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The Azores University has banned initiation rites for new students. Freshers at Terra Cha campus on Terceira island have complained of being forced to watch porn videos, drink large quantities of...
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A. T. M. Tofazzel Hossain, a professor at Bangladesh Open University business school, has won the 1999 Times Higher Education Supplement exchange scholarship. He will spend three months at Delhi's...
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A plan to have a "men's officer" for students at the University of Tasmania has outraged the National Union of Students. The NUS has condemned it as "backlash politics" based on the mistaken notion...
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Targets alarm Finns
Finnish academics fear their prestige and research opportunities will diminish if plans go ahead to smooth the differences between universities and polytechnics and induce 70 per cent of school...
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Medics get a dose of faith
United States medical schools are expanding their courses on spirituality, including faith healing, writes Jon Marcus. Administrators say the move comes as more patients - and medical students -...
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Beijing takes the software pearl in Macau's crown
Next month, China extends its borders and gains the world-class software institute where Jonathan Bowen has just spent the summer Macau is only an hour's hydrofoil ride from Hong Kong across the...
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V-cs join forces against copyright
MELBOURNE Digital copyright legislation introduced to the Australian Parliament could bankrupt many education institutions and cripple Australia's information openness, according to the Australian...
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Hard decisions ahead on the road to success
Excitement and uncertainty characterise the post-16 sector of education as the consultation period on the Learning to Succeed white paper ends. Some decisions are now being made. The Learning and...
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Fierce competition in the virtual, global game
The United Kingdom must not let the fast-moving providers in the world information market get too far ahead, says Michael Thorne The Foresight programme of the Office of Science and Technology aims...
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Why I think archaeologists should fight the pseudo-science of the Atlantis myth
Ken Feder Professor of anthropology Central Connecticut State University United States There are advantages and disadvantages to teaching in a discipline such as archaeology, which enjoys popular...
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Brits slow to ease access
PARIS Growing numbers of people in developed countries are entering tertiary education but the gap is not shrinking between different social groups' access to it, a study by the Paris-based...
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Historical decline
History is faltering, but universities must not allow it to become too insular, argues J. M. Roberts Twenty-five years of teaching history at Oxford as a college tutor and supervising a few graduate...
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Lessons in the lab and the lobby
Today's scientists need a training regime that takes in politics, lobbying and a spell at Westminster, says Ian Gibson It has been a good week for science. The evidence scrutinised by a European...
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Cutting edge
The Mediterranean is rich with underwater sites revealing our past, but laws are needed to stop them being plundered 'We stumbled on the remains of a ship that showed these huge earthenware vessels...
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Italy confronts funding furore
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers According...