Danes appoint critic to green think-tank
Denmark's environmental scientists have been thunderstruck by the appointment to a new environmental think-tank of a statistician known internationally for his critical approach to "phantom problems...
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Italians plead for research funding
Three of Italy's most respected academics have published an open letter to education minister Letizia Moratti and treasury minister Giulio Tremonti appealing for more financial support for scientific...
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Finn postgrad plan approved
Finland's polytechnics are to offer postgraduate degrees for the first time. A total of 53 degree programmes were submitted for a pilot assessment last October, but just 21 were approved. The...
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Spain 'drags its heels' over university reforms
Spain's government has pledged that education will be a priority during its presidency of the European Union, but it stands accused at home of dragging its heels over university reform. Education is...
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Students share gripes
Austrian students are being invited to contribute to the "longest letter of complaints in the world", which they plan to send to the country's education minister. The campaign has been launched by...
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Australian universities set for audit
A new round of Australian university audits has begun with ten institutions to be audited this year. Over the next five years, every university and the government higher education department will be...
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McGill bids to draw UK students
Montreal's attractions as a bicultural, inexpensive and cosmopolitan city have given McGill University a significant competitive advantage in the campaign to recruit international students. The...
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US grade rise 'unjustified'
Grade inflation is diluting the effectiveness of American higher education, according to a report that has heightened a debate about whether universities are coddling their students. The report, by...
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Kenya plans to tap own market
The Kenyan government is so concerned about the number of students being recruited by foreign universities that it is to hold an education fair to market the courses offered in the country's own...
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In the news: Jonathon Moyo
Jonathan Moyo, Robert Mugabe's controversial information minister, is the man behind the difficulties faced by the international media covering this week's chaotic presidential elections in Zimbabwe...
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Don's Diary: Seeking Hampton Court's Roots
Christmas 2000, Tuesday Daydreaming in the bath, I begin to wonder if there might be traces of an original design for Cardinal Wolsey's Hampton Court of c.1515 within the 200 years of additions that...
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A very public address
Stephen White, director of information at the British Psychological Society, is a keen member of the online science communication mailing list pcsi.com. So keen on passing on information is he that,...
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Amino royale
Princess Anne will be clearing the royal mantelpiece to make room for a gift from Edinburgh University this week. She opened its £8 million biomolecular research centre, which brings together a...
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Norwegians would
Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit of Norway - Europe's most unconventional royal couple - will move to the United Kingdom in the autumn to study. The prince will do a masters degree in...
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Frisk your laptop, sir?
Belarus has tightened its controls on the export of information so that anyone wishing to take a laptop computer out of the country has to deliver it to customs for checking 24 hours before departure...