Female students sought for eggs
INFERTILE North American couples are turning to the classified advertising in student newspapers to find ovarian eggs from young women willing to risk their health for money. One New York University...
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Swedish regions rise in status
SWEDEN's government is strengthening small and medium-sized university colleges to reduce regional differences in education levels and to stimulate regional growth. It has just approved the...
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Pro-democracy activists split on ethnic lines
UNIVERSITIES in southwest Nigeria voluntarily closed for a week mourning the death of Moshood Abiola, detained winner of the 1993 presidential election. Security forces maintained extra vigilance on...
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Three-month strike ends
A strike by professors at more than 30 federal universities in Brazil has been called off after 104 days with a compromise regarded by union leaders as a turning point in the struggle for more...
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Early lecture in the stalls
ROME's overcrowded La Sapienza University, the largest in Europe with more than 175,000 students, is negotiating to use city cinemas as morning lecture halls. University leaders are discussing the...
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Serbs appoint new Kosovo university chief
THE SERBIAN government has appointed a new vice-chancellor of the University in Pristina, capital of the strife-torn Kosovo region. After Serbia abolished the autonomy of Pristina University, along...
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Brits plea for house facelift
THE British House in the international university city on the edge of Paris is in serious disrepair and needs urgent renovation, but no donor is forthcoming. Other national houses in the city are...
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Hanover heads the vets PhD vanguard
A VETS' college in Northrhine-Westfalia is the first German university to introduce an international PhD that will be more compatible with foreign qualifications. Tieraerztliche Hochschule in Hanover...
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Outlets for creative thinking
"FREEWAY flyers" sounds romantic. It conjures up open roads, broad horizons, travelling to freedom. But Elaine Showalter is talking about something less appealing (page 14). In the United States only...
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Building bloc for arts and humanities
THE establishment of the Arts and Humanities Research Board opens a new era in research for a large and diverse body of academic disciplines. For many years scholars have lamented the absence of a...
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Gentlemen's club in need of reform
IT IS one year since the Dearing committee on the future of higher education reported. In assessing what it achieved it is worth recalling why it was set up. In 1995, the Conservative government...
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More than a whiff of corruption
I WAS highly relieved by Domenico Pacitti's proof that the Mafia mentality is in the Italian system rather than in the blood ("Bolognese flavoured corruption", THES, July 10). I was sure to have been...
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Fellowships
Cardiff University Honorary fellowships: Claude Allegre, French minister of education, research and technology; David Cooksey, chair of the university's Challenge Fund Steering Group; Ieuan Evans,...
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More than a whiff of corruption
Domenico Pacitti's experience is emblematic of the disease that afflicts Italian universities. Merit has no place in a feudal patriarchy poorly disguised as a modern liberal democracy. Education...
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More than a whiff of corruption
DO THE the Italian university authorities really think that by decentralising the selection procedure (concorsi) for academic posts in their country the entire system's endemic nepotism will be "...