Call to 'grasp' online learning opportunities
Inadequate planning and a reluctance to break with tradition are hindering universities from exploiting the potential of e-learning, a senior academic has warned. Mary Malcolm, professor of lifelong...
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Rich bias in foreign recruiting attacked
Britain's success in recruiting overseas students places too much emphasis on attracting the wealthy who can afford full fees at the expense of the poor who need more scholarship support, MPs heard...
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£3m promised to strengthen UKlinks with third world
Ministers have pledged to provide up to £3 million a year to foster links between UK universities and their counterparts in developing countries. Hilary Benn, the international development secretary...
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Indian alumnus sets up bursaries at Christ's
The head of one of India's largest pharmaceutical companies has established a £250,000 bursary scheme to help students from developing countries to study at Cambridge University, writes Paul Hill....
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British Council offices raided
Armed tax police have raided British Council offices in Moscow and eight of its other centres across Russia in a dispute over earnings from English-language teaching. The move, which is an apparent...
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Otago
Academics and other staff at Otago University have been issued with pre-emptive suspension notices 24 hours before they were due to walk out in protest at stalled pay negotiations. Unions are...
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New York
Human rights pressure group Scholars at Risk has expressed concern at an order from Saparmurat Niyazov, president of Turkmenistan, that invalidates all degrees received outside the country since 1993...
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Moscow
A Russian arms control researcher jailed in April for 15 years for spying should be released pending a retrial that meets international standards of fairness, according to human rights groups. "Igor...
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Luxembourg
The European Investment Bank is to lend €35 million (£23 million) to develop the campus of the postgraduate Danube University Krems in Austria. Krems, Europe's only state university for further and...
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Warsaw
Poland faces its first potential indictment before the European Court of Human Rights after the deportation last month of Ahmad Ammar, a Yemeni PhD student of law at Poznan University, for posing an...
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Abidjan
Morocco is to double scholarships to students from Côte d'Ivoire to 11,000 over the next academic year.
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China students cool towards Australia
An unexpected fall in the number of students from China seeking visas to study in Australia has alarmed vice-chancellors. Chinese students contribute more than A$200 million (£75 million) a year in...
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Harvard stir over medical trial pay
Harvard Medical School has increased the amount of money its 5,000 full-time faculty can earn from companies that stand to benefit from their research. Other US universities are expected to follow...
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More US students forced into debt
The proportion of US students who took out loans to pay educational expenses has risen by nearly 50 per cent in the past ten years as the cost of attending universities has outpaced the availability...
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Bioscience slides
Europe is falling further behind the US in the biosciences, according to a survey, writes Jane Marshall in Paris. The study, sponsored by the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique and presented at a...