Washington DC
An 89-year-old industrialist has established the largest US award for medical research, rivalling the Nobel prize, with a $50 million endowment. From next year, the $500,000 Albany Medical Center...
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Paris
France's education ministry has promised to find accommodation for students during renovation of the Sorbonne, after governors threatened to cancel all courses in protest against unsafe and...
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Moscow
Russian president Vladimir Putin has doubled the size of presidential scholarships for promising students in an impromptu announcement made during a visit to Moscow's Bauman State Technical...
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Private universities soon to end Austrian state's monopoly
Three private universities in Austria are on the verge of receiving national accreditation in a move that signals the end of the state monopoly on education. The government hopes the move will...
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Teacher trainers think global
The first international conference for heads of teacher-training institutions has laid the foundations for setting up a worldwide teacher-training network. The three-day Paris conference, "Priorities...
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Belgrade rector rebuilds campus
The woman at the helm of Belgrade University faces the daunting task of re-establishing a historic institution that was starved of funding during the 13-year regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Acting...
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Essay prize gives Slovak students chance to enter politics
One of Slovakia's newer political parties has announced a scheme to bring students more actively into the country's political life. Smer (Direction), led by populist Robert Fico, announced an essay-...
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Nation of farmers harvests scholars
The bright lights of Beijing are just an hour's drive from the grinding poverty of the rural communities that still till the soil by hand. With 1.2 billion people, China is the world's most populous...
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NZ looks for allies to call in debt
The New Zealand government is holding talks with the Australian and British governments to establish if their tax systems can be used to recover loan debts from former students living overseas. Steve...
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Flagship scheme starts to bear fruit
The first study of the Commonwealth's flagship student mobility scheme for more than a decade shows overwhelming enthusiasm from former students. How the scheme will be shaped in future years will be...
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V-cs: sector is on brink of mediocrity
The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee has warned that Australian higher education is in danger of "sliding into mediocrity" unless public funding is increased. It called on the federal...
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Email campaign leaves don facing the sack
An 18-month dispute between a leading South African social anthropologist and the University of Natal in Durban has ended with a recommendation that she be sacked. The committee rejected claims by...
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Disgusted voters turn to e-petitions
The Scottish Parliament's petitions committee yesterday received a 545-signature "e-petition", which was conducted using a system developed at Napier University. The e-petition, which demands the...
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Fish get colour-me-tasty treatment
Researchers at the University of Plymouth have developed a technique that will help fish-food producers find the right formula to produce healthy looking salmon and trout. Paul Russell, senior...
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Speedy Oz chips attract big bucks
An Australian computer chip company, founded three years ago by two Macquarie University researchers in Sydney, was bought by US technology giant Cisco for $295 million (£207 million) last...