Violent protests roused by tough cuts
As the new academic year begins in West Africa, some francophone countries are determined to see through unpopular university reforms, repeatedly postponed in the past because of student and staff...
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Leaders of future lean to the right
German students are becoming more conventional and self-interested and are even tending towards right-wing nationalism, according to research commissioned by the federal education ministry. Student...
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Universities on guard for return of quality auditor
For the second year running, Australian universities are being subject to a federal quality audit. At stake is almost $80 million (Pounds 36.4 million) in additional grants. Review teams from the...
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Study line
(Photograph) - Study line: Eurostar, operator of the first channel tunnel services between Paris, Brussels and London, may introduce a student concessionary fare when its full fare structure is...
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Radical college on the ropes
Such is the financial crisis hitting American higher education -- particularly small, liberal arts colleges -- that some are doing the unthinkable, sacking staff, and even abolishing academic tenure...
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Pesticide death toll under microscope
Pesticide use by farmers could be reduced after a Southampton University study of the impact of the chemicals on farmland insects. The Pounds 500,000 project, called Scarab, is being carried out by...
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Treatment promises to kill malaria
Malaria kills up to five million people around the world every year. Now teams of researchers in Australia are developing new cures for an age-old menace. The World Health Organisation's optimistic...
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Community care `stress'
Almost three-quarters of family doctors in a nationwide survey feel they have patients who are under strain from the Government's policy of community care. This is the finding of Colin Francome,...
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Forest clue to carbon mystery
The search for the world's missing carbon "sinks" is leading to findings that "go against every ecologist's text book", a conference was told last week. Paul Curran, professor of geography at...
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Nasty scratch
Ivy League universities share the Oxbridge tendency to be rude about each other, and an example from the Princeton-educated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-up (published posthumously in 1945)...
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Temp problems
The layout of an advertisement for lectureships in African politics at Oxford University last week may have stopped a few hearts beating. The ad, which appeared in the press placed the words "...
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Bad managers cause stress
Aggressive and poor management is one of the main causes of high levels of stress and illness among staff in both further and higher education according to Natfhe, the University and College...
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Dead heat
This week's award for timing goes to the University of Essex, whose press release about its involvement in the Alfa Latin American student exchange network (see above) coincided with a story in its...
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Touting Taylors
Is there no limit to this man's talents? asks a reader who spotted a Stage advert for Laurie Taylor: The Ideal Cabaret for your function: Sings Your Favourite Sinatra and Manilow Songs ? Probably not...
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Collision course
A semi-naked man lying on a bed of nails and under three concrete blocks forms the cover photo of the latest Cern Courier, the particle physics journal. The man, who is about to be hit with a...