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A tribunal this month ruled that three British foreign-language lecturers were victims of illegal discrimination when the University of Verona denied them the right to apply for temporary...
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Trainee medics rules relaxed
France's rigorous system of medical training, which rejects up to nine out of ten students after their first year, faces wide-ranging changes to broaden the intake of students, weed out failures less...
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Tehran campus leader resigns
The student unrest in Iran has led to the resignation of Tehran University leader Khahlili Araghi. Although the protests were sparked by the closure of a reformist newspaper, they also reflect...
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Malta's state nurseries pave way for university growth
Malta University's monopoly as sole provider of higher education on the Mediterranean island republic will end next year when the government sets up a national technical college. Education minister...
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V-cs press for staff sex equality
Australian vice-chancellors are taking action to redress the severe gender imbalance among senior academics. Women form the majority of tutors and junior lecturers but represent barely one in four of...
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More athletics for women means less for men
After nearly 30 years of operation a law requiring equal opportunity in sports for women in the United States has led to a rise in the number of women athletes, according to a government study. But...
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Nottingham speeds research
The University of Nottingham has become a key player in the global challenge to define the next generation web. The university has just signed a master agreement with Adobe Systems, the fourth...
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Top dogs pass on pain of job cuts
Unions fear for members' positions following LJMU management shuffle Funding council officials have visited Liverpool John Moores University as the institution faces growing unrest over a looming...
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Institutions move from big role to new niche markets
Once upon a time universities fed, sheltered, taught and examined students and awarded them a degree or other credential before they left. No longer. Now there are universities which provide only one...
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Fair weather
West Cheshire College has won the Pounds 5,000 British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) post-16 curriculum award for website excellence. The site was chosen from hundreds of...
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Fast forward
Two young researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have won this year's Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for their FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West) software....
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Net deficit
Censorship, access restrictions and high prices are stunting the growth of the internet in the Middle East and North Africa. But its value as an education and information tool will ensure its...
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Role for outsider in giving students a fair hearing
Students are paying customers now and, as predicted, they are becoming more exacting. In this they are being egged on by the National Union of Students and, more indirectly, by the government and the...
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When realism means accepting ethnic splits
In that elusive ideal world, a multicultural, bilingual University of Pristina would be a highly desirable engine for rebuilding Kosovo's shattered society. But inflexible pursuit of this aim by the...
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Students deserve more than a warm welcome
If the United Kingdom is to attract larger numbers of overseas students, it needs to put its money where its mouth is, argues Clive Saville It took the prime minister's encounter with the mayor of...