Canberra
Julie Bishop, a former lawyer, will take over from Brendan Nelson as ߣߣÊÓƵ's Education Minister in a mid-term ministerial reshuffle. Dr Nelson is promoted to Defence Minister.
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Moscow
Lawyers for Valentin Danilov, the Siberian scientist jailed on charges of spying for China, have lodged a new appeal with the Russian supreme court. Mr Danilov, former head of thermo-physics at...
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Luxembourg
European Advocate General Poiares Maduro has recommended fines against Italy of €265,500 (£182,000) for each day it fails to comply with a European Court of Justice ruling on the status of foreign...
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Rome
A US professor's job offer at Milan University's teaching hospital, the Policlinico, was rescinded after his conviction for the sexual assault of a 23-year-old student at Pennsylvania State...
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Baku
Two Azerbaijani students who claimed they were expelled from their universities on political grounds have been reinstated after a three-week hunger strike. The students, Turan Aliyev of the Pedagogic...
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Paris
Efforts to save the Librairie Place de la Sorbonne, a cultural and intellectual landmark in the Latin Quarter of Paris for more than 80 years, have failed. The bookshop on Boulevard St-Michel will...
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Behind freedom's veil, they plot for revolution
Hizb ut-Tahrir is targeting Muslims on UK campuses to overthrow our allies, warns former member Shiraz Maher "The Current Affairs Society? It's just an intellectual platform for discussing Muslim...
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Booted out of complacency
The death of his PC taught Kevin Fong that his most valuable possession was not a computer but its contents It is impossible to exist in the university universe without being heavily dependent on a...
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Let them tune in to the degree DJ
Heard about podcasting? No, it's not a disease as some of your colleagues believe, says Harriet Swain, it is a lively way of broadcasting information to technologically savvy students Broadcasting...
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Beautiful figures, vital statistics
Name: Duncan Lawson Age: The right side of 50 Jobs: Professor of mathematics education and associate dean in the faculty of engineering and computing at Coventry University. I am also Coventry...
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Ask the panel
Worried about your employment, maternity, pension rights? Send your questions to The Times Higher advice panel. I am in my 50s but new to academia. I fear that I am going to be left out of the 2008...
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West set to fill gaps in dentistry
Plymouth and Exeter universities, which jointly run Peninsula Medical School, will be looking to fill at least 35 academic posts after a successful bid to create a dental school for the South West....
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Who's in who's out?
BATH Straight men no longer need to prove their heterosexual credentials thanks to a general decrease in homophobia, says Eric Anderson. Dr Anderson, who has joined Bath University as lecturer in...
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Staff unready for new age challenges, survey says
Age discrimination is "deeply ingrained" in higher education, and most university staff are unaware of forthcoming laws that will protect them from unfair treatment, experts said this week. Following...
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Rachael Johnson: The geeks shall inherit the basement
THE IT CROWD Fridays, 9pm, Channel 4 If there's one thing that ten years in the front line of university IT support services has taught me, it's that IT nerds are a race apart. They even stand out...