On the move
Dame Veronica Sutherland , deputy secretary general of the Commonwealth Secretariat, has been elected president of Lucy Cavendish College , Cambridge, from next October. She succeeds Baroness Perry...
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World Watch
Vienna An armed man walked into the vice-chancellor's office at Vienna University and shot dead his girlfriend, who worked there as a secretary, and then committed suicide. The man, an unemployed...
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World View: Russia's quest for approval
In a bid to rebuild its self-confidence, Russian academia is looking for recognition from the international community. It was towards the end of a generously resourced dinner and after many impromptu...
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Eyewitness
A saga that began with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves of Khirbet Qumran, near the Dead Sea, in 1947 has ended more than 50 years later before Israel's Supreme Court. Elisha Qimron...
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Tax on studies hits enrolment
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities appear to have experienced a dramatic fall in applications from prospective students, despite more young people becoming eligible to enter higher education. Although no...
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India invites investment from its ex-pats
India's cash-strapped higher education sector is opening up to foreign investment, but opportunities to invest will initially be restricted to Indian nationals domiciled overseas. A cabinet committee...
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From a NY park bench to Harvard
Harvard's most celebrated British student, Laura Spence, was not the only one to find the Ivy League school an unfamiliar setting when she arrived in September. Across the street from Elizabeth...
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Japanese fear evaluation plan
Japan's political crisis is unlikely to affect reform of the country's national universities. Consultations on semi-privatisation plans for the 99 national universities, which have no independent...
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Nordic plan for shared research
Universities in Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Sweden, Finland and the land Islands should collaborate more closely and create joint centres of excellence in research and...
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Unesco post is still vacant
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation still has no head of its education directorate, a position that has been vacant for more than six months. Koichiro Matsuura,...
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Czech institute wins US credit
A training ground for the new generation of Eastern European economic chiefs has become the first postgraduate school in the former Soviet bloc to gain a United States stamp of approval. Prague's...
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Libraries in digital pact
Representatives of 20 national and research university libraries in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Britain, Italy and the United States have agreed to collaborate on digitising library collections. The...
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Test bed
The Alba Centre, which houses Scotland's collaborative Institute for System Level Integration, is about to expand to include a European test technology centre. Scottish Enterprise is working in...
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Eritrea online
Plans to link the University of Asmara in Eritrea, the only African country not on the internet, were announced last week by Estifanos Afewerki of Eritrea's ministry of transport and communications....
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Under the hammer
Phillips Auctioneers is to fund two posts in Glasgow University's unique programme in decorative arts. The programme aims to boost practical, academic and curatorial skills in dealing with historic...