Of babies and bathwater
Europe's rush to mass education has not been matched with money or clear policies, Sheldon Rothblatt writes. I recently asked some European colleagues, all in the social sciences and mostly...
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World watch
Toronto Universities in Ontario are facing problems in recruiting enough academics to accommodate a double cohort of high-school graduates in 2003-04 despite an injection of C$660 million (£300...
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Eyewitness: Galapagos giant tortoise kidnap
A dramatic confrontation between conservationists and fishing interests in one of the world's most sensitive environments ended last month. The Ecuadorean government effectively traded an increased...
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Oz turns its back on cyber institute
A former Hawaii-based distance education provider that claimed to be ߣߣÊÓƵ's third private university has failed a federal education department assessment. Greenwich University was established on...
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Campus aides in union victory
After a 30-year battle, graduate students who work as teaching assistants at private American universities have won the right to unionise. Their win has vast ramifications for higher education. The...
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Police close in on alleged $2m loan fraud
A man arrested by Canadian police in connection with an alleged C$2 million (£893,000) student loan fraud is to appear in court later this month. More arrests are expected in connection with the...
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Legacy of racist South mars Georgia's civil rights birthday
This month marks the anniversary of a civil rights milestone at the University of Georgia. Forty years ago, a student slipped into the administration building of a United States university to...
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Fear for Italy's tenure reform
Rectors fear that much-needed university reform legislation before the Italian parliament will fall victim to May's general elections. In particular, rectors are keen to see changes to academic...
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Parents lobby for return of students
Greece's education ministry has refused to relocate Greek students studying at universities in the former Yugoslav republic who fear they are in danger from depleted uranium shells. Anxious parents...
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Azerbaijani rectors lead political purge
Azerbaijani universities are using their new autonomous status to carry out a political purge of lecturers, according to the Yeni Musavat Azeri newspaper, regarded as the organ of the opposition...
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Partners in Cupid target industry
Cupid, a new Scottish university consortium, is hoping to spark a romance with industry that could make the United Kingdom a world leader in display technology. Visual displays on machines are...
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Life story inside a cell
Debate on cloning is confusing the issue of using embryonic stem cells, says Peter Andrews. Some 3,000 years ago, a scribe in the Chaldean city of Nineveh wrote on a clay tablet: "When a woman gives...
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Lasers power mini machines
Scientists have built a laser-driven rotor no bigger than a pollen grain that could help power the micromachines of the future. One minute optical windmill, fashioned from resin, has been rotated by...
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Deep-freeze dangers of IVF
The freezing and thawing of human embryos can double or even triple the number of chromosomes in living cells, with potentially serious consequences for unborn offspring. The process was observed in...
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All quiet on the quantum front
Heard the one about the lab with a black hole? Caroline Davis reports on the latest in wave physics. Nothing can escape a black hole. Its gravitational pull is so strong that all matter and energy,...