Moscow
Russia is to reduce the number of university military training departments as part of a move to improve the recruitment of an educated officer class, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced....
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Paris
Alice Dautry is to take over as director-general of the Pasteur Institute from Oct-ober, replacing Philippe Kourilsky who presided over a controversial modern-isation programme for the medical...
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Indianapolis
The National Collegiate Athl-etic Association, which over-sees US intercollegiate sports, has partly backed down over a ban on team nicknames deemed "hostile and abusive" to native Americans. Florida...
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Hamilton
New South Wales's Charles Sturt University has become one of the first foreign institutions to be able to operate as a university in Ontario after enrolling more than a hundred students on a bachelor...
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Election key to university hopes
A would-be university in New Zealand hopes that a change of government after tomorrow's general election may help its case, after its application was turned down last month. In August, more than six...
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Italy's internet dottores risk jail
Italians are suckers for a title and, while contessa and principe may have fallen into disuse, a thirst for academic ones has made some Italians easy targets for internet scams. Rome's consumer...
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Scarf ban protest
Scores of Turks who graduated from universities in Europe after being barred from Turkish institutions for insisting on their right to wear items of religious clothing have held a joint graduation...
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Research flaws exposed
Flaws in France's university research system have been exposed by an official inquiry. From its examination of 45 establishments, the Cour des Comptes, the equivalent of Britain's National Audit...
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Bitter pay disputes grip Argentina and Peru
University lecturers in two South American countries are embroiled in deep-rooted disputes with their governments. In Argentina, university teachers are divided about whether to continue with strikes...
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Evacuees could stay away, say officials
Universities in the New Orleans area have a new concern now that most of their students have found places at schools outside the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina - getting them back. Some 30...
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Fearful academics belie funding body's positive spin
The director of the agency that distributes funding for Mexico's research has resigned weeks after a survey found that wrangling over resources was responsible for low morale among academics. Jaime...
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Colombia ploughs cash into PhDs
Colombia is making moves to promote postgraduate research by increasing the number of loans and scholarships for doctoral programmes despite a high undergraduate degree non-completion rate. More than...
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Don't tolerate hatred of gays in the name of God
Homophobia has split the Anglican Communion, says Andrew Linzey. Isn't it time for academics to speak out? "Warning! Gospel preaching ahead" are the words that greet you if you visit the website www....
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Gary Day
Even those who heed the motto 'be prepared' can wind up relieving themselves in a lay-by watched by a dead fish... Academic conferences are serious business, unlike party political ones. Yet it is...
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Refuses to wear a union jack bowler
Poor me. Corrupted by years of liberal intellectualising and shackled by a desiccated, over-analytic mind, how could I possibly understand or enjoy the Last Night of the Proms? Where others see a...