Trainer fights for UKeU cash
A leading online training company stands to lose hundreds of thousands of pounds for learning materials it was contracted to produce for the failed UK e-University venture. Doctors.net.uk, which won...
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Scholar strips to show why Ancient Greek athletes raced in the nude
An academic has stripped off for the TV cameras in a bid to test his theory that Ancient Greek athletes competed naked to run faster. Stephen Instone, an honorary research fellow at University...
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Warning issued on overseas courses
UK universities and higher education colleges are not on top of everything that happens in their name overseas, researchers have warned. They need to be better informed and think more strategically...
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Two votes foil introduction of tuition fees in Slovakia
Legislation to introduce tuition fees at Slovak universities from January 2005 is to be redrafted after the country's Parliament rejected it - by two votes. Martin Fronc, the education minister, said...
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Holland to sample variable charges
University leaders in the Netherlands expect a limited experiment with variable fees to go ahead despite the resignation last month of a junior minister in the coalition government who was the...
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Give cash back as tax credits, says expert
University graduates in England and Australia pay far more in tax during their working lives than the cost of their education and therefore should not be charged for their studies, an English...
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Turkey pushes to reopen seminary
A theological higher education seminary on an island off the Turkish coast could be about to reopen after more than 30 years. Abdullah Gul, the Turkish foreign minster, said "work is under way" to...
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Toumaï tooth trouble
Palaeontologist Michel Brunet has dismissed claims that a tooth was stuck in the wrong place during reconstruction of Toumaï, a fossilised skull some 7 million years old, recognised as belonging to...
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Audit counts cost of student HIV/Aids
Aids-related deaths account for most of the R8 million (£708,000) written off by South Africa's National Student Financial Aid Scheme. NSFAS has had to write off 400 loans because student debtors...
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Wendy guides the lost online
A US university is showing new students what awaits them when they arrive on campus by inviting them to pry into the life of an imaginary female undergraduate. Dayton University in Ohio aims to...
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FP7 seeking to double budget
The European Commission expects a draft paper on its Seventh Framework Programme of research grants to suggest more than doubling the current budget. The paper, due in the autumn with formal...
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Mind the Gats, and keep doors open to everyone
Equity and quality are the buzzwords for countries hoping to profit from overseas students, says Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin Higher education is a major export industry. International student mobility...
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Alison Wolf
The Swedes face problems that mirror our own, so it's not surprising that they look with interest at developments in the UK What do your colleagues think of when they hear the word "Sweden"? Abba, of...
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Keep your Bunsen burning
Academics addicted to a 24-hours-a-day working habit should adopt Sir Richard Doll as their role model. The 91-year-old epidemiologist - who was horrified when asked if he would ever retire (Goodness...
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Who said 'quick fix'?
Those who criticised the Treasury's ten-year science review for being a rush job may be changing their minds. For weeks, there have been excited whisperings that the big announcement by Gordon Brown...