MPs tell Nerc to justify 'mess'
The Natural Environment Research Council admitted last week that it could have handled last year's financial crisis better. The council was called before the Commons science and technology committee...
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Role of new teaching academy still unclear
A yellow honeycomb logo represents a network that has rapidly established itself in UK higher education over the past three years. Through its work with staff to aid and improve their teaching it has...
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Findings: Mice signpost the way home
Wood mice use a "Hansel and Gretel" approach to find their way around while out exploring, according to Oxford University researchers, writes Natasha Gilbert. David Macdonald and Pavel Stopka of...
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Sars curbs Antipodean recruitment drive in Asia
A drop in recruitment of overseas students to universities in New Zealand and ߣߣÊÓƵ due to the Sars epidemic could have a devastating knock-on effect for the institutions' incomes. The...
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Mathematician on course to be Wits' first black v-c
The University of Wi****ersrand is close to appointing Rhodes scholar and mathematician Loyiso Nongxa as its first black vice-chancellor. Professor Nongxa is currently acting vice-chancellor of the...
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Rome
The Italian government is to finance 3,500 extra Socrates/ Erasmus scholarships, bringing the total to 14,000. It will also more than double research grants to a total of 8,000. The €75 million (£26...
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Nouakchott
Mauritanian security forces have arrested students and university lecturers regarded as sympathetic to the Ba'ath Party of Saddam Hussein. Police claim pro-Iraqi elements in the university were...
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Paris
The City Hall has launched a trilingual website for foreign students who want to study in and around the French capital. It advises on general and academic life in the region, learning French, visas...
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Bangkok
The Thai cabinet has approved new funding of Baht464 million (£6,776,000) for research and development of biotechnology projects, to be administered through the National Centre for Genetic...
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Melbourne
Two groups of Croatian doctors and nurses are to take a specially designed 14-week course in emergency medicine at the University of Melbourne.
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Petaling Jaya
Malaysia's private institutions of higher education are to be responsible for the quality of their own courses under a new self-assessment scheme introduced by the National Accreditation Board.
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Brussels
Italian rectors have opened a Brussels office to help universities to make the most of European Union projects and to maintain contact with decision makers.
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Course tries to heal old rifts
Academics in Thailand are trying to break new ground in the study of regional history to defuse national rivalries. They blame an outbreak of anti-Thai rioting in Cambodia's capital city and a rift...
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Lula faces lecturers' strike over pay
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's honeymoon period is over, say the country's university lecturers. They say he has broken promises to increase their pay and is, instead, following...
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Prostitute myth has strong pull
Students at Russia's top universities who engage in casual prostitution are falling for the Pretty Woman myth, research suggests. A survey by US student Shonda Werry, who is studying international...