Rangoon
Classes for all students at Burma's 16 universities resumed this week for the first time since the military junta suspended them in 1996.
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Cotonou
A protest by students from the National University of Benin over a 60 per cent hike in the price of petroleum products was joined by taxi drivers and market women. Before they could get to the...
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Climate forecasters gain satellite sites
The Natural Environment Research Council is investing Pounds 5 million over five years in two British satellite centres to allow scientists to forecast extremes of environmental change. The Centre...
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Lambeth youngsters trailing behind
Underachievement is "rife" among 16 to 19-year-olds in Lambeth. This is the conclusion of an Ofsted area inspection report published this week. Education minister Baroness Blackstone said the report...
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Education research centre gets Pounds 2m fund
The government is to fund a Centre for Evidence Informed Policy and Practice, based at the Institute of Education, London. Ann Oakley, director of the institute's Social Science Research Unit, will...
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Jodrell observatory safe, says Sainsbury
The future of Jodrell Bank, the radio astronomy observatory, is secure, according to science minister Lord Sainsbury. He insisted that there were no plans to close it as part of cost-cutting measures...
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Edinburgh prepares for autumn's final crop
Edinburgh University is set to drop its undergraduate courses in agriculture after the autumn intake. The move will leave Aberdeen University as the only Scottish east coast institution offering...
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For better results, have faith in Christ's
Christ's College, Cambridge, has produced the best exam results of all Cambridge University colleges over the past two decades, according to a study by Peter Tompkins, who compiles the annual...
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SOS call from Russia: save our spuds
Scientists from New York's Cornell University and Poland's Mlochow Research Centre are racing to rescue a unique Russian collection of potatoes that survived the siege of Leningrad but are falling...
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UK counts on paltry R&D force
Less than 1 per cent of the UK workforce worked in research and development in 1997, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Although Finland leads the way with 1.6...
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A three-pronged plan to take UK science and innovation to market
The white paper on science and innovation contains three main strands: enhancing the science base, innovation and knowledge transfer, and the public confidence in science. Enhancing the science base...
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Degree checklist pleases students
Students will soon have a checklist of everything they can expect to learn from a university course. But while student leaders have welcomed the move to make universities draw up detailed "programme...
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Lib-Dem fails to draw Blackstone on top-up fees policy
Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone this week failed to rule out the introduction of top-up fees during the next parliament. During a session of the Commons' select committee on education,...
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Oxford cuts to balance books
Oxford University has had to make cuts of Pounds 9 million this year to offset costs caused in part by the research assessment exercise. In preparation for next year's exercise, the university had...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has officially launched the country's fifth private university. University Tenaga Nasional was formally invited to upgrade to university status in 1997.