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Killer bacteria study
Research at Southampton University should shine light on meningococcal meningitis - the bacteria that killed three Southampton University freshers earlier this academic year. It will examine the...
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Is nylon as green as cotton?
A challenge to the commonly held view that natural fibres are more environmentally friendly than synthetics is being mounted by researchers at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Project coordinator...
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Student charged with agitation
A 26-year-old PhD student at Umea University in Sweden faces prosecution for complicity in inciting violent agitation towards an ethnic group after a Nazi lecture. Karolina Matti arranged the lecture...
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Gay slams church obstinacy
A homosexual was first denied enrolment in Milan's Catholic University because he could not produce a certificate of baptism, and then for years was refused baptism by his parish priest because he is...
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Reykjavik project brings Icelandic sagas out of Norse code
A five-year project to translate the entire canon of ancient Icelandic sagas from Old Norse into a foreign language, English, for the first time has been completed by translators and international...
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Irish plan to limit enrolment
The Irish department of finance is planning to cap full-time student numbers in universities, institutes of technology and other higher education colleges. At present, 49 per cent of the relevant age...
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Chancellors seek Slovak reforms
Chancellors of six Slovak universities and colleges have joined Catholic bishops in a call for political reforms and the defence of civil liberties in the run-up to this autumn's elections. The...
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Rectors face beards crisis
Turkish academics face being forced into the centre of deepening controversy over religious dress in universities. YOK, the ruling authority for universities, and the joint rectors' committee have...
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Triple X marks exam success
China is introducing a college entrance examination next year that will make student enrolments more flexible and beef up middle-school teaching quality. The new "three-plus" system is aimed at...
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Apocalypse exercises brains
THE WORLD apparently will end with neither a bang nor a whimper, but an academic conference. The approach of the millennium has spawned apocalyptic studies programmes, books and multi-disciplinary...
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Defence scholarships
The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency has launched a scholarship scheme for at least 40 mathematics, science and engineering students. The scholarship is worth Pounds 1,000 per student per year...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Information technologies (ESPRIT) Contact: email: esprit@dg13.cec.be Open call: Research proposals in domains 1,2,6 and 8....
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China reform brings job cuts
The most radical restructuring of Chinese government since the Communists came to power in 1949 is having a direct affect on graduate job prospects. Chinese premier Zhu Rongji has announced sweeping...
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Degree sale inflames students
KENYAN students are demanding tougher action against rackets involving the sale of degree certificates and academic transcripts. There is also an outcry against the introduction of part-time degrees...