Copenhagen
Two professors of politics, Ole Waever of Copenhagen University and Nikolaj Petersen of Aarhus University, have urged the government to launch an inquiry into the basis for the Iraq war and Denmark's...
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Dakar
At least e100,000 has been earmarked by the Senegal-based Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie for higher education and scientific research in Africa.
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Leaer: Find a balance in foreign equation
This week's spate of reports on international issues in higher education is not only timely, but also provides a nicely balanced starting point for a debate that is likely to become increasingly...
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Let's refocus efforts on building brighter future
A partnership between state, society and universities is key to the development of South Africa, writes Derrick Swartz. On Monday, South Africa celebrates ten years of freedom - and the role of the...
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Gary Day
...Quite a lot, actually. For a start we still don't know if Becks was unfaithful' Scientists can easily prove their value to society, but humanities tutors have a tougher job to justify their...
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The diary
Sick of the RAE The Association of University Teachers has produced a crib sheet on a disease of the brain sweeping the nation's universities. Edited highlights are reproduced here. RAE disease -...
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My revolting past
Sir Graeme Davies recalls how his remote engineering faculty sparked a creative approach to entertainment. Sir Graeme Davies recently rediscovered a picture of the 1958 Auckland University students...
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Why I... believe academics should take a lead in the debate on multiculturalism
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, earlier this month called for the abandonment of 40 years of multicultural policies in Britain. In this he is not alone. An all-party...
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Let's make it personal
The Sims computer game offers a blueprint for higher education, argues Charles Leadbeater. Personalisation could reshape public services as fundamentally as privatisation did in the 1980s....
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It's early days for e-volution
E-supported learning is gaining ground but much more research is required, argues Linda Challis With hindsight it seems obvious that predictions, made only a few years ago, that the e-revolution...
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Next week
Wireless world The pros and cons of the cable-free university investigated in our special supplement. Also East meets West What will European Union expansion mean for East European studies? Is the...
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Today's news
Decline and fall for the Oxford ball After hundreds of years of leaping off bridges, baring their buttocks and showering each other with bubbly to celebrate the end of finals, the party is over for...
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Agenda of the Research Working Party and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party, 28 April (link)
Brussels, 22 Apr 2004 Full text of Document 1584/04 RESEARCH WORKING PARTY 1. Second Implementation Report on "A Mobility Strategy for the European Research Area" - Presentation by the Commission Doc...
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Human genetic testing: what implications? - Conference 6/7 May, Brussels
Brussels, 22 Apr 2004 WHO? Philippe Busquin, European Commissioner for Research In collaboration with Eryl McNally, Member of the European Parliament (EP) and Vice President of the EP "Scientific and...
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European coalition against animal testing demonstrates against REACH proposals
Brussels, 22 Apr 2004 The beginning of World Week for Laboratory Animals was marked on 20 April by renewed attempts by the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) to put pressure on both...