Brewers raise a glass to teen project
A team of Austrian teenagers has invented an automatic beer-tap system guaranteed to pull the perfect pint. The project was the brainchild of student Thomas Schick, 17, who invented it after visiting...
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China logs on to online universities
The 46 Chinese universities approved by the government to run internet courses have enrolled about 400,000 students in the past year. The ministry of education said that by the end of the five-year...
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MBA tables 'unfair to Europe'
MBA league tables published by financial journals are based on flawed methodologies and unfairly show European business schools to be less competitive than those in the United States, according to...
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Agony aunt
Q : How can a tutor quell students' fears about this war on terrorism? A : Such fears are a comprehensible response to a very real threat, so I am not sure that "quelling" them is possible or...
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Words against weapons
Teaching students about tolerance and understanding is all the more difficult since the war on terrorism, writes D. J. Chandler. How much harder it has become to teach peace and tolerance on American...
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Star Turn: Andrew Hurrell
'This is your life' could well be the alternative title to a powerful lecture on international relations with particular resonance for one Oxford University postgraduate. Julia Hinde reports Andrew...
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Germany joins battle for Nobels
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. The cosmopolitan US is proving a hard act for Germany to follow, Jennie Brookman writes. The German scientific community was...
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More migratory Canadians are flying back home
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. Canada cannot offer US resources, but it is fighting back. There's a drinking game in the bars of Los Angeles called Dead,...
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Reaching for stars
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. Awards that top up salaries are bringing talent back to the UK. Julia Hinde reports. When Roger Pedersen, a prominent American...
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SA calls on the skills of expats overseas
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. South African academics go abroad for better pay, but their expertise is being used back home via a new network. Unable to...
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Research findings
PHAROAHS AND THE FLEA The true curse of the pharaohs has been identified among remains left by Tutankhamun's tomb workers and guards - fleas. The excavation of a 3,300-year-old village in the...
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E-learning's big questions remain
Rapidly maturing online learning has delivered effective and user sensitive environments, an audience of academics, journalists and students at the Royal Institution heard last Thursday. Most...
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Medical dressing wins Scots grants
A husband-and-wife research team at Dundee University, named Scotland's innovators of 2000, are developing a treatment that could help diabetics avoid foot amputations. Seth and Ana Schor of Dundee's...
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Welsh to incubate innovation
The Welsh Development Agency has unveiled plans to create a £50 million network of up to 20 incubator complexes linking academic research to business operations throughout Wales. The first six...
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Glittering prizes
Rosemary Barberet , lecturer in criminal justice at the University of Leicester, has been elected chair of the international division of the American Society of Criminology . The University of Luton...