Brussels
A health insurance card guaranteeing medical treatment for European Union citizens studying at universities in other member states will be issued by January 2006. The card will entitle students to...
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Ferrara
A criminal court in northern Italy has found Francesco Conconi, rector of Ferrara University, responsible for giving performance-enhancing drugs to athletes. But it acquitted him under a statute of...
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Athens
Greece has its first female secretary of state for education after the conservative New Democracy Party's victory in last month's general elections. Marietta Giannakou, 53, a psychiatrist, will be...
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Moscow
Andrei Fursenko, Russia's new minister of education and science, is tipped to head a super-ministry combining functions of ministries of education, science and professional training.
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Washington DC
An internet-based information database is being developed by an international consortium to help universities integrate sustainability concerns into their curricula and management. The project is...
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Corporate sharks may be psychos
An authority on psychopathic behaviour has turned his attention to corporate types who share personality traits with his criminal subjects. Robert Hare, renowned in law enforcement circles for...
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Database plan to get rid of bogus degrees
Plans for an international database that will help to eliminate attempts to claim a "degree" from a mythical university are at an advanced stage. The database will enable people to check a particular...
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Australian research hits new heights
Australian academics have doubled their output of research papers published in refereed journals over the past 20 years to more than 20,000 a year. The average number of citations per paper has also...
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Bavaria steps up its bid to become home of Harvard-style elite universities
Bavaria has boosted its bid to become Germany's "elite" university state after Edmund Stoiber, the regional prime minister, unveiled a set of courses to rival Harvard University. Ten elite courses...
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Syria bans Turks from its private schools
Syria has banned Turkish students who want to study religion from its private schools as part of a crackdown on radical Islamic groups in the aftermath of last November's al-Qaida suicide attacks in...
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Student activism falls after terror attacks
The numbers of young women wearing headscarves, young men sporting beards and people selling religious tracts on Morocco's university campuses are higher than ten years ago. But there are signs that...
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Change of rule pleases rectors
Spanish universities face sweeping changes after voters brought the Socialist Party to power in a surprise victory after the Madrid bombing. The socialists have promised to increase funding and to...
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Quick fix will not rescue UK plc from RAE robbers
Lambert's proposal for a new stream of funding for business-relevant research is vital, argues Alan Reed. When the government publishes its ten-year investment framework for science and innovation...
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Gary Day
'Who can communicate in a language that's the love child of post-structuralism and the Institute for Learning and Teaching? Lots of people, apparently' I'd do anything to avoid work, except go to...
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Sykes holds on for share of cash
The annual earnings received by Sir Richard Sykes as rector of Imperial College London - some ?250,000 last year, placing him second in the league table of vice-chancellors' pay - do not form the...