Older and wiser?
Dundee medical school announces today whether "fake schoolboy" Brian MacKinnon, who claimed he was 17 when in fact he was 32, will be allowed to keep his place. There are several good arguments...
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Crossed party lines at conference
A university vice chancellor recently complained that party conferences devote little or no time to higher education. He seemed to believe that all publicity is good publicity. Conferences have...
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Canada gets wise to science's social life
Canada lags behind most industrialised nations in recognising the crucial role of science and technology, according to a new report, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. Research and development spending,...
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Coca's hidden agenda
Research in Bolivia is helping to throw new light on coca, which has been used for centuries by Andean peoples as a remedy for tiredness, altitude sickness and staving off hunger. It is also the raw...
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Sexual refresher course
Plans for undergraduate sex education at the University of Delhi were dropped after a majority of academics said they did not know enough about the subject to teach. The university now plans to put...
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Malaysia sees role in market
Malaysia has urged more Australian students to study at its universities. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the recent "twinning" of Australian and Malaysian institutions had...
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US prison courses collapse
The chain-gangs are breaking rocks in Alabama again, and in Arizona's desert landscape convicts are housed in tent cities. But dwindling sympathy for the estimated one million inmates of United...
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Cable shapes campus to come
The Mind Extension University is a United States cable television network run from Colorado, a channel for people "who want to be smarter, richer and more successful". It relays courses from...
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Huge fees hike mars progress
The Malaysian government has promised to continue its dialogue with students and academics to iron out problems in the lead-up to university independence next January. Universities are funded through...
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Building block broken
State universities in Germany have received the go-ahead to seek private investment for building projects to ease chronic overcrowding of seminars and lecture theatres. The higher education planning...
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Austerity drive hits Hungary hard
Hundreds of teaching jobs could be lost and academic standards threatened in Hungarian universities under a finance ministry austerity drive demanding budget cuts of up to 20 per cent. Finance...
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Learners left out of Eurodelphi
An Athenian philosophy student is said to have asked the Delphic Oracle who was the wisest philosopher of the world, and was told that this was Socrates, who was wise enough to ask others about the...
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Budget brings sighs of relief
Higher education was one of the few government departments that escaped severe trimming in last week's French budget proposals. In contrast to an overall 1996 average budget increase of 1.8 per cent...
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Whitehall ex-chief welcomes probe
The largest-ever academic study of the workings of British government has been welcomed by a former head of the civil service. Lord Bancroft, head of the home civil service from 1978 to 1981 told the...
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Skulduggery at cutting edge
Some believe it was forged in Atlantis more than 12,000 years ago by star- beings bringing spiritual power to the earth. It has been linked with the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Bermuda triangle,...