Rio de Janeiro
A study of a national cross-section of more than 22,000 Brazilian medical graduates carried out by the national inter-institutional commission for the evaluation of medical teaching revealed that the...
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Durban
A disciplinary inquiry into accusations of insubordination and incompetence against Caroline White, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Natal, Durban, is to reconvene on Monday...
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Italians embrace credits system
Italian universities are pioneering the so-called European system of degree courses, consisting of a three-year degree followed by a two-year specialisation degree, as laid down in the 1998 Sorbonne...
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Serbia returns to the fold
The post-Milosevic administration at the University of Belgrade has called for the reinstatement of all teaching staff who lost their jobs under the 1998 university law introduced to eliminate or...
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Violence forces Basque academic to flee
A second academic under pressure from violent Basque nationalists linked to Eta has left his job in Spain. Jose Mar!a Portillo, lecturer in contemporary history at the University of the Basque...
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Reding calls for funding
Transatlantic agreements that have led to 3,000 European students benefiting from exchange programmes with universities and colleges in the United States and Canada are underfunded, the European...
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Rangers restore the peace
After 11 years of armed paramilitary presence on the campus of the University of Karachi, a relative peace reigns. But there is still little democracy - student unions were banned in 1984. "...
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Maths suffers falling numbers
ߣߣÊÓƵn universities face a critical shortage of mathematicians. In the past five years, more than 25 per cent of the academics in maths departments have quit, and few, if any, new appointments...
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Arap Moi sets up private college
A year before he is due to retire from active politics, Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi has opened a private university on his 400-acre farm in Nakuru, 200km from Nairobi. Kabarak University was...
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Vatican Commission attacks 'Hitler's pope'
An international commission of historians set up by the Vatican in an attempt to clear Pope Pius XII of charges of maintaining a silence during the Holocaust has instead published a report highly...
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Dark elements of US gold rush
US science is breaking new ground and reaping huge profits. But there is bad news with the good, says John Stackhouse. Harvey Cohen does not have to look far to see science's new golden age. From...
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Green roots of the Incas
The Incas were a race of eco-warriors who built their empire on solid environmental foundations, according to new research. Many of the great civilisations, such as the Roman and Mayan, ultimately...
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Human risk in cattle practice
The use of an antibiotic to treat cattle is accelerating the spread of resistant strains of human stomach bugs, according to a new risk assessment. Les Crawford and colleagues at the Georgetown...
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Virus gives cancer hope
The prospect of developing a virus that selectively kills cancer cells sounds too good to be true. But a virus that can do just this, at least in the test tube, already exists. The question of...
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Cutting edge: Raymond Spier
Ethics and the teaching of responsibility in research are under the microscope. When trust goes out the window accountability comes in through the door - which means that researchers and their...