Globetrotter guides tropics to profits
RETIREMENT is generally seen as a time to wind down from work. But not by Janet Sprent, deputy principal of Dundee University and an internationally respected biological scientist. Once she retires...
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Livestock vaccine to aid Africa
MORE than a million African livestock could be saved from death every year as field trials start on a new vaccine that could revolutionise the lives of poor farmers. An international team of...
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Certain animals have an innate genetic resistance to disease
Certain animals have an innate genetic resistance to disease, an international team of scientists has found, Olga Wojtas writes. About 10 per cent of Africa's 170 million cattle belong to potentially...
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Alarm at slump in students
Australians are turning away from higher education in their thousands, with applications for university places down this year by more than 10,000. Figures released by the Australian Vice-Chancellors...
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BJP aims to 'rewrite' history
Indian historians identified with the destruction of a mosque six years ago have been given a dominant role on the country's official body for historical research. Eighteen eminent members of the...
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Mayor's sons accused of cheating
The sons of the mayor of Buenos Aires in Argentina have been accused of using their father's influence to better their exam results at the city's university, writes Rebecca Warden. The faculty of law...
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White doctors leave South Africa
ALMOST HALF the doctors who graduated from one of South Africa's top medical schools, most of whom are white, work abroad, according to a report. The finding follows a government announcement that...
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Women's lib in Asia
AN INDIAN academic who held The THES Exchange Fellowship in 1997 has carried out a comparison of the legal status of women in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Uma Devi, reader in law at Sri...
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Belarussians seek places abroad
Efforts are being made to find places abroad for students excluded from Belarussian universities on political grounds. But places at universities in Russia are being refused because it could be...
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Rectors to have more power
Denmark's research minister Jan Trojborg is planning to give greater managerial powers to university rectors under a reform launched in the next few weeks. Mr Trojborg, who was given university...
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Research shake-up
Education research in France and the institute chiefly responsible face reorganisation to make it more relevant to the classroom. Claude All gre, minister for education, last week spelt out reforms...
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Rome revisits archaeology
Italian universities and the foreign academies in Rome, including the British School, are key elements of a five-year programme of archaeological exploration in the city that its supporters hope will...
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Milosevic imposes 'communist' management on university
Belgrade University, the oldest and the most prestigious academic institution in Serbia, is facing a law which will stifle all management rights and freedoms. Academics and students believe the new...
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Turks enforce head-dress law
Women students who cover their heads in conformity with Muslim religion have been barred from their end-of-year exams at Istanbul University. Security guards attempted forcibly to remove the students...
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Dutch in row over Islam
THEFOUNDINg of two Islamic study centres has stirred mixed emotions among academics and Muslims in the Netherlands. The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World is a...