Oxbridge's old dogs learn new tricks
Revamped systems of governance are the result of a rude awakening for two traditional rivals. Claire Sanders and Phil Baty report Oxford University believes it has the edge on Cambridge University...
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Jet lag linked to psychosis
Jet lag can prompt relapses of psychotic disorders and could trigger new cases in predisposed individuals. A study of 152 foreign tourists admitted to the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Centre in Jerusalem...
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Quitting is a thrifty thought
Willpower is not the only factor that determines the success of those new year's resolutions to stop smoking. Researchers have calculated the exact role of the tax man for the first time. Andrew...
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Journal publishing turned on its head
An independent publishing company has launched a scheme to provide universities with free access to its peer-reviewed journals by charging them to allow their academics to submit papers, writes...
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Sainsbury ups game in play for extra cash
Science minister Lord Sainsbury has promised to put in an "ambitious" bid for cash to the next comprehensive spending review despite economic circumstances being more difficult than for the last...
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Canadian surveys show money matters
Higher-income Canadian high-school students are two-and-a-half times more likely to attend university than their low-income schoolmates, according to statistics. The study, released by Statistics...
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Challenge to closure of Zambia University
Students were turfed off Zambia's main university campus as a new Zambian president was sworn in last week. Academics said it was not a promising sign that Levy Mwanawasa, the first president to be a...
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Mugabe clamps down on student protesters
Zimbabwean student leaders are facing mounting danger from Robert Mugabe's government in the run-up to presidential elections, which are just three months away. Several students who are critical of...
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News in brief
Buenos Aires Argentina's new education minister, Graciela Giannettasio, says she will maintain free education at the country's public universities. She takes over from Andres Delich, who resigned the...
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Tagore rights lost
Viswabharati University founded by India's pre-eminent poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, in Shantiniketan near Calcutta, has lost its copyright over his works after clinging on to them for...
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Achievements under threat
Individuals from Canada's First Nations peoples have been enrolling in higher education in numbers that are the envy of other countries' aboriginal populations despite stagnant funding and persistent...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ's Aborigines struggle to keep gains
Until the re-election of the government of prime minister John Howard in 1998, improving university access for ߣߣÊÓƵn Aborigines was one of the nation's great success stories. In the 1990s,...
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Indigenous peoples are among the most deprived in the world
Indigenous peoples are among the most deprived in the world, especially when it comes to education. THES reporters consider what progress they have made. The world's 300 million First Nations peoples...
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Native tribes get to work together, teach each other and exhibit their value
Mexico's first indigenous university - the University of Mochicahui - opened in October 2000 and now has more than 1,200 students from 13 different states. The university, in a small town in...
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Capitalist fills in red Czech past
A quarter-page ad in the Prague Pill - the Czech capital's newest free listings magazine - displays a bold portrait of Vladimir Lenin beneath a copy line peppered with Cyrillic-style lettering: "Down...