Testing time for quality group
South Africa has launched a higher education quality committee modelled on international counterparts and charged with promoting quality assurance, auditing the quality mechanisms of institutions and...
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Brussels urges harmonisation of standards
An international project to harmonise standards in university teaching throughout the European Union has been launched in Brussels. Called "Tuning Educational Structures in Europe", it is a network...
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Greeks revolt over institute upgrades
Greek university chancellors are threatening to resign en masse if the government presses ahead with its plan to upgrade technological institutes to full university status. Although the legislation...
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Vietnam to get first foreign university
Work is about to start on Vietnam's first foreign-owned university after the Asia Development Bank agreed to pay $7.5 million (£5.3 million) towards the project. The university is being established...
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Internet pioneers hope to cash in
Several US universities will begin offering undergraduate degrees in internet studies this autumn, attracted as much by fundraising possibilities as by student interest. At least four schools -...
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Japanese shy from netiquette
If you look at an average Japanese university website, you would think that the country had an acute shortage of web designers. "In a society which prides itself on presentation, it is surprising...
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NI duo unite to turn out entrepreneurs
Northern Ireland's two universities are working together in an initiative to promote entrepreneurship among students. The Northern Ireland Centre for Entrepreneurship (Nicent) is a joint venture...
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Intellectual property rules ruffle feathers
Joint research projects between European Union universities and industries are often hindered by shortcomings in EU internet intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, a report by the European...
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Cambridge armed with strong idea
Engineers at the University of Cambridge have designed a device to give a "helping arm" to people with muscular weaknesses such as muscular dystrophy or motor neurone disease. Prototypes have been...
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Rector calls for fund revolution
Fundamental funding reform of British universities is essential for the country to prosper in the knowledge economy, Sir Richard Sykes, rector of Imperial College, London, said last week. "If United...
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The World at 2000
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The deadly hubris of US in Russia
Failed Crusade
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Airborne victory forged in infernos
Former bomber navigator Patrick Moore discusses the effectiveness and the inhumanity of the Allies' bombing raids during the second world war. The second world war ended more than half a century ago...
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A digital drama of logical and tragic lives
The Universal Computer
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist who is interested in wind, sand and stars: "Once, when I was six years old I saw a...