Sino-UK accord opens up doors
Hundreds of British academics are expected to take up university posts in China over the next few years as UK universities strengthen collaborations and Chinese institutions aim to boost academic...
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Cancer experts look to China for talent
Leading UK cancer experts flew to China this week to recruit young research stars and make inroads into an academic sector that many UK scientists find bewildering. Scientists from the charity Cancer...
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Lecturers strike to keep union
New York University has been forced to cancel seminars and classes during a strike by graduate students who undertake extensive teaching duties. The student lecturers are seeking to safeguard union...
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Minister's grants veto slammed
Australian Education Minister Brendan Nelson has shocked academics by vetoing seven large research grants recommended by the Australian Research Council. The grants, in the humanities and social...
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Polar explorers are left out in the cold
A freeze of a different kind may force the closure of Italy's research programme in the Antarctic. Cuts in the 2006 national budget threaten the Mario Zucchelli Station in Terra Nova Bay, which has...
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Swedes to ditch their tongue to improve research dialogue
The Swedish Government wants doctoral dissertations to be written in English to make research more accessible to the international community. Education Minister Leif Pagrotsky used a speech at the...
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Bookish scholars on wane in Spain
Spanish university students buy an average of 1.9 books a year and 42 per cent did not buy a single text or reference book last year, according to a poll by the Spanish Federation of Publishers (FGEE...
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US-style institute is not for Europe
Europe's research-intensive universities have questioned the thinking behind plans for a European Institute of Technology on the model of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The challenge from...
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Fee-free term is on the cards
As the poker craze sweeps across US university campuses, one student has figured out a novel way to make the most of his card-playing skills by winning a semester's tuition fees in his first poker...
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Wit is your best weapon so sharpen it regularly
Tony Thorne despairs of the pitiful patter induced by audit culture. Can't dons get their tongues round a few more syllables? More than once I have complained to colleagues that, in the 18 or so...
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Alison Wolf
New Labour's proposal that universities spend precious time and funds operating 'trust schools' is a very odd notion Why would a university run a school? What reasons could it have for diverting...
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Personnel supremo in hiding?
One would understand if Lyn Link, human resources chief at London Metropolitan University, went into hiding. After one of the most bitter industrial disputes in recent years, the personnel supremo...
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Rebel with a cause
Watch out for Philip Cowley's triumphant grin if you are passing Nottingham University. The reader in parliamentary government finished his book, The Rebels , in the summer when the Prime Minister...
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All change at Oxford's top table
Oxford University's senior management is looking increasingly depleted. Registrar David Holmes takes early retirement next April and Anthony Weale, the academic registrar, retires next month. The...
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Do with two for the price of one
Delegates at a libraries conference in China last Tuesday saw double. The School of African and Oriental Studies sent its official librarian for China along. But there was another - the slightly less...