Icon of right snubbed
Montreal's McGill University has rejected a substantial amount of money from a donor keen to establish a chair in the name of late libertarian icon Ayn Rand. McGill dismissed the idea of setting up a...
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New Jersey
The Princeton University official who wrongly accessed rival Yale University's confidential website for applicants has been required to resign his post but will remain employed by the university,...
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Buenos Aires
Students of naval architecture at Argentina's state Universidad Nacional de Quilmes have earned the university $8,000 (£182,000) over the past two years by designing, constructing and selling yachts...
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N'djamena
University authorities in Chad and Bangui and N'djamena in the Central African Republic have stepped up security on their campuses in response to claims of intimidation of students as clashes between...
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Academe presents wish list to Labour
New Zealand's academics have called on the country's new Labour-led minority government to boost investment in universities. The Labour Party formed a coalition last week with the Progressive...
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Italy to link lecturer pay to quality
Pay rises for Italy's academics could soon be subject to periodic "quality checks". University minister Letizia Moratti has said that quality evaluation is "fundamental for the growth of the...
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FP6 hits new hitch
The roll-out of Europe's €16.2 billion (£10 billion) Sixth Framework Programme on research has hit a last-minute hitch. European Union institutions take August off, but the new Danish presidency...
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Beirut boost after 9/11
The American University of Beirut has unexpectedly benefited from greater interest from the Gulf region after the events of September 11. The AUB has been working hard since Lebanon's civil war ended...
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Kabul head begs UK academe for help
Senior staff at the University of Kabul feel the international academic community should do much more to support their struggle to restore their institution after decades of destruction. Kabul...
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Shuffle cheers Czech rectors
Czech higher education is likely to see a shift in research resources away from old Soviet-style institutes to universities in a shake-up of the education ministry after June's election of a new left...
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Academe's UK stars of future shun Cambridge
Cambridge University has commissioned research to find out why it is suffering a dramatic slump in home applications for postgraduate study. While application rates soar at other leading research...
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Call for consistent standards in postgraduate training
Universities should judge themselves against new postgraduate training benchmarks in a bid to ensure consistent standards across the country, says a review for the funding councils. The report's wide...
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Medics learn to blow whistle
Medical students in the UK must now learn how to blow the whistle on incompetent colleagues. The General Medical Council has published a set of recommendations for medical education that places a...
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The Parthenon
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a Nobel laureate born in Lorain, Ohio: "He believed he was safe." The winner receives a £25...