High cost of happiness
Andrew Oswald and Andrew Clark of the University of Warwick school of economics have worked out the cost of happiness - and it is very expensive. Their study calculates the financial value of the...
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Manager sentenced
The former chief purchasing officer of Oxford University was spared jail last week after she admitted stealing £31,065 from her employers to fund a shopping addiction. Patricia Whitehead, 58, bought...
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Campus pick-up
Oxford Brookes University has bought the 4.8-acre Milham Ford School near its Headington campus in a deal thought to be worth £10 million.
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Perfecting placements
The government has set up a £400,000 Practice Learning Task Force to ensure good quality work experience for social-work students. It will encourage placements in settings from police forces to...
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Italians furious at being left in dark over research reforms
Reforms to Italy's leading state research institutes have infuriated academics, who were not consulted. The reforms will cut the number of institutes from 19 to 12, give them fewer resources and...
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Bethlehem University struggles amid war
Students hurry to their classes across the white stone-faced courtyard of Bethlehem University. After two years of the intifada and two more days of Israeli-imposed curfew, the university's 2,070...
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Minister attacks Hebron closures
Hebron and Hebron Polytechnic universities in the West Bank remain closed, according to Palestine's deputy minister of higher education, Hisham Kuheil. But nine others were still functioning. Mr...
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Computer students learn art of hacking
Would-be computer hackers can now go to a German university to learn the art of breaking into other people's systems - and leave with a degree. The courses are being offered at the University of...
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Denmark ignores objections and proceeds with legislation
Denmark's universities and research community have had only limited success in changing plans for university reform. Commenting on legislation brought before parliament by the science minister, Linda...
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Boost for public recruits
Harvard University has vastly expanded the number of grants and low-interest loans available to students who agree to go into education, social service, public health and similar careers, writes Jon...
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California risks Los Alamos contract amid fraud claim
The University of California could lose the contract to run the Los Alamos National Laboratory that it has held since the inception of the Manhattan Project during the second world war. The...
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Campus police in war on terror
The US government is enlisting university police departments in its war on terrorism. University police normally carry out duties such as patrolling sprawling campuses and stopping underage student...
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Three cheers for fees but what about growth?
Fees have dominated the white paper debate but, says Lord Dearing, every aspect of higher education will be affected Charles Clarke's predecessor as secretary of state for education pulled off a coup...
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Gary Day
George Orwell's favourite adjective was "decent" and he applied it to everyone who ate meat, drank and didn't wear sandals or pistachio-coloured shirts. All the rest were "cranks". Well, no one's...
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Certified losers
Vice-chancellors anxious to avoid the fines for high dropout rates threatened in the white paper might consider an idea from the head of the New York city school district. Carlos Lopez said that...