Aeronautical engineers flying high
A flight mechanics simulator used for teaching and research at City University has won one of the Millennium Products Awards announced last week. The simulator, which combines simulator technology...
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Drugs breakthrough could cut animal testing
Scientists at Surrey University claim to have devised a technique that could revolutionise the development of safe new drugs and reduce animal testing. David Lewis of the school of biological...
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Coventry welds a US relationship
COVENTRY University has signed a research agreement with one of the United States government's most advanced research institutions. The university's centre for advanced joining has agreed to develop...
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Graduates forced to drop a grade
The job market in Australia is saturated with graduates looking for work they hope will match their qualifications. Yet this year the number of young people with a new university qualification will...
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Scandal of cheap professors
COLLEGES and universities in the United States are hiring more and more full-time non-tenure-track professors and paying them less than senior faculty to work longer hours - with no job security,...
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Harvard loses in Holocaust in-fighting
Harvard University has lost the bulk of a $3 million (Pounds 1.8 million)gift to endow a chair in Holocaust studies because academic in-fighting prevented the selection of a candidate, writes Jon...
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Herts minds in Beijing
The University of Hertfordshire, in partnership with Inti Management College of Malaysia, has become the first British university to be recognised by the Chinese authorities to award British...
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Strong China good for globe
Harvard professors Erza Vogel and William Kirby used Beijing University's centennial celebrations as a platform to urge far greater expansion of Sino-US contacts in wide-ranging areas to resolve...
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John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard has been commissioned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's civil service bureau to design and organise a high-level leadership...
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Don's Diary
Monday Broken tooth: What a start to the week! During my unscheduled visit to the dentist, I mull over our current research on the curing dynamics of composite monomers as the dentist cures the...
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Scots tutors train Russian media
The first of a new wave of British-backed programmes linking Russian and British universities to encourage progress in social, political and economic reforms has been launched in the city of Saratov...
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Fees set for the shelf
Efforts to resolve the deadlock over higher education reform in Germany look likely to result in shelving any plans to introduce tuition fees over the next few years. A committee mediating over the...
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