Divorcees, not gardeners, like to learn
Breaking up is not so hard to do for lifelong learners. A survey carried out for the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education has found that the proportion of lifelong learners in the...
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Findings: Babies know their monkeys
Babies are born with an innate ability to tell the faces of different primates apart. Research has shown that at six months an infant is as adept at differentiating between simians as they are humans...
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Findings: Hungry army sacked empire
While all armies march on their stomachs, the fourth crusade was led by its belly to one of the most shameful episodes in medieval warfare. The chain of events that prompted a Christian army to...
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Promising start-ups get a cash kickstart
Methods to protect the active ingredients in drugs and to detect cancers using light have won the research councils' business plan competitions. Last week, scientists from Nottingham University and a...
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Berlin 'to rival Harvard'
Germany's leading companies are to launch an elite university for young managers in Berlin in October, which they hope will compete with Harvard University and the London Business School. Eighteen...
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Irish are 'losing out on excellence' because of visa red tape
Irish universities claim they are losing out in the competition for top-class international academics and students because of visa and work permit red tape. And they say that bringing in academics...
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Israel strives to keep business as usual
Israel's university campuses are reflecting the political upheaval created by Palestinian suicide bombers and Israeli army incursions into towns across the West Bank. Issues of freedom of speech and...
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Brussels
A deal to implement the European Union's €16.2 billion (£10 billion) Sixth Framework Programme on research from January 2003 was finalised on Wednesday. All of the European Parliament's main...
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Ann Arbor
The University of Michigan law school acted legally when it took race into account when deciding which students to admit, a federal appeal court ruled this week. The court overturned an earlier...
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Russia pins its hopes on allies
One of the key architects of Russia's education modernisation programme has called for international cooperation for reform to step up a level. Viktor Bolotov, Russia's first deputy minister of...
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Sea tunnel vision
Engineers at the University of Naples have developed a "submerged floating tunnel", which is anchored to the sea bed and which they claim overcomes many of the structural and environmental problems...
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Campus rush hits ߣߣÊÓƵ
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities have experienced a 14 per cent jump in enrolments this year with an estimated 835,000 students expected on campus. The unprecedented increase of more than 100,000 students...
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Dental cut too far ends in court
The New Zealand government faces paying students and the University of Otago more than NZ$15 million (£4.6 million) after the High Court declared that the decision to cut funding to the university's...
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US college aims for UK overhaul
An American small college has set out to become the first UK-style business university and has hired a leading academic from the London School of Economics to help. Bentley College, which has fewer...
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In the news: Fellows of the Royal Society
The Royal Society this week announced the following fellows: Allan Bradley , director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge; Robin Carrell , professor of haematology at the University of...