Analysis: So what are you good at?
UK universities have great brand names and are good at research but not much else, a conference heard. Alison Goddard reports Universities and colleges should play to their strengths and stop trying...
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Pilot web project nets BBC science shows
Lecturers will be able to use innovative television science programmes as part of a pilot web project among four universities to see whether broadband video is a useful teaching and learning aid,...
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Scots aid student firms to file patents
The Scottish Institute of Enterprise has launched a £200,000 patent fund for student start-up companies. The SIE, which aims to instil an entrepreneurial spirit in science and engineering students,...
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Findings: Step forward for animation
It takes only a few minutes for the stumbling animated figures displayed on Torsten Reil's computer screen to learn how to walk. But by the time one has gained a confident gait, it will have gone...
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Findings: End to dancing in the street
The Restoration has gone down as a time of merrymaking after the Puritan austerity of the Commonwealth. The return of Charles II in 1660 meant theatres reopened, carol singing was decriminalised and...
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Bid to create online learning standards
The boom in online courses has led to a campaign for global agreements on e-learning standards. The project, eLearn Accredit, was launched at the annual meeting of the Open and Distance Learning...
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Cambridge, Mass
Harvard University has chosen its first visiting fellows for the Chicago University-based Scholars at Risk Network. Mehrangiz Kar, a legal scholar from Tehran, has been imprisoned in Iran as a result...
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Minsk
Belarusian president Alaksandr Lukashenka has warned rectors to be prepared for "surprises" during this year's entrance examinations as a government commission prepares to monitor the examinations -...
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Postgrad study urged for polys
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has come out strongly in support of plans to allow Finland's polytechnics to offer postgraduate degrees. The option is to be launched this...
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The Queen's Birthday honours list
ORDER OF THE COMPANIONS OF HONOUR CH Sir Michael Howard , emeritus professor of modern history, University of Oxford, for services to military studies. KNIGHTS BACHELOR Peter Bell ,...
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Skip Blue Nun, try Old Monk
The University of Siena is to recreate medieval Chianti wine after reconstructing the vineyards attached to a Tuscan monastery. The wine will be as close as possible to that of the Middle Ages, using...
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Russians cash in on Chinese shortfall
Oriental music and the high-pitched tonal sounds of Chinese chatter echo through the central hall of Volgograd's teaching university as students break for lunch. Milling around an exhibition of...
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Sex and drink-fuelled fraternities sober up
The hip series this summer on American TV is about university sororities. In promotional ads for the series, female undergraduates expound on the academic achievement of sorority members, their...
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Afghan exiles face dilemma as UN pushes for return
Every month, a small convoy of buses leaves Istanbul for the Afghan capital, Kabul. The buses are part of a growing exodus of refugees returning home after years and, for some, decades of exile....
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Tel Aviv tackles deficit crisis
Tel Aviv University has launched a four-year downsizing plan to deal with a 161 million shekel (£22 million) deficit. The plan has been approved by the planning and budgeting committee of Israel's...