One man's pursuit of paradise
In his forthcoming memoirs, Clark Kerr recalls the years he spent in California trying to create the perfect campus. Sadly, as Sheldon Rothblatt discovers, social unrest and Ronald Reagan were to...
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Starting early on statistics
The CensusAtSchool project is introducing kids to data collection while creating an international learning resource, report Neville Davies and Doreen Connor. Civilisations throughout the ages have...
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Police halt Venezuelan protest Police have broken up violent protests at the Universidad Central de Venezuela after armed students blocked a session of the university parliament. The students were...
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Cambridge reviews management structure Cambridge University is facing a management shake-up. Dons will next week debate the appointment of two more pro vice-chancellors, an enhanced executive role...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Patti Waldmeir argues that a limited abuse of copyright can be a spur to scholarship, innovation and democracy. Hank McKinnell, chief executive of Pfizer, argues that cheaper drugs...
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Victory for downgraded dons Twenty-one foreign-language lecturers at the University of Verona who were downgraded to technical staff following a change in Italian law in 1995 have had their status...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph The government should stop attacking elite universities for failing to recruit more state pupils and focus instead on the failings of comprehensive education, says Anthony Smith,...
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Oxford and Princeton form research alliance Oxford and Princeton universities have announced collaboration on research and student exchanges, giving both access to new funding bodies and a...
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Imperial awaits sentence for GMO breach Imperial College was today awaiting sentence after it admitted breaching health and safety legislation regulating the use of genetically modified organisms. At...
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Ethiopian campus reopens after riots The University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia reopened today after last week’s disturbances in which 40 people died. Student demands for police to leave the...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian The days of the global email virus may be numbered after Ministry of Defence scientists developed software that could prevent worldwide, mail-borne infections such as the...
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Students held in detention camps Thousands of Ethiopian students are being held in detention camps following last week's riots in Addis Ababa in which 39 people died and 250 were wounded. The...
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Dons come together for genetics debate Animal geneticists are to join the public for a Question Time -style debate in Edinburgh tonight. It will be hosted by the Agriculture and...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Fiona Harvey says that scientists are learning how to build tiny machines a few atoms wide; industrial applications may be a decade or more away but progress has been astonishing....
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China given warning on jailed three
The detention without trial of three academics of Chinese ancestry is threatening China's links with the rest of the world, President Jiang Zemin was warned this week. Two of the academics were...