Night booze buster
A United States university is to build a $9 million (Pounds 5.96 million) 24-hour spa and enclosed swimming pool as part of an effort to dissuade its students from drinking. It will also include a...
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Social fundraising motivator
A mission to include mass higher education and outreach makes the University of Massachusetts at Amherst a rather different institution from Oxford or Harvard. But its University Scholars programme...
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Sources for research funding
KRISTINEBERG MARINE RESEARCH STATION www.kmf.gu.se/index_eng.html Transnational Access to Major Research Infrastructures Kristineberg Marine Research Station (KMRS) has been selected for support by...
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Agony aunt
I am an external examiner this year for the first time. How can I gear myself up to the task? * Windy Dyrden, Professor of counselling, Goldsmiths College, London The best way is to expunge any need...
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Questions over IT stock launch
The ߣߣÊÓƵn Securities and Investment Commission is considering an investigation into possible insider trading by senior academics and council members at the University of Melbourne. The share...
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Entrepreneurial old students boost funds
Technology firms are helping to shield Canadian universities from falling government support as their entrepreneurial players become the latest category of donors targeted by university development...
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Combined e-learning for all ages
The e-college has come to south-east Scotland with a unique academic collaboration between school and further and higher education on courses in science, technology and engineering. Heriot-Watt...
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EU rift over digital text rights stifles medium
The future of European legislation to decide whether United Kingdom universities have the right freely to copy digitally stored texts is in the balance this month, with European Union member states...
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Equality target
An Argentine education ministry internet project, which aims to reach more than 11 million students at the country's universities and schools, is expected to take off in August, writes Domenico...
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Wait is over
Searching the web has become a frustrating task - slow and unreliable. xrefer.com addresses this problem with the web's first reference engine. The company aggregates and integrates well-known...
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Nothing ventured...
A sparkling idea and clear business plan could provide a quick cash injection for budding entrepreneurs at the Oxford-based Venturefest 2000 this summer. The best business plan entered for the...
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Cosmic movement
A new computer school, the first of ten planned for greater London, has been set up by Indian computer group Cosmic Software and three British entrepreneurs. The "E-horizons" school, which...
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Well woven
Helen Whitehead, a cyberspace writer in residence at Nottingham Trent University, has won funding for a project aimed at bringing together East Midlands textile workers and textile museum staff to...
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Life on Earth
Plymouth University has won a Pounds 10,000 research and development grant from the Wellcome Trust's SciArt competition for a project that will examine Earthlings' intelligence. Researchers from the...
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Wireless backing
Global network solutions company Nortel Networks has financed a new A$4 million (Pounds 1.5 million) technology centre investigating wireless internet applications based at the University of...