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  1. Napier flexes minds

    Napier University has set itself the goal of providing off-campus teaching for 10,000 students by 2008. It has adapted a software system for discussions between students and tutors under its Napier...

  2. Self-improvers get on the web

    Dundee University students are being encouraged to use the web to sharpen their skills for study and work. A new university intranet website, Advance@ Dundee, aims to provide multidisciplinary...

  3. Chatline in virtual classrooms

    Is online learning a lonely, isolated business or is the internet a friendly technology that builds virtual classrooms with human contact? The email exchange between Open University tutor Robin...

  4. Italians suggest cash-raising scheme

    Universities could cash in under plans to fund research projects through the issue of Eurobonds. Centre-left politicians in Italy have suggested that cash could be raised by the sale of bonds issued...

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  5. Dons prepare for contracts battle

    Oxford dons are squaring up for battle over the future of the collegiate teaching structure at the university, as constitutional changes are thrashed out this term. Two issues, "with huge impact on...

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  6. Universitas 21 is to expand

    The Universitas 21 global group of universities is set to expand and has invited the University of California at Berkeley to join. Berkeley is still discussing the invitation, according to a spokes-...

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  7. Chemical weapons laws to be tightened

    Academic lawyers and biologists are attempting to plug a yawning gap in international conventions outlawing chemical and biological weapons. They want to open global discussions on a new convention...

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  10. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a Scot about a Leicester in Warwickshire: "It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open...

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