Secret joyriders reveal all
A thousand volunteers in Plymouth are being asked whether they shoplift or joyride as part of a study into lifestyles. Plymouth University's health-related quality of life research centre has won...
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Mummies go to the doctor
Egyptology, once seen as an arts subject, has turned to science to unlock the mysteries of mummies. Most academic departments still teach Egyptology as a history or language option. But Manchester...
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Pay talks deadlock leads to strike date
Academics across Australia will hold a week of industrial action from May , including a nationwide 24-hour strike, in support of a 15 per cent pay claim. The sanctions threaten to disrupt...
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Students snub brainstorming
South Africa's National Commission on Higher Education has unveiled to the rest of the world its recently released discussion document on the future of universities. More than 30 international...
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Olympics sweet for Georgia
The opening ceremony of the summer Olympic Games may still be months away, but universities and colleges in the Atlanta area are already big winners. Eight campuses are sharing more than $320 million...
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Lecturers enter moonlight zone
Lecturers at Makerere University in Uganda are running small restaurants in the capital city Kampala to supplement their income. Colleagues, equally hard hit by the falling value of their salaries,...
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Gene trouble at Villa La Pietra
A bequest by Sir Harold Acton to New York University was possibly the biggest gift ever made to an American university. But it has now become the object of a complex legal wrangle between the...
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Viennese waltz on to streets in cuts protest
Austrian students are traditionally a good-natured, non-violent lot. One has to go back to 1848 to find real student radicalism. It is a standard joke that in Austria the May revolt of 1968 lasted...
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Industry's output fear
Austerity measures announced by Berlin's higher education senator Peter Radunsky have prompted a wave of outrage in its three universities. More than 26,000 students and university staff demonstrated...
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Intellectuals arrested at Chernobyl demonstration
A Belarusian physicist is in prison without access to a lawyer and a lecturer from Minsk Polytechnic Academy in hospital with brain injuries as a result of a police attack on a rally to mark last...
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Bluff and nonsense
British universities have launched a campaign aimed at reversing cuts in funding imposed last autumn. They are demanding a halt to the squeeze on per capita funding, restoration of capital...
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Drum up cash or hit case
The Labour party's shadow chancellor, Gordon Brown, has caused some ructions in his party by proposing to remove automatic entitlement to child benefit from 16 to 19-year-olds so that the Pounds 700...
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Testing times on credibility
The Higher Education Quality Council wants to be the core of the independent quality assurance agency now on the drawing board. If it is to do so, it must produce reports on institutions which are...
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Stub this bad idea out now
A fracas is developing at the University of Cambridge over plans to accept tobacco industry money to found a new chair. The University of Cambridge is considering a proposal to accept a donation of...
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Brand versus the pc bullies
The issue, (The colour of intelligence, THES, April 26) as Hans Eysenck observes, is one of free speech, the rest is politically-correct bullying. I should also point out that Mr Brand lives in Great...