Transylvanian cash row sorted
Hungary has earmarked two bill-ion forints (Pounds 5.5 million) for a Hungarian-taught university in Romanian Transylvania. According to Bishop Laszlo Toekes of the Hungarian Reformed Church, the...
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Americans turn back on physics
More overseas students are studying graduate physics in the United States than Americans, it has been revealed. The news has prompted moves to impose quotas on applicants from abroad and to offer...
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No place for a child
David Blunkett wants to fast-track bright school students, but is university the right place for a 14-year-old, asks Jennie Bristow. One of the less endearing characters in the quirky US comedy Ally...
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Sources for research funds
Each week this section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL www.esrc.ac.uk 1999/2000 Research...
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Philippe Busquin
For a physicist and Belgian politician, Philippe Busquin, confirmed as European commissioner for research on Wednesday, seems to have a knack for creating a stir. In 1995, he surprised everyone by...
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Don's diary
Friday Make it to my rented study at about 10am. Have just begun the final revision of my thesis, with a view to finishing on September 4 (the last, I hope, of many projected deadlines). I am not...
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The Portillo files
All eyes this week have been on Peterhouse College, Cambridge, Michael Portillo's alma mater, and, in his student days, reportedly a place of "high camp" where fellows and undergraduates were given...
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Don't mention the war
While the Jewish community apparently supported moves by the University of Pisa to lay a stone for Giovanni Gentile, the late Italian fascist politician and former education minister, the idea has...
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BA in pooch preening
Physics and chemistry are still losing their allure for university students but pooch pampering is on the up, according to the University of Central Lancashire. It is advertising a part-time post as...
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On the move
Lane Hughston, former director of derivative product risk management at Merrill Lynch, London, has been appointed the first professor of financial mathematics at King's College, London. Two other...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded its first postdoctoral research fellowships to: James Hall, 31, lecturer in the department of civil engineering, University of Bristol, to carry out...
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South Africa
(Photograph) - Frustrated post-apartheid expectations and stubborn unemployment levels among blacks are the bugbears of Thabo Mbeki's new government in South Africa. The plunge in the international...
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The Hague
The Hague Academic libraries in the Netherlands have joined forces to prevent publishers increasing journal prices above the rate of inflation. Publishers will have to give advance notice of annual...
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Overcrowding
Pisa Overcrowding in Italy's 70 universities and higher education institutes is being blamed for an average annual dropout rate of 66 per cent. The Organizzazione di Cooperazione e di Sviluppo...
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Student demonstrations in Iran
Tehran In the wake of July's student demonstrations in Iran, president Mohammad Khatami has defined universities as "privileged places for dialogue and tolerance" and called on students to "draw...