiteracy ratehas fallen to 12 per cent of the population from 17 per cent in 1995, education minister Paulo Renato Souza has announced. The participation of 180 university institutes, 13...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will pay $6 million (Pounds 4.3 million) to the family of a student who died three years ago of alcohol poisoning, even though he was not drinking in a...
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Czech attacks 'sickening' sector
Post-Communist leaders in the Czech Republic have failed to meet the educational needs of at least 50,000 young people over the past decade, a leading academic has claimed. Ivo Mozny, dean of the...
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Dons claim win in EC case
Italy's foreign-language lecturers have received limited support from European ombudsman Jacob Soderman over their complaint that the European Commission mishandled their job discrimination case...
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Lang plan promises extra aid for poor
Education minister Jack Lang last week announced an increased budget for next year that gives priority to creating new university posts despite falling enrolments. Improvements in university...
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Rebuilding a troubled country
Overcoming the social and economic problems facing South Africa after the 1994 elections was never going to be easy. For the past six years, a struggling economy, unemployment, crime and the impact...
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Aberdeen hits industrial stage with Axeon aid
Technology company Axeon has signed a second-stage deal with Aberdeen University to take a pioneering approach to high-bandwidth communications through to the manufacturing stage. Under an agreement...