Gap-year takers gain confidence
THES reporters on the British Psychological Society's annual conference held in Brighton this week IRISH teenagers who take a year out of studies are more self-confident when they return to the...
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FBI on computer case
The FBI has been assisting researchers from Glasgow Caledonian University with their inquiries into computer crime. John Biggam and Alan Hogarth of GCU's department of computer studies interviewed...
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By Jupiter, it's a hit
A new style of music has unexpectedly emerged from Dundee University computer research. A CD album of music from the television show Jupiter Moon has been released, featuring electronic speech...
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Research in hot water
Southampton University researchers have just returned from the Galapagos Islands having carried out an intensive diving expedition to study the effects of El Ni$o, the periodic change in ocean...
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Army eyes ban on Islamic dress
The ban on Islamic religious dress for students looks set to become a battle of wills between the army and prime minister Mesut Yilmaz with universities trapped in the middle. The country's...
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Students appeal against jail sentences for taking part in protests against higher fees
Police battled with hundreds of demonstrators in Istanbul last week as a court heard appeals by eight students against jail sentences of up to 18 years for their part in protests against higher fees...
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Building industry beefs about student prejudice
BUILDER's bum is not the only damaging stereotype of the construction industry. A survey of construction students in Leeds has uncovered entrenched prejudice that could be an obstacle to harmonious...
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Rag student severed victim's head
Ragging restraints at Indian universities are likely after a southern court sentenced a former medical student to life imprisonment for beheading a fresher. The court heard that the first-year...
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'Western' Jews cream off top places at universities
The number of doctoral students of Ashkenazi (European and American) origin at Israeli universities is four times higher than the number of students of Sephardi (African and Asian) origin. This is...
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Colleges back military gays' fight for rights
Eleven United States higher education organisations have thrown their weight behind a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the military's policy of banning openly gay servicemen and women. The 4,380...
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Local pay deals out of kilter
After 18 months of strikes, bans and protest marches, ߣߣÊÓƵ's universities have at last concluded their first round of grand-scale pay bargaining. Academics and general staff have gained an...
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Critic puts fee money where mouth is
Philip Greenspun has complained publicly about the cost of tuition almost since the day he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982, writes Jon Marcus. Now an Internet...
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Students armed early for jobs fray
ONTARIO has instructed universities and colleges to arm students with the facts about the job prospects of each course. The move is in response to high unemployment and student default on government...
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Irish students turning backs on study in the UK
The number of Irish students seeking university places in the United Kingdom this year has dropped sharply, partly because of the introduction of tuition fees from September. Last year, 11,213...
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La Sapienza faces belt-tightening
La Sapienza in Rome, Europe's largest university, is in dire financial straits and will have to cut spending drastically if it cannot get special funding from the state. Giuseppe D'Ascenzo, who was...