Rising Phoenix ruffles feathers
IN A rented classroom on the second floor of an office building in Pasadena, California, 36-year-old Ruzanna Berberyan is preparing a presentation in business law. An Armenian immigrant with "two big...
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Public wants funding boost
TWO OUT of three Australians believe the government should spend more on higher education and 85 per cent agree extra funding should be given to university teaching and research. A national poll...
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Historians in war trial row
FUNDAMENTAL differences of opinion on the role of historians in the court room have emerged among academics called to testify at the trial in Bordeaux of Maurice Papon for crimes against humanity...
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New chief for UKERNA
JANET and SuperJANET have a new boss. David Hartley's successor as chief executive of UKERNA is Geoff McMullen, a former Shell executive who is a vice president of the British Computer Society and...
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Researchers 'very stressed'
SWEDISH scientists want to reduce their teaching commitments to generate a more creative environment. "Creative research requires creative researchers," Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, a research assistant...
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Technology fund gives Ireland competitive edge
INDUSTRIALISTS have welcomed the Irish government's creation of a IRPounds 250 million (Pounds 224 million) education technology investment fund. Job creation agencies feel it will give them a...
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Language expert on favouritism charge
ITALY's leading Slavic language expert, Vittorio Strada of Venice's Ca' Foscari University, has been charged by the Venice prosecutor's office with irregularities and favouritism in running a...
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Rector's contract furore
A contract of cooperation signed between a Bulgarian and a Macedonian university has caused a furore because it implicitly recognises the two "languages" of the once-united country. The rector of the...
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Herzog calls for radical reforms
German president Roman Herzog has delivered a harsh message to the country's universities: "You are no longer good enough or fast enough." In a hard-hitting speech in Berlin he said "the best heads...
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Release campaign launched for youths
A campaign to win the release from prison of two Belarusian students charged with daubing anti-presidential slogans has been launched by pro-democracy forces in Minsk. Alexei Shidlovsky, an 18-year-...
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Holistic appeal
MARY WARNOCK (THES, October 31) describes the principle of double effect as "notoriously shifty". I agree it can be shifty, but only when it is abused, which happens when the four criteria, which are...
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Medics caught between two masters
I WOULD like to amplify the proposal to establish university hospital NHS trusts reported from the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology (THES, November 7). A recommendation for...
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End of the line for free JANET
University network administrators are alarmed at plans to introduce usage-based charges on the national academic network JANET within a year. Malcolm Read, secretary of the funding bodies' Joint...
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Super-fast link makes history
A historic high-speed computer link between the Australian National University and institutions in Japan will begin operating later this month. It will be the first time that an Australian academic...
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Japan's young job hunters scour the Web for leads
When 20-year-old Fumio Oishi started his fourth and final year at university in Tokyo last April his first priority was to learn how to use the university's Internet facilities and thereby begin the...