Glittering prizes
Adrian Bird, Buchanan professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh, has been awarded the 1999 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine - Pounds 0,000 towards further research and a personal award of...
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Frankfurt
German foreign minister Joschka Fischer (Green) has suggested a Frankfurt School of Economics should be set up in the European financial capital. He told the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper that such...
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Florence
The production methods and marketing policies of Tuscany's most celebrated Chianti producer, Marquis Vittorio Frescobaldi, are attracting the attention of Harvard economists, who have decided to...
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Akureyri
An Arctic institute has been established on Iceland to cement internal collaboration in the country's research environment, promote sustainable development in the Arctic areas and strengthen Iceland'...
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Kuala Lumpur
The Malaysian government agency responsible for preparing and sponsoring higher education students has asked for M$582 million (Pounds 92.3 million) from the country's entrepreneur development...
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The devil is in the detail
Bryan Gould says the New Zealand government's 'fair' proposals threaten the universities' international standing Unlike the United Kingdom or Australia, New Zealand retains a differentiated higher...
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Eye witness
In Sierra Leone, a fragile ceasefire has made little impact on the fierce battle for Freetown, the capital, between rebel forces and Nigerian troops who form the mainstay of the ECOMOG peace-keeping...
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US lawyers fight for gay GI rights
American law professors have put their considerable persuasive skills behind an effort to get gays and lesbians an equal place in the nation's armed forces. More than 180 faculty members from about...
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Academic cold war sets in after sanctions on 'missile aid' to Iran
Sanctions imposed by the Americans against three top Russian technical universities, following claims that they were helping Iran build missiles and nuclear weapons, have provoked fears that years of...
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Gender tables turned in key Australian university posts
A change that will shatter male domination of Australian universities forever has occurred over the past ten years. The lonely female pioneers who made their mark in the leading professions in the...
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Violence erupts as premier visits University of Barcelona
The Autonomous University of Barcelona has declared Spanish prime minister Jose Mar!a Aznar persona non grata after a visit to the campus ended with an "unprovoked" attack on students by police....
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How to get an encore - video it
WHAT Chris O'Hagan argues that videos of lectures and presentations are an easyway of spreading the good word and good practice WHY Lectures are still the mainstay of curriculum delivery, and if the...
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Take a deep breath
(Photograph) - Daniel Storey, an environmental science student at the University of Coventry, is taking a module in practical underwater skills at the Stoney Cove Diving Centre in Leicestershire....
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Star Turn
Alison Utley sits with the men and women in suits learning how to turn business around Everyone anticipates that students as paying customers will become more demanding -on that basis, Chris Pierce's...
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Swiss pave the way for centralised system
A more centralised way of planning Switzerland's universities has been proposed by the federal government and is being debated by MPs. Legislation based on proposals from the federal office for...