Hotshots on ice eye Olympics
In 1860, a group of English veterans from the Crimean War hit a small "puck" -or circular rubber disc - across the frozen expanse of Kingston harbour in Ontario, Canada. The fastest game on Earth -...
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Welsh fret as grants inch up
Welsh universities were facing an uncertain future this week as grant allocations barely rose above the rate of inflation. The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales announced allocations...
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'European MIT' gets short shrift in UK
Vice-chancellors and politicians are fighting behind the scenes to overturn "misconceived" plans for a European Institute of Technology. The European Commission has already conceded that the...
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Cut-throat RAE rivalry makes filling vacancies even harder
Fierce competition for staff in the run-up to the research assessment exercise is making it difficult for universities to fill job vacancies, employers reported this week. A quarter of higher...
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British students prefer to learn on home ground
British students are continuing to shun universities in other European countries, according to figures from the Europe-wide student exchange scheme. Despite rising numbers of students from other...
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Pervasive probe
Researchers at Wolverhampton University are working on the next big thing in computers - pervasive computing. The future lies in small networks of intelligent wireless systems, says Elena Gaura,...
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Push to publish 'leads to fraud'
Researchers are under such pressure to publish papers in top journals that they are being driven to fraudulent practices, it was claimed last week. Leading academics argued that more researchers were...
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Belgian law aims to cut foreign enrolment by degrees
Authorities in French-speaking Belgium will extend consultation on a new law limiting the number of foreign students enrolling on undergraduate courses including veterinary medicine and physiotherapy...
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Rain stops fair play for college hopefuls
A mistake in the scoring of the principal university admissions exam has thrown the whole process into chaos only days before US high school students were to learn whether they had been admitted to...
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Scientists in Mexico admit cheating is rife
A study by the Mexican Academy of Sciences has revealed a deeply entrenched culture of cheating among a large proportion of scientists, who place ethics way down their list of priorities. Forty per...
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Czechs balance priorities
Research institutions in the Czech Republic that fail to come up to scratch will face closure under planned changes to the way science is funded in the country. A Research and Development Council...
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Second thoughts
In the wake of angry nationwide protests, Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France, has said he is prepared to improve the Contrat Première Embauche , the young people's employment contract...
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US shuts down Swedish trials
Medical research into brain-damaged HIV patients at Gothenburg University's world renowned Sahlgren Academy has been on hold since last autumn after the US National Institutes of Health suspended...
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Africa's brain gain
A World Bank report has urged governments in Africa to resist the idea that expansion of higher education exacerbates the brain drain problem, reports Wachira Kigotho in Nairobi. David Bloom,...
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Fewer faces for MBA places
After years of enrolment growth, the number of local and foreign students taking MBAs in Australia has dropped by more than 20 per cent since 2003. The trend is not unique to Australia. Business...