Chechnya
Chechen fighters are demanding a ransom of $2 million for two Polish academics who disappeared while doing fieldwork in Dagestan in August. In a letter that reached Poland earlier this month, Zofia...
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Kuala Terengganu
Malaysia's student union has advised members to report teachers with anti-government sympathies to employers. Syed Anuar Syed Mohamad, leader of the Federation of Peninsula Malay Students, said...
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Victims of a killer storm
Most people with epilepsy live normal lives, controlling their condition with drugs. But for 400 a year death can occur suddenly and inexplicably. A Pounds 220,000 study will now try to discover why...
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Doctorates: why so many give up
Numbers of doctoral candidates are increasing - but so are drop-out rates. What factors determine success and failure at this level? Steve Dinham and Catherine Scott did a study to find out There has...
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Queen keeps her job - no thanks to ACTinians
Education levels were an important factor in determining whether individual Australians chose to keep the Queen as their head of state or opted for the republican model in the recent Australian...
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Breakthrough in race to develop safe sex gel
A contraceptive gel that protects against bacterial and viral sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, herpes and gonorrhoea, has passed its first hurdle in its development by North American...
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German scientist has work finally vindicated
She was relegated to a mere footnote in the history of science, ridiculed by her contemporaries and for the last decades of her career could only find work as a university teaching assistant, writes...
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Pesticides proven to reduce fish libidos
Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have documented for the first time the effects on animal reproduction of even small doses of antiandrogenic pesticides and their residues. Antiandrogens...
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Political boundaries are as old as the Bronze Age
It is a political divide that three millennia of Britain's turbulent history has failed to erase. Archaeologists have found evidence that the parish boundary line between the villages of Ashton...
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DTI to reward cooperation
Universities in which top researchers work alongside other world-class academics could reap rewards under plans being developed by the Department of Trade and Industry. John Taylor, director general...
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Funding boost for Socrates 2
European higher education may win a "substantial" funding boost, following an agreement to more than double the budget for the giant Socrates programme. The seven-year second phase of Socrates,...
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Lost cause: Student protests at Middlesex University
(Photograph) - Lost cause: Student protests at Middlesex University last week failed to stop a decision to close the school of engineering systems next July. But the academic board agreed the...
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Finns tighten control
Finland is tightening the standards of mushrooming professional postgraduate courses. There are up to 500 specialist university and polytechnic programmes with nearly 150,000 students, but until now...
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Extremist threat by razor mail
BOSTON An extremist animal-rights group has claimed responsiblity for mailing letters booby-trapped with razor blades to more than 80 United States scientists. It has threatened that the violence...
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Europeans run risk of copyright tug of war
BUDAPEST Universities in Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Baltic states and other countries are fast developing sophisticated internet-based learning packages that could reap significant...