Brian Fender
'His time at the Institut Laue-Langevin not only made him a keen francophile, it convinced him of the importance of European contacts for British institutions' This is the fourth year that Sir Brian...
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Is energy minister John Battle mad? Anarchic comedian Mark Thomas thinks so, and is trying to have the minister sectioned under the Mental Health Act to ensure public safety. Mr Thomas's latest stunt...
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Glittering prizes
John Maynard Smith, emeritus professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Sussex, has been awarded the Crafoord Prize by the Swedish Academy of Sciences, in particular for his work on game...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. It's sweaty in the studio here at City University. My students are making jingles for their news service on Sound Radio, a community station in Hackney. The backing track on the jingle...
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Eye witness
Predictable questions over the conduct of Nigeria's first democratic presidential elections since 1993 cloud the victory of retired general Olusegun Obasanjo, who uniquely relinquished power to an...
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Polymath boys from Brazil
Cardoso's cabinet is full of ministers with one foot in business and another in academia. Robert Ward reports. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, re-elected president of Brazil last year, is once again...
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Beijing
Ten thousand Chinese research scientists and professors are to receive a threefold pay rise in a bid to stem the brain drain. The pay increase, which averages 100,000 yuan (Pounds 7,500) a year, is...
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Chieti
Giovanni Perrucci, an anthropologist at the University of Chieti in Abruzzo, Italy, claims to have discovered the oldest living human - a Kenyan woman of the Kikuyu tribe who is thought to be between...
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Kuala Lumpur
With an initial capital of M$150,000 (Pounds 23,800) the new Malaysian-Siamese Association has set up a foundation to increase the number of Thai-Malaysians in tertiary education and help improve...
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Nairobi
The British High Commission in Nairobi has promised to hasten processing of visas and other travel documents for Kenyan students interested in entering British universities and colleges. Jeffrey...
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Paris
France is reported to have promised to help Niger students in several African states who are owed several months' bursary by their government. President Jacques Chirac is said to have made the pledge...
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Tongue-tie in Cluj
Romania's opposition National Unity Party is still campaigning against the establishment of a Hungarian university in Transylvania, an area with a big ethnic-Hungarian population assigned to Romania...
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Serb refusniks take 'free' route
One telephone line with a fax, two computers, a photocopier, a couple of chairs - these are all the facilities students of the new parallel university in Serbia have at their disposal. A three-...
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Albanian control of faculties restored
As the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet, France, dragged on, Serbian authorities last month handed back three more faculties - law, economics and arts - of the University of Pristina to Albanian-...
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Penny-a-term university fights fees
Students from the world's largest university, the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), come from more prosperous sections of society, a survey has shown. Salvador Malo Alvarez, secretary...