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Murder charges have been dropped after more than two years against Nancy Morrison, a professor of medicine at Dalhousie University and a respirologist at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre...
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Ruka calls for return to normality
Albanian education and science minister Ethem Ruka says a democratic mentality, Europeanisation and the reinstatement of plain normality are key to the urgent improvement of his country's university...
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Grandes ecoles rise to global challenge
Top French business schools linked to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry are adapting to global economic trends with the establishment of two international training centres. The schools...
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German heretic remains in a chair
Radical German theologian Gerd Ludemann, who sparked a controversy by renouncing Christianity, is to keep his professorial chair at the theology department at Gottingen University. But the title of...
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In other words...
We need to add a sense of proportion missing from your report on languages at the University of Huddersfield ("Huddersfield silences modern languages", THES, December 11). The three programmes to...
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Contracts to motivate universities
The leaders of Danish universities will have to prove that they are giving value for money if research minister Jan Tr?jborg's plans to introduce modern leadership principles are realised. Future...
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'Bone man' loses his job
British-born Ron Clarke, whose recent unearthing of a near complete ape-man skeleton is considered one of Africa's most important palaeoanthropological breakthroughs, has lost his job at the...
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Campuses riven by killings
Examination calendars in Nigeria's 34 state and federal-owned universities have become unpredictable since military rule truncated the second republic of Nigeria in December, 1983. Universities have...
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Student dies of thirst in vending tragedy
Montreal An urban-legends website lists death by toppling vending machine among its more bizarre accidental fatalities, but the story was tragically real for one Canadian university student. Kevin...
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PM scraps black support scheme
On the night he won a second term of office, ߣߣÊÓƵn prime minister John Howard promised he would pursue the cause of reconciliation with the nation's indigenous people as a major priority. Almost...
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Don't sack the gardener
Over-emphasis on plant chemistry is short-sighted and is killing botanical gardens, says Ghillean Prance. Over the past ten years, I have received a steady flow of requests asking me to intervene as...
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How to attract the funders in the new year
We hope you enjoyed 1998, because 1999 may well be eerily similar. First, as the bills for Christmas come home to roost, money. 1998 was a banner year for anyone lucky and clever enough to be in a...
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Scrutinise those overseas links
Problems in management of UK universities and colleges' overseas partnerships seem to be becoming a running sore in British higher education, the latest being the just-published National Audit Office...
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Figure it out
One can have such fun with figures. You reported on the proportions of UK undergraduates from various sources who registered at Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics ("Oxford raises...
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Privatising knowledge
While it is always good news to see new funding provided for research, there is still something not quite right with the government's emphasis on collaboration with business and "the ability to turn...