JRC membership drive pushes out eastwards
The European Union's Joint Research Centre wants to include more academics and scientists from countries seeking EU membership, expanding the European Research Area eastwards and southwards. Its...
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Canada's police complaints commission has urged the Mounties to apologise to student protesters for "inappropriate actions" at a Vancouver meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
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Research body accused of fraud
Italy's best-known independent social, economic and political research institute, Eurispes, is embroiled in accusations that it embezzled more than L4 million (£2.5 million) by running bogus training...
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Train delays derail exam
More than 10,000 trainee secondary teachers will have to retake their qualifying examination because of a rail breakdown near Paris. Holdups on a suburban railway line delayed many of the 1,100...
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Don's Diary: I, cyborg
Thursday Up at 5am for the drive to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Irena, my wife, and Mark Gasson, lead researcher, are with me. I do not like operations, yet here I am having one that I do not...
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In the news: Lovemore Madhuku
University of Zimbabwe law lecturer Lovemore Madhuku's Cambridge doctorate was on the legal aspects of bank financing for companies in Zimbabwe. But, in Zimbabwe's recent turmoil, his expertise as a...
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Make a valued decision
Perhaps booksellers should be advised to read some of the titles they sell. Amazon is currently offering the textbook Decision Analysis for Management Judgment - described as showing "how difficult...
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Latest news
Trials of cheap Aids vaccine under way Scientists starting a new phase of trials on a revolutionary Aids vaccine have started injecting 26 British volunteers with the treatment. The Medical Research...
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Sign for the times
The University of North London and London Guildhall University are forking out thousands of pounds on a new logo. Fishburn Hedges, which has been appointed to "create an identity for the soon-to-be-...
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Admissions U-turn
The Pembroke College "cash for places" scandal has had an interesting effect on Oxford West MP Evan Harris. John Platt, the former college chaplain and a good friend of Dr Harris, resigned last week...
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Open any hours?
Is there anyone there? Far from being the business-minded institutions that universities like to be portrayed as, it transpires that many cannot even manage to answer the phone during normal working...
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Homework rules
Meanwhile, keeping to working hours threatens a mutinous response at the University of Central England. A new code of practice for working at home has been drawn up. More information must now be...
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New Reading v-c
Congratulations to Gordon Marshall, who has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Reading. Professor Marshall, who is currently chief executive of the Economic and Social Research...
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Female Scots principal
Joan Stringer, principal of Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University College, will become Scotland's first female university principal in January when she succeeds John Mavor at Napier University....
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Get label conscious
The UK must keep an eye on plans to establish global quality regimes, says Peter Williams Perhaps it was inevitable. Before the globalisation of higher education has got much beyond the experimental...