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Yannick d'Escatha, head of energy at French electricity company EDF and former chairman of CEA, the Atomic Energy Agency, has been appointed chairman and managing director of CNES, the French space...
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Findings: Surer shot for depression
One-third of patients suffering from depression do not respond to antidepressants, and of those who do, only about half recover completely. Now, researchers think they are beginning to understand why...
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Australian firm is first to buy a Chinese university
An Australian information technology company has become the first foreign investor to buy a university in China and incorporate the institution into its operations. Perth-based Amnet Limited bought...
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Fee hikes will put off poor, says US report
Many US universities are vastly increasing their tuition fees, threatening to make higher education too costly for huge numbers of Americans, according to an independent study. A combination of...
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Vintage students pop in for 22nd year
A Bavarian university has taken two of its undergraduates to court for taking the concept of lifelong learning too literally. When the law students, a married couple, tried to enrol for their 43rd...
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Eta suspect given post as lecturer
A remand prisoner accused of being a financial mastermind for the Basque separatist group Eta, has been appointed as an applied economics lecturer at Spain's University of the Basque Country. Peace...
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Sheffield on track for a walk with dinosaurs
Scientists are exploring a new frontier of palaeontology, dinosaur footprints, with the help of a device that simulates in the lab tracks found on the Yorkshire coast near Whitby. Through analysis of...
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Colleges pushed to raise fees
Further education college heads have warned that funding proposals will force them to increase fees for adult students by 10 per cent next academic year. An Association of Colleges analysis of the...
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Trouble brewing over part-timers
The indiscriminate use of part-time, fixed-term and hourly paid teachers by some university departments is storing up legal and financial trouble, a conference of linguists and human resource...
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Former v-c advocates superstore approach
Universities should be more like supermarkets and offer students satisfaction or their money back, according to Sir Geoffrey Holland, former vice-chancellor of Exeter University and a past permanent...
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Project still set for space
Scientists whose work was due to be tested on the International Space Station say they are confident that their experiment will go ahead despite the loss of the space shuttle Columbia . Marco Narici...
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Medical schools deny anti-Muslim admissions policy
Medical schools denied this week that they sought to exclude Muslim students because of their refusal to undertake certain procedures, such as abortion. Newspapers had earlier reported that Muslim...
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Copenhagen
Bj?rn Lomborg, director of Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute, has decided to appeal against a ruling that he was "in clear breach of the norms for good scientific practice" in his book The...
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Beijing
Only 150,000 of the 580,000 Chinese students who studied abroad between 1978 and 2002 have returned home. But the number who returned last year was 47 per cent up on 2001, according to the ministry...
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Nantes
About 1,200 distance-learning students have enrolled for the 29 courses offered by the virtual university of the Pays de la Loire. The regional authority has invested €1.5 million (?1 million) in the...