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Council shifts focus in Russia
British Council makes the move from teacher training to supporting a cultural dialogue. Nick Holdsworth reports. The British Council is to change the focus of its work in Moscow after a period of...
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Police uncover course scam
The former director and the deputy director of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy's most important university academy of music, have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in...
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US guide lists gay friendly
A new book claiming to list the 100 most gay-friendly universities has jumped into the ever-expanding rankings market. The 389-page Advocate College Guide , published by the national gay and lesbian...
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Canada to reinstate funding for overseas scholars
Canada's Government has decided to again support international scholarships after half a year when the programmes were in financial limbo. Last summer, the Government suspended C$13.5 million (£5.9...
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Belarus poised for unrest
Campaign to free an academic jailed for challenging the country's president starts to take off, writes Vera Rich The wife of Alexander Kazulin, physicist and former rector of the Belarussian State...
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Minister defends cap on foreigners
A complaint from the European Commission that universities in French-speaking Belgium discriminate against foreign students will be formally rejected by the Belgian Government this week. Furthermore...
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Labour's infidelity will not be forgiven easily
By reclaiming £68 million in funding, the Government lost the trust of the science community, argues Martyn Amos. Ripples from the collapse of Rover two years ago are apparently lapping at the doors...
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Gary Day
Chaucer said that in spring folk long to go on package holidays, or something like that. Chance would be a fine thing. The nearest we get to a break is a change of job. After the furore of my last...
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Trust us... forget the balls-ups
The University of Central England Birmingham sought internal auditing advice from legendary fraudster Nick Leeson last week. The former money market trader whose covert activities led to the collapse...
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The cost of rational treasure
Cutting red tape is a tricky business, but it appears that auditing bodies feel it more acutely than most. According to the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education's annual accounts, "...
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Incentive-driven business
Ferrying vice-chancellors from A to B is rather less costly than the above, but the University of Central Lancashire is still prepared to pay up to Pounds 16,000 for a "smart, professional and...
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It's just a private affair
Meanwhile, affairs between academics and students will be condoned in Croatia's capital if the new code of behaviour issued by Zagreb University is anything to go by. It states that voluntary sexual...
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Is there no longer room for debate?
Matthias Kuntzel says Leeds University's decision to cancel his lecture on anti-Semitism in Islam has worrying implications. At 1pm on March 14, I arrived in Leeds to be told that the university,...
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Avant-garde is alive in our creative workshops
Art schools have long nurtured innovation. Their models have a great deal to offer universities, argues Anne Bamford. It was a lesson once enjoyed by John Lennon, Damien Hirst, Eric Clapton, the...