Dino buoys glided gracefully
They may have shaken the dinosaur world with every footfall, but research suggests that sauropods could have glided like punts across shallow water. Plant eaters such as Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus and...
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Society set up to counter threats
British philosophers have regrouped in a new association designed to protect and enhance the discipline's academic reputation against threats including cuts to research funding. The British...
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Scots urge radical rethink of tertiary sector
Scotland could devise radical new definitions of further and higher education, making it easier for universities and colleges to forge innovative links. The Scottish Executive is urging a rethink of...
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AoClends support to FE top-up charges
Britain's further education colleges should charge their wealthiest higher education students £3,000 across-the-board top-up fees, college bosses said this week. The Association of Colleges said that...
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Unified budget is best
Greater central control of budgeting is the secret to boosting a university's teaching and research ratings, as well as dealing with any financial deficits, according to Leicester University's vice-...
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E-learning university targets student market in Singapore
More than 1,500 Singaporean students are expected to enrol with Scotland's Interactive University, generating an anticipated £6 million over the next three years, writes Olga Wojtas. The news was...
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Trust me, I'm the doc's son
Charges by Italian health minister Girolamo Sirchia that jobs in medical schools are "hereditary" have been supported by a ruling in the courts. Judges have cancelled the appointment of a specialist...
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America slow to take international outlook
American university students remain largely cloistered from international affairs in spite of wars and worldwide terrorism, according to a study. The report, from the American Council on Education,...
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'We must meet the US challenge'
French education minister Luc Ferry has told universities to attract more foreign students, and to use their increased powers to strengthen their public-service ethos. He said they had to resist...
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SA technikons to be repackaged
South Africa's technikons (polytechnics) are to be renamed universities of technology in a repackaging exercise that has also established identities for new institutions created by a dozen mergers...
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Scandal-hit Slovakia in U-turn
The education committee of the Slovakian parliament is to reverse September's law abolishing tuition fees for external students. The legislation gave students the right to study free and banned...
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New Zealand v-cs bite the bullet and stick within tuition fee limits
New Zealand universities are setting student fees for 2004 within limits they criticised when they were announced earlier this year. Although the government's hope that rises would be less than the...
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Overseas student numbers to soar
A fourfold jump in the number of students seeking access to higher education in other countries by 2025 is predicted by researchers from IDP Education ߣߣÊÓƵ - from 2 million this year to 7.6...
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Wits v-c sets out stall for transformation
Loyiso Nongxa's appointment as the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand is a South African success story, writes Karen MacGregor in Durban. Professor Nongxa, who had a...
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You pay for my study, I'll pay for your daughter's
One way to ensure cash for higher education is for each generation to invest in the next, argues Rob Marris Whether top-up fees will have the positive effect on university funding suggested in the...