Glittering prizes
Doreen Massey, 54, professor of geography at the Open University, has won the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize. She is the first female geographer to receive the honour since it was set up...
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The THES Diary
Addicted to the match Vice-chancellors and higher education minister Baroness Blackstone got a rare taste of student life when they stayed in halls of residence at Manchester University for their...
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Eye witness
Bangladesh's devastating floods may be receding, but they leave in their wake a greater problem - ensuring a safe water supply for the largely rural population. Health problems linked to polluted...
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Milan
Australian physicist Sir Robert May has won a prize of 500,000 Swiss francs (Pounds 214,000) from the Italo-Swiss International Balzan Foundation. Sir Robert, chief scientific advisor to the British...
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Nairobi
University medical schools in eastern and southern Africa are in the process of revising their pharmacy degree programmes with assistance from the World Health Organisation. The new undergraduate...
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Angry minority withdraws support
Demands by ethnic Hungarians in Romania for an independent university have been fuelled by the new Hungarian government's emphasis on the needs of Hungarian communities beyond its frontier. Romania...
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Appeal for freedom from military administrators
Pressure is mounting on Nigeria's new military head of state to scrap the posts of sole administrator - the government appointees who have replaced vice-chancellors at five universities. Before...
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Labor is hailed as saviour of education
Australia's academics, vice-chancellors and students have welcomed the Labor Party's education programme, calling it a marked contrast to the conservative government's record on education spending....
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Indian tribes given bones for reburial
When the University of Nebraska agreed to return remains it held of more than 1,700 American Indians to 15 tribes, the move received widespread public support. After all, the university had been...
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Parties promise cash bonanza
If politicians' promises were anything to go by, Germany's higher education and research institutions could expect to be swimming in funds after next Sunday's general election, whichever party or...
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European Academic Software Award 1998 winners
Cut! Cinema studies. University of Stockholm. Chemvisu. Chemistry. University of Fribourg, Switzerland. http://sgich1. unifr.ch/ CHEMvisu.html Elm-Art. Computer science.Padagogishe Hochschule...
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Euro top ten in software
Dysphonia, Merlin and The Trunk are not characters from a Terry Pratchett novel but three winners in the 1998 European Academic Software Awards. The jurors spent a hardworking weekend in Oxford...
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Counting the cost of closure
The closure of the Fujitsu and Siemens semiconductor plants in the Northeast of England is bad news for local universities, but not as bad as for the hundreds losing their jobs. The problem is a...
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Admissions system on alert for Y2K bug
Personal computers and internal systems at the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service are to be checked for risks from the millennium bug (Y2K). Technicians have cleared the extensive network...
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English spoken here
Peter Deussen wants to place south-west Germany at the hub of a global virtual university. John Davies probes the project's strengths. Peter Deussen is a man with a vision. A professor in the...