PM takes over as popular education minister quits
Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has temporarily taken over the education ministry after its minister, Yossi Sarid, resigned despite a direct appeal from student leaders for him to remain in the...
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Students plead for less maths
French economics students have launched an internet petition protesting that their courses are too mathematical, theoretical and divorced from reality, and demanding "a pluralistic approach" to the...
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British push to woo Cypriots
British universities and colleges have stepped up their efforts to recruit Greek Cypriot students. Next month, for the second summer running, there will be a mission to recruit post A-level students...
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Cyanide expert jailed for meeting
A leading Turkish academic with a 25-year record in cyanide research has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for speaking about risks associated with gold mining. Huseyin Yildirim, of the Ege...
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Bob Dylan fan's rocky road to success
A generation after the internal emergency declared by Indira Gandhi in an attempt to crush militant students, it seems that the step from political oppression to political stardom is a small one....
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Can fee gift halt muscle drain?
Canadian universities will offer full-tuition athletics scholarships in a move that shifts them closer to their US neighbours. The Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union has found a compromise over...
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Mugabe spin doctor quizzed over leave
South Africa's University of the Wi****ersrand has given Jonathan Moyo, the controversial election campaign manager for Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's ruling party, until today to explain a...
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Spain faces IT skills headache
Barcelona British entrepreneur Paul Metcalf is finding it hard to recruit the technical staff he needs for NonStopYacht.com, the company he is setting up in Barcelona. Spanish employers share his...
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Minister sued for reforms barter
ߣߣÊÓƵn education minister David Kemp is being sued over claims that he has contravened the government's Workplace Relations Act by trying to coerce universities into adopting anti-union policies...
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Sweden leads world into new age of learning
Uppsala University, founded in 1477, might be Sweden's oldest, but its new learning lab means it is looking towards the future. The facility is part of the Swedish Learning Lab (SLL), a collaborative...
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Pounds 2 million given for scholarships
Canadian company Nortel Networks is to spend Pounds 2 million on university scholarships and will create 2,000 high-technology jobs in Europe this year, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The company's aim is to...
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Online site aids search for grads
Employers throughout Ireland can now headhunt graduates online through a new website. Careers advisers at Northern Ireland's two universities believe the site will help combat the province's skills...
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Surrey project wins Nasa cash
A technology spin-off from the University of Surrey has won a contract from American space agency Nasa to research the development of a worldwide communications standard based on internet protocols (...
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Name game
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is meeting in Japan next Friday to decide on the process for creating new generic top-level domains. Icann, which is in charge of...
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Oxford bagged
A Queensland inventor who changed his name by deed poll to Oxford University in an attempt to prove he has the right to keep the domain name www.oxford-university.com has lost his case. A World...