Nobel winners back EU focus
Proposals for a European Research Council won influential backing this week with a plea from 43 Nobel prizewinners. A group led by Erwin Neher, winner of the 1991 Nobel prize for medicine, appeared...
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Student law clinic saves day for Strathclyde bride
Strathclyde University law students have saved the day for a bride-to-be who was told her £400 deposit could not be refunded after her wedding dress was made to the wrong measurements. The students,...
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Students beat up anti-violence v-c
Extra police have been drafted in at a Colombo University after a savage attack by students on its vice-chancellor, who has been at the forefront of efforts to control violence in universities. Sri...
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Israeli research counts cost of upped security
Israel's seven research universities this year face a deficit of almost half a billion shekels (Pounds 66 million) because of the deteriorating security situation. Some 800 million shekels have been...
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US service for a song
Some US universities are looking at providing a service under which students can download music from the internet for a fee in response to a music industry crackdown on illegal downloading of...
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Errors swell law intake
First-year law students at Prague's Charles University are having to study in double shifts because nearly 170 additional students who failed the entrance exam were admitted after errors in the...
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Having a job lifts results, says report
An ߣߣÊÓƵn study has found that students who work part time perform better in examinations than students without jobs. The findings counter growing concerns about the rising number of students...
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Army enters into row with rectors
The army has entered the escalating row between Turkey's government and university rectors over plans to reform higher education. Eight rectors have met the head of land forces, General Aytac Yalman...
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Big panel split delays reforms in Norway
A committee looking into the future of higher education in Norway is so split that it has delayed giving its report to the minister of education by a month. The ten-member committee, which is chaired...
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Toronto rating falls with markets
The weakened stock market that has hit university pension and endowment funds in Canada has been cited as the principal reason for the reduction in the credit rating of the University of Toronto....
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Read our lips: top-up fees simply won't work
Labour's conference has convinced Ian Gibson that the government won't listen to reason There may have been some inspired rhetoric that set off a few feel-good sparks at last week's Labour Party...
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Harry Kroto
Plain English was a bigcasualty of the Kelly affair. The secret service and Blair's advisers need to be taught a lesson I seem to remember that when I was a kid the primary aim of English lessons in...
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Text Tories for a fee-free year
As the Conservatives gathered in Blackpool for their party conference, they indulged in an incentive scheme to win the student vote. Shadow education secretary Damian Green encouraged students to...
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UUK retires to the fringes
Meanwhile, at last week's Labour Party Conference, vice-chancellors flaunting the fact they were no longer pushovers suffered something of a setback at their fringe meeting. Universities UK delegates...
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V-c runs on mystery bubbly
The Diary can disclose what fuels Alison Richard, the new vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. A sneaky peak in the premier's fridge revealed an industrial-sized box of chocolate bars and two...