Employers slate AUT for missing crucial pay talks
Key negotiators for the Association of University Teachers missed the crucial talks on this year's landmark pay offer because they were not prepared to talk through the night as agreed, employers...
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Witch-hunt fears follow v-c sacking
Iraq's new higher education minister has sacked the vice-chancellor of the University of Baghdad, triggering fears of increased central control and Islamist influence. US troops dispersed protesters...
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Gorillas melt into the mist
A mysterious subspecies of gorilla has been dispatched back into the mists of legend by a coil of DNA. After a century of speculation, it seems that Gorilla gorilla uellensis never existed. Genetic...
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Online 'blacklists' of anti-US faculty win in Washington
Websites that monitor university faculty for evidence of alleged bias against the US and Israel have made inroads in government despite their detractors labelling them little more than blacklists...
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Rich to be made to pay for poor
The prestigious Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) plans to abolish fees for students from poor families and to quadruple them for the wealthiest in the cause of equal opportunity. The move...
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Italian rectors call for £7bn injection
Italy's university system will collapse unless it receives investment of €10 billion (£7 billion) over the next few years, according to the Italian Rectors Conference. In a "state of the universities...
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Battles over reforms put Australians in dark about future funding
Australia's vice-chancellors have no idea what federal funding they will get after 2004 because of political opposition to the government's proposed changes in higher education funding and its...
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Offer of job was vetoed at top
A search for a new candidate to fill a prestigious chair at a Canadian university is expected to begin in the new year, some three years after a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology academic...
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Staff ousted over union's strike threat
The University of Zimbabwe has suspended three leaders of the local Association of University Teachers, banning the lecturers from campus in a clampdown on dissent over salaries by strike-threatening...
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Proposed Council Decision on the renewal of the scientific and technological cooperation agreement with the USA (link)
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the conclusion of an Agreement aimed at renewing the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European...
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Conference - THE EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE 2020: A vision for University-based Research and Innovation, 28-28 April 2004, Liège Convention Centre, Belgium
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 Senior scientists, university heads, industrialists, policy makers and representatives from civil society at large, will gather in Liège, Belgium, in April 2004. They will chart...
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The precautionary principle: a rational response to complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 Precautionary principle expert Professor Ortwin Renn told participants in a lunch debate on 1 October that policy makers and scientists should use one of five risk management...
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EU project finds small is beautiful – and efficient – in the air
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 In addition to a lack of standardisation, one of the main obstacles to the integration of miniaturised electronic components in the aeronautics field is the difficulty of...
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French research budget to rise by 3.9 per cent in 2004
Brussels, 02 Oct 2003 The French ministry responsible for research and technology has announced a series of measures to boost research and development in France. The measures include an increase in...
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Lethal mix of Armalite and the ballot box
Armed Struggle - Sinn Féin - A Secret History of the IRA