On the move
Abner Weiss, incoming rabbi of the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London, has been appointed principal of the London School of Jewish Studies. Timothy Williamson, professor of logic and metaphysics...
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Glittering prizes
The University of Edinburgh is awarding honorary degrees to: Grahame Bulfield, director and chief executive of the Roslin Institute (DSc); John Colquhoun, sports journalist and former rector of the...
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Eyewitness
After a decade of civil war, Papua New Guinea's island province of Bougainville has been granted autonomy from Port Moresby. A new interim government was sworn in last month, but there will be no...
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New York
A Columbia University student who falsely claimed extra time to finish assignments on the grounds that his brother had been killed in a car accident died last week after jumping in front of a train....
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St Petersburg
Russia's federal education ministry has reinstated Yuriy Savelev as rector of the Baltic State Technical University. He was suspended in March on the orders of federal education minister Vladimir...
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Brussels
The European Commission has approved 117 new grants made under the Jean Monnet Project, which aims to fund academic studies, centres and chairs devoted to studying the process of European integration...
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Colleges face taxing time
The introduction of a new 10 per cent goods and services tax in Australia on July 1 is expected to cost the nation's universities more than A$40 million (Pounds 15 million), while ongoing annual...
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Studying where sharks are safe
One of the most remote populated islands on the planet, a former US Navy base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, was the site of the decisive second world war Battle of Midway. Four Japanese...
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Maximum award paid out for unfair sacking
A jury in San Jose has found that Stanford University senior researcher Colleen Crangle was fired in retaliation for complaints of sex discrimination and has ordered Stanford to pay her $545,000 -...
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Life in saddle not bad for you
Good news for equestrians - riding is not bad for your health. The first analysis of whole-body vibrations for riders has found that the forces exerted on the spine are not likely to cause damage....
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Make sure free lunches pay
WHY. Many people forget what they learn the minute they walk out of the door, writes Jennifer Moon WHAT. Workshops and short courses are a popular way of developing professional skills in most...
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Agony aunt
Q With all the scare stories about downloading essays from the web, how can I check that my students are not cheating? A One of the banes of technology is that it is becoming ever easier to cheat in...
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Students to repay 'debt' to society
Argentine education minister Juan Jose Llach is pressing for the introduction of community work as a compulsory component of all undergraduate courses at the country's 84 state and private...
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G8 plans to double traffic in learning
The Group of Eight leading industrialised nations is discussing plans to double the number of its lecturers and students who travel abroad to study and work, as part of a strategy to equip its...
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Students riot over attempts to curb Muslims on council
Students at the University of Jordan have been demonstrating against attempts by the university authorities to prevent Islamic students from controlling the student council. Riot police have been...