Scotland clinches Iran oil deal
Scottish Knowledge has signed a $1 million (£650,000) deal with the Iranian National Oil Company to modernise a petroleum institute, writes Alison Goddard. Under the deal, Scottish universities will...
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Afrikaners object to enforced English
Afrikaners have protested to the South African government over its decision to "force" English teaching at Afrikaans universities. A leading pressure group has said ministers are making the same...
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Grade bandwagon runs wild
Top universities in the US have been caught up on the grade inflation bandwagon, and they fear that they cannot get off. After the disclosure that Harvard University had been awarding honours to more...
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Why Bude is a poco Español
Ecologists have rebranded parts of southern Cornwall as more continental than English in a pilot study of European land use, vegetation and climate. Researchers made the links while comparing British...
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Employers offer 3.5% rise
Rises in lecturers' starting salaries of up to 13 per cent as part of a general 3.5 per cent pay offer are likely to buy off academics threatening a winter of industrial action. University employers...
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Israeli academic considers joining boycott
A leading Israeli dissident scholar may join an international boycott of his country's academic community in protest against last week's closure of the East Jerusalem offices of the president of Al-...
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Analysis: Science revels in £1.25bn bonanza
Spending review sees chancellor move to make life 'absolutely' fabulous for scientists but higher education loses out to schools British science is celebrating its most successful comprehensive...
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And cash keeps on coming...
As chancellor Gordon Brown sat down after delivering his speech in Parliament, the Wellcome Trust announced details of its own £280 million spending review, writes Caroline Davis. The world's largest...
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Schools take lion's share as sector has to wait and see
An extra £12.8 billion will go into education over the next three years, a rise of 6 per cent in real terms. This takes the total budget from £45 billion in 2002-03 to £57.8 billion in 2005-06. But...
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Ulyanovsk
The University of Ulyanovsk is under threat of flooding, regional governor Vladimir Shamanov told Russian president Vladimir Putin during a visit to the city. Mr Shamanov said river banks needed to...
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São Paulo
Nine thousand students at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, who have been on strike for more than two months because of insufficient teaching staff, say they will continue their strike until at least...
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Moscow
A student-run cafe called Putin, in the Urals industrial city of Chelyabinsk, was forced to change its name after officials complained that the Russian president had not been asked for permission....
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Foreign students brace themselves for hike in Japan's fees
Budget cuts in Japan could severely affect most of the 78,000 overseas students enrolled at the country's 4,800 universities and higher education institutions. From April next year, self-financing...
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Warring team forfeits research
Canadian research into detecting depleted uranium (DU) in Gulf war veterans is being transferred to a laboratory in the UK after the original team broke up. Following a series of clashes in the earth...
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Belarus professor jailed by regime
The arrest and imprisonment of Belarusian physics professor and pro-democracy activist Yury Khadyka has attracted protests from human rights activists worldwide. Although only a ten-day prison term...