Zapatero backs stem-cell work
Spanish stem-cell research is likely to get more encouragement from the incoming socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, following the confused and sometimes hostile stance adopted by...
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Conviction fuels fears for academic freedom
The conviction of a Moscow arms control researcher for high treason has raised fears of renewed Soviet-style restrictions on academic freedom and foreign links. Igor Sutyagin of Moscow's USA-Canada...
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Paris
Fran?ois Fillon, France's new minister for education and research, has given in to researchers' demands to restore axed jobs. Last week he announced the creation of 1,550 tenured posts between now...
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Beijing
Chinese students are to be issued with handbooks to help them cope with psychological problems as part of a drive to tackle a growing problem of mental illness in young people.
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Brno
A Scottish prince and a Czech university deputy rector are among the members of the Czech Republic's Association of the Unaffiliated, the newest political party to take part in this year's European...
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Zagreb
Political leaders from Italy and Croatia have discussed plans to set up an Istrian University in the heartland of Croatia's ethnic Italian minority.
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Monrovia
Security agents clashed with students and lecturers on the streets of the Liberian capital during protests over nonpayment of bursaries and scholarships and months of salary arrears. United Nations...
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St Gallen
A one-year English-language medium MBA programme is to be launched at St Gallen University in the German-speaking zone of Switzerland in January 2005.
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Just a couple of hurdles before the final furlong
Margaret Sharp anticipates an easy ride for the higher education bill in the Lords - but Offa remains a sticking point With Easter past, the higher education bill comes to the Lords for its second...
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Don's diary: Museum and mutoscopes but no muggings
Sunday I'm off to S?o Paolo, where I'm going to set up my part of Cyclic Eye, a four-artist show mixing electronics with early 20th-century technologies such as stereoscopy, zoetropes and, in my case...
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Austin's powers of oration
Austin Mitchell, MP for Great Grimsby, is a former politics lecturer who has been described by journalists as a "brilliant, witty but erratic small-screen Yorkshire Don Quixote and incurable...
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They're all heart
The crowd at the Transparent Transplants conference, held at London's Science Museum last week, was impressed by the British Heart Foundation's altruism - but only briefly. Michael Wilks, chairman of...
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Watchamacallit University?
Alexander McCall Smith, professor of medical law at Edinburgh University and author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels, is writing a serial in The Scotsman about life in Edinburgh. His...
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Top marks for ingenuity
The rector of Florence University has ordered an investigation into an exam that was "passed" by about 20 students who never took it. It is alleged that they were awaiting an oral exam in dynamic...
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Why I believe American studies is vital in the new world order
The 2004 annual conference of the British Association for American Studies, in Manchester, marks the run-up to the association's 50th anniversary. In the aftermath of the second world war the US was...