Academe sizes up Spain's oil spill crisis
As oil from the tanker Prestige washes up on the coast of Galicia in Spain, universities are preparing to assess the damage to local ecosystems. Part of the palaeontology department of La Coruna...
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Christmas message
(Photograph) - In his traditional December address to Rome's students in St Peter's Square, the Pope spoke of the limits on temporal knowledge. 'Only God, with his omnipotence, controls the universe...
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French to set up tax breaks to boost R&
The French government is counting on the private sector to boost spending on research and development, and next year it will introduce tax breaks to innovatory companies and their investors. Industry...
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News in brief: Brussels
First calls for proposals under the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme were published this week. The European Commission has adopted detailed programmes for the research projects that it will...
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News in brief: Ottawa
Canada's supreme court has ruled against Harvard University in its long fight to win a Canadian patent for a genetically engineered mouse. The "oncomouse" has been patented in much of Europe, the US...
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News in brief: Paris
France has launched the first Francophone Virtual University of Medicine. It will be based at Lille-2 University, and will bring together 26 French medical faculties in a public-interest company,...
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News in brief: Brussels
All higher education students should study abroad for at least one term, preferably in a foreign language, and should gain a recognised language qualification at the end of their course, according to...
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Turkish MPs extend olive branch to expelled students
An amnesty for thousands of students is being pushed through the Turkish parliament. The amnesty covers students expelled for wearing a religious headscarf or signing petitions calling for Kurdish...
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Russia laments graduate exodus
Some 5 per cent of new Russian graduates - 100,000 over the past two years - are seeking jobs abroad, says Moscow State University rector Viktor Sadovnichiy. He warned a Unesco-sponsored...
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Real reform must mean a partnership of equals
Further education is vital to increasing both participation and quality in higher education, argues Colin Flint When you clear an office after 16 years, the experience can be one of reliving recent...
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Harry Kroto
The lack of toys that encourage our kids to develop good hand-eye coordination or to understand how things work might help explain why our railways are in such a parlous state It's the season of...
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A song for Santa
A college lecturer in Scotland has become a best-selling musician after recording an album of Santa's favourite songs. Gordon Campbell, an accountancy lecturer at Glasgow's Stow College, compiled...
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Well connected
He might not be the next director of the London School of Economics but, as consolation prizes go, Mervyn King must be counting his blessings. Tipped as the next director of the LSE, Professor King...
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Natural mover
Fame Academy winner David Sneddon this week vowed to go to university if his music dream turned sour. The 24-year-old former busker said: "After a year, if it all fails, I'll go to university and...
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Degrees of separation
An Italian mafia boss has discovered that crime has to pay after being refused a discount on his two sons' tuition fees. Bernardo Provenzano, Italy's most wanted criminal, inquired about getting...