Dundee firm widens access and draws talent
Cash machine giant NCR is giving £90,000 over three years to fund up to 30 computing and technology bursaries at the University of Abertay Dundee. The Dundee-based NCR Financial Solutions Group...
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Tube travellers' pollutant risk
London Underground passengers are regularly exposed to high levels of airborne particulate pollutants. The first comparative study of personal exposure to PM2.5 - fine particles of soot and other...
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Naked truth about Greece
Athletes' performing naked is considered a quintessentially ancient Greek custom. Scholars agree that widespread naked athletics began between 750 and 550BC, but little is known about the origins of...
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College bid mayset ball rolling
University College Worcester may be leading a new wave of bids for full university status from higher education colleges. Encouraged by the creation of the University of Gloucestershire, and buoyed...
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Scottish inventor is hot stuff
Researchers at Paisley University have helped a local inventor develop a device aimed at combating chip pan fires, writes Olga Wojtas. Jim McConkey's revolutionary fire-proof chip pan was this week...
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Dutch subsidy 'too high'
Dutch students should pay significantly more for their higher education, according to a government economic think-tank. In a study of the role of knowledge in the Dutch economy, published last month...
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Fighting corruption top of Serb students' hitlist
Serb students have drafted a policy paper outlining their vision for the reform of post-Milosovic universities. The Desired University identifies seven areas for reform that emerged from a December...
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Finns target master plagiarists
Guidelines aimed at cutting plagiarism will be drafted in Finland during the coming spring to cover dissertations at universities and diploma work at technical universities. The move was triggered by...
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News in brief
Paris Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist and philosopher, has died aged 71. Director of studies at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), he was elected to the Collège de...
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Argentine minister vows to tackle crisis
Graciela Giannettasio, Argen-tina's new education minister, has vowed that she will draw on all her experience, workaholic energies and deep Christian faith to resolve her country's long-running...
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Canada faces funding freeze
Universities in British Columbia are awaiting details of the implications of the province's decision to freeze its education funding for three years. And in Ontario, there is speculation that the...
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Unesco to help Afghan rebuild
It was a chilly Kabul day. On the gravel outside Kabul University's dormitory for female students, a sea of empty shell casings was scattered at our feet. In front of us, the facade of the once...
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In the news: Barbara Young
The chief executive of the Environment Agency, Barbara Young, this week welcomed the watershed report into food production and farming that called for reform of the European Union's common...
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Don's Diary
Saturday I address the Graduates Association's Annual Ball referring to our most celebrated alumnus, David Livingstone. My enjoyment of the evening is slightly marred by one colleague's disclosure of...
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Beware belly-aching
Several New York restaurants are suing Columbia University after a professor sent them letters falsely complaining of food poisoning to study how businesses respond to complaints. Francis Flynn, an...