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Canada's universities have been given enough funds to create 1,200 research posts and an additional 800 research chairs to stem the brain drain across all disciplines.
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Last week in The THES... Bruce Charlton argued academics should sabotage the Teaching Quality Assessment exercise Aidan Foster-Carter Hon senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea Leeds...
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Gower tower
(Photograph) - The new Gower building on the Highfield campus of Southampton University, which was opened officially this week. It contains three banks, a bookshop, a computer specialist store and 22...
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Get hip
David Torgeson of the University of York's health sciences department and research nurse Ruth Hildreth with their shock-absorbing underwear designed for people who have had hip replacements....
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An Iranian-born, Swedish-naturalised student at Halmstad University College is wanted by Sweden's security police for smuggling nuclear weapons components to Iran. The student bought a thyratron,...
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The Italian parliament has approved a bill recognising the country's 19,090 "researchers" as full university lecturers. Researchers perform ancillary teaching duties in the lowest category of tenured...
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Freiburg University in Germany has joined Universitas 21, the international network of 17 research-led universities. Lund University in Sweden is also understood to be finalising its membership. U21...
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Kosovo conflict
(Photograph) - A K-for armoured personnel carrier stands by as Albanian students in Kosovska Mitrovica threaten to cross a bridge separating them from Serb-controlled university buildings in the...
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Engineers clash with minister
PARIS. French education minister Claude Allegre is refusing to reappoint the director of the Ecole Centrale de Paris, one of France's prestigious state engineering schools. The governors voted...
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Europe seeks a yardstick on fees
University tuition fees are to be compared across the European Union following implementation of an EU council regulation to extend the scope of the harmonised index of consumer prices. The...
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Peacekeepers go back to class
ROME. Rome's Third University and Italy's military training schools have created a joint masters degree in peacekeeping and security studies in response to the growing role of Italian military and...
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Pure Italian under seige
PISA. Italy's authoritative Accademia della Crusca has warned that flawed teaching of Italian by universities could lead to the gradual degeneration of the language. Giovanni Nencioni, president of...
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Union alarm over Oz cash
MELBOURNE. A key element of Australian education minister David Kemp's leaked proposals for reform survived this week's mauling in cabinet and provoked anger among academic union leaders. Mr Howard...
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Nigeria acts on broken pay deal
LAGOS Hopes of a smooth beginning for the new session at Nigeria's 34 universities have been dashed by academics' decision to continue a month-long strike. In May, after a month of negotiations with...
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Canada tempts US with cut-price fees
MONTREAL. Canadian universities lured more Americans to their campuses over the past year, mainly because of a recruiting campaign that focused on the lower cost of heading north. A survey of 30...