Political boundaries are as old as the Bronze Age
It is a political divide that three millennia of Britain's turbulent history has failed to erase. Archaeologists have found evidence that the parish boundary line between the villages of Ashton...
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DTI to reward cooperation
Universities in which top researchers work alongside other world-class academics could reap rewards under plans being developed by the Department of Trade and Industry. John Taylor, director general...
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Funding boost for Socrates 2
European higher education may win a "substantial" funding boost, following an agreement to more than double the budget for the giant Socrates programme. The seven-year second phase of Socrates,...
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Lost cause: Student protests at Middlesex University
(Photograph) - Lost cause: Student protests at Middlesex University last week failed to stop a decision to close the school of engineering systems next July. But the academic board agreed the...
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Finns tighten control
Finland is tightening the standards of mushrooming professional postgraduate courses. There are up to 500 specialist university and polytechnic programmes with nearly 150,000 students, but until now...
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Extremist threat by razor mail
BOSTON An extremist animal-rights group has claimed responsiblity for mailing letters booby-trapped with razor blades to more than 80 United States scientists. It has threatened that the violence...
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Europeans run risk of copyright tug of war
BUDAPEST Universities in Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Baltic states and other countries are fast developing sophisticated internet-based learning packages that could reap significant...
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Colleges told shape of things to come
The shape of further education in the next century was outlined in a national implementation plan released by the Further Education Funding Council this week. Networking Lifelong Learning: Making It...
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Software companies move in on HE market
Business software vendors such as Oracle and SAP are showing an increasingly serious interest in the higher education market. Besides financial and human resources packages, they are now offering...
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Croft's original
(Photograph) - Croft's original: Staffordshire University has teamed up with games industry professionals to develop a degree course that will produce the next century's creators of interactive games...
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Research fillip
Researchers and students in UK universities now have access to one of the most powerful research tools on the internet. The Web of Science, produced by the Institute for Scientific Information, is...
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Surf's up in Cornwall
Cornwall College is the first further education college in the UK to become a free internet service provider. Its initial service, Cornwall-County Online, is aimed primarily at local businesses, to...
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Brum gets skills boost
Matthew Boulton College has won Pounds 648,000 as part of a pioneering government education project to establish centres of IT and high technology excellence countrywide. The project aims to boost IT...
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Lifelong learning in site
Online academic services provider Ingenta is launching a lifelong learning portal, the Action Learning Institute (ALI), with the International Management Centres Association. It will offer access to...
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Chile wins prize for art
A website designed by students and academics at the University of Chile has been awarded a Unesco prize of $5,000 for the public access it gives to art. Devoted to the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro,...