A novel look at inventionin inventory
Is the decoding of genetic material something that should be patented? Margaret Llewelyn examines intellectual rights and the human genome. The completion of the draft of the human genome has focused...
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Barcelona
A judge has suspended language regulations at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabre University for "imposing the preferential use of Catalan" over Spanish. The case was brought by a rightwing pressure group...
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Strasbourg
A two-year, (500,000 ($311,000) project aimed at regenerating Kosovo's higher education system has been agreed between Gabriele Mazza, director responsible for education at the Council of Europe, and...
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Cochabamba
The mayor of the Bolivian municipality of Chimore is pressing the government to implement its plans to create a university in the region. Mayor Epifanio Cruz said that many local families could not...
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Lagos
Staff and student unions at Nigeria's 34 universities have begun an indefinite strike in support of 12 million workers already taking industrial action to press the government of Olusegun Obasanjo to...
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Cold logic that kills learning
A punishing bureaucratic formula and outdated system have led to crisis in Denmark, says Marlene Edelstein In common with much of the faculty of humanities at Copenhagen University, the English...
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Eyewitness
A row over an ancient Jewish cemetery discovered during redevelopment in Prague has exposed deep divisions within Judaism. Discovery of human remains from a long-lost Jewish graveyard halted...
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Masters to benefit German teachers
A new masters degree at Berlin's Free University is aiming to improve the job prospects of new teachers in Germany. It tries to give teachers an international perspective and hands-on training in a...
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Millennium project a runaway success
Halfway into its life, the Universite de Tous les Savoirs, France's millennium celebration of learning and knowledge, has been hailed as a huge success. So far, more than 70,000 members of the public...
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Brno tipped to gain Pounds 70m campus
Plans for a medical and science park in Brno - the Czech Republic's second city - are likely to win government backing later this year. Jiri Zlatuska, rector of Masaryk University in the city,...
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Lecturer strips off to mark exam
An exam in civil engineering is an unlikely situation in which to encounter the examining professor emerging, soaked to the skin, from an improvised shower stall. For Alessandro Del Bufalo, a civil...
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SVG advance
Adobe Systems has released a scalable vector graphics (SVG) viewer, a browser extension that enables current versions of popular web browsers to render SVG. The Adobe SVG Viewer is included with...
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NZ carrot offered to peg fees
New Zealand's Labour/Alliance coalition has promised universities and other tertiary sector institutions a 2.3 per cent increase in government subsidies next year in return for an assurance that they...
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Envy of Africa falls into crisis
Once the envy of its neighbours, Zambia's tertiary education sector is now in the midst of a severe crisis that threatens to undermine chances of equitable social and economic development....
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Dons roused anti-Mugabe camp
Outspoken academics in Zimbabwe were at the forefront of opposition to Robert Mugabe's government in the crisis-torn months preceding last weekend's elections. They played a key role in generating...