Analysis: How the brain drain became a brain gain
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports Canadian universities are at the heart of a series of research...
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Analysis: Mounties and big bounties
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports There is an acknowledged worldwide shortage of scientists, especially...
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Whistleblowers: Hefce oversees review of complaints process
Funding chiefs are monitoring reforms to student complaints procedures at the University of Central Lancashire after a blind student with one leg suffered unnecessary distress over the handling of...
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Bar stars shake up rivals in shoot-out
Kilted bartenders, emulating Tom Cruise's bar-room skills in the film Cocktail , are the stars of the newly launched Strathclyde University student business start-up, Liquid Assets. The professional...
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Divorcees, not gardeners, like to learn
Breaking up is not so hard to do for lifelong learners. A survey carried out for the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education has found that the proportion of lifelong learners in the...
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Findings: Babies know their monkeys
Babies are born with an innate ability to tell the faces of different primates apart. Research has shown that at six months an infant is as adept at differentiating between simians as they are humans...
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Findings: Hungry army sacked empire
While all armies march on their stomachs, the fourth crusade was led by its belly to one of the most shameful episodes in medieval warfare. The chain of events that prompted a Christian army to...
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Promising start-ups get a cash kickstart
Methods to protect the active ingredients in drugs and to detect cancers using light have won the research councils' business plan competitions. Last week, scientists from Nottingham University and a...
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Berlin 'to rival Harvard'
Germany's leading companies are to launch an elite university for young managers in Berlin in October, which they hope will compete with Harvard University and the London Business School. Eighteen...
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Irish are 'losing out on excellence' because of visa red tape
Irish universities claim they are losing out in the competition for top-class international academics and students because of visa and work permit red tape. And they say that bringing in academics...
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Israel strives to keep business as usual
Israel's university campuses are reflecting the political upheaval created by Palestinian suicide bombers and Israeli army incursions into towns across the West Bank. Issues of freedom of speech and...
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Brussels
A deal to implement the European Union's €16.2 billion (£10 billion) Sixth Framework Programme on research from January 2003 was finalised on Wednesday. All of the European Parliament's main...
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Ann Arbor
The University of Michigan law school acted legally when it took race into account when deciding which students to admit, a federal appeal court ruled this week. The court overturned an earlier...
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Russia pins its hopes on allies
One of the key architects of Russia's education modernisation programme has called for international cooperation for reform to step up a level. Viktor Bolotov, Russia's first deputy minister of...
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Sea tunnel vision
Engineers at the University of Naples have developed a "submerged floating tunnel", which is anchored to the sea bed and which they claim overcomes many of the structural and environmental problems...