British PhDs runners up in cost league
Fees charged by United Kingdom universities for foreign students undertaking postgraduate courses tend to be higher than those of the UK's main competitors in Asia, according to an international...
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Guaranteed loans hitch
Proposals for a national student aid scheme in South Africa - targeting at least 70,000 students and costing between R600 million and R700 million (Pounds 165-Pounds 192 million) in its first year -...
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V-C job switch angers students
Hong Kong University has finally settled on a new vice chancellor after a long and difficult search for a successor to Wang Gungwu - but its latest choice has sparked fresh controversy among students...
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Plea to stop Sarajevo brain drain
A Bosnian World University Service official has made an urgent plea to step up aid for Sarajevo University. Vesna Besirevic, who heads WUS Sarajevo office, is visiting countries in western Europe...
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Nuclear threat to volcano
A French vulcanologist has warned that more nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific could cause the collapse of a flank of the extinct underwater volcano, leading to a big release of...
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Farmers look ahead to see woods and trees
Welsh farmers are re-examining their use of land because agriculture profits are forecast to fall and returns from forestry expected to increase. To prevent Wales following Languedoc in Southern...
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Clubs say overseas player influx is just not cricket
Controversy over overseas players extends beyond first-class and test cricket to the club game, a new survey shows. Produced by Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn, senior lecturers in law and organisers...
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'I's have it, guys are on the way
A clear demonstration of the egocentric nature of English speech emerges from a novel experiment at Lancaster University which recently recorded ordinary adult conversations for a week. The research...
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Following man's early footsteps
The use of a mechanical engineering technique more usually associated with industrial robotics than human evolution has led researchers at Liverpool University to conclude that if the earliest...
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Scholars enjoy a sporting chance
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and FE after John Major's announcement of a national review. The relationship between sport and scholarship, not to mention the extent of sports...
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Colleges out in the cold
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and Fe after John Major's announcement of a national review. Further education colleges are complaining bitterly that the Government's sporting...
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Inner cities win the Lottery
Huw Richards and David Charter report on sport in HE and Fe after John Major's announcement of a national review. The Sports Council is to offer greater amounts of National Lottery funds to inner...
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Earth gets grip on the matter
The sun's sporadic release of matter, which can disrupt power lines and spacecraft, will be predictable within two years. The bombardment of earth with a huge cloud of matter can prove very damaging...
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Medical schools press for cash
Medical schools are warning Government that they must have funding for planned student expansion. The Government is to boost intakes by 10 per cent over the next five years, from 4,470 to 4,970, but...
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Academics keep CAT in the bag
Universities, colleges and professional bodies are reluctant to pull the wide array of credit accumulation and transfer systems across further and higher education into a unified framework with a...