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Hard work, not money, key to luring research stars north
Scottish universities claim that academic resources rather than telephone-number salaries are the key to luring academic research stars, writes Olga Wojtas. C. Duncan Rice, principal of Aberdeen...
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Scots fear top-up effects
Scottish universities have been warned that they could lose out in the academic job market if they are slow to adopt the new pay framework for staff. Union leaders in Scotland fear that Scottish...
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US anti-alien laws loom
As a national debate about illegal immigration rages in the US, several states have moved to stop illegal immigrants from being eligible for favourable tuition-fee rates and from receiving the same...
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Fast food fattens feathered friends
For the past two years, Heidi Auman has been studying hundreds of silver gulls on the shores around Hobart in Tasmania and on the remote islands in Bass Strait. Ms Auman, who is completing her PhD at...
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Protests hit Buenos Aires leadership race
The University of Buenos Aires faces a serious split after two attempts to elect a new rector have been frustrated by student protests. Hundreds of left-wing students, carrying red banners and...
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Dutch put up £70m to seal a lucrative marriage
Dutch universities are drawing up applications for a €100 million (£70 million) research programme intended to support collaboration with industry. The programme's emphasis on exploiting academic...
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Developing countries 'cannot reverse brain drain', ACU told
Developing countries should accept that they cannot reverse the brain drain, South Africa's Education Minister has told Commonwealth vice-chancellors. Instead they should concentrate on making use of...
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NZ reforms to end cash-cow courses
New Zealand's Government has sent a clear message to universities that it wants more say in deciding which courses it funds. Michael Cullen, the Tertiary Education Minister, gave assurances that...
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New York
Human Rights Watch has protested to President Bashar al-Asad about the recent wave of arrests of pro-democracy activists in Syria. This includes the detention by the Syrian Air Force Intelligence...
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Torun
The Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun has begun to train experts for Poland's Internal Security Agency. The two-year course will cover the sociological aspects of security, the history of the...
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Paris
Beauty firm L'Oréal and the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies are to award scholarships to students from non-European associate member institutions in Mexico and...
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Why should we become our lecturers' hostages?
Fourth-year student Laura Swinton is aghast at the AUT and Natfhe's unfair, disrespectful and callous exam boycott In the stand-off between the lecturers' unions and university managers, neither side...
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Alison Wolf
The existence of contemporary universities is largely justified by the boost they give to the economy. The universities may not sign up to this as wholeheartedly as governments do. But few academics...
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Computer-generated with soul left intact
CRAZY: The UK number one single by Gnarls Barkley The conventional wisdom is that if the pop charts ever mattered, they don't anymore. They no longer serve as a barometer of the taste and cultural...