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Bill unveiled for $1bn university quake fund Two California congressmen are sponsoring a bill to set up a $1 billion trust fund to help universities revamp their buildings to withstand earthquakes....
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Mandarin admits policy entangled in red tape Education department chief Sir Michael Bichard admitted to MPs yesterday that education policy, such as the teaching quality assessment, had become overly...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times The University of Liverpool has positioned itself as a centre for the next generation of dotcom entrepreneurs by unveiling the first UK degree in e-business. The Independent Thousands...
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Oxford attacked over race bias Oxford University’s Majlis Asian society has said it is concerned about the university’s attitude to race issues. It is particularly outraged by Oxford's handling of an...
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Violence erupts over Venezuelan protest Academics and students at the Central University of Venezuela were among the injured as students who want an end to a month-long occupation over university...
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Financial Times King's College, London, is to borrow £60m to help fund investments - the biggest unsecured loan raised by a British university. The Guardian The saga of quality assessment in British...
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£18 million for technology partnerships Trade secretary Stephen Byers today announced eight new Faraday partnerships for researching environmentally friendly technology. The £18 million for the...
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Financial Times Interview with Gabriel Hawawini, Insead's new dean, regarded by some as a conservative choice but who has a radical vision of the school's future. Berkeley's Haas School of Business...
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Latest international news
Russians jail American scholar An American Fulbright scholar who denied selling marijuana while a postgraduate researcher at Russia's Voronezh State University has been sentenced to three...
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Students sleep while dads toil
As Britain's university sector strives for mass participation, Patricia Walker warns of a system where more means less. With more than 1,200 universities and junior colleges, and 3 million students,...
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Why I ... recommend semi-retirement
As the nights grow longer and the prostate region begins to creak, many of us look enthusiastically at early retirement. In my own case, the prospect of turning into a man of leisure was somewhat...
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Uncreative friendship
The relationship between the university and commerce poses a threat to long-term innovation, argues Jonathan Rutherford. "In the knowledge economy," prime minister Tony Blair declared recently, "...
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Life in a smoker zone
Volcanic spires thatspew superheated toxic chemicals deep in the Indian Ocean are home to some of the earth's strangest creatures. Steve Farrar reports. A swarm of ghostlike shrimps billowed out of...
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How to survive the high life
Altitude sickness is caused by an increase in capillary blood pressure in susceptible individuals, a study has revealed. The research by Marco Maggiorini and colleagues at Zurich University,...
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Wild grass is a threat to birds
In the 1930s, planting the hardy grass Spartina around Northern Ireland's coastline was seen as an ingenious way to protect the shore against erosion. But now scientists at the University of Ulster...