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(Photograph) - Eye-catching: this photograph by Pauline Nield of a Liverpool University student peering out from a stained-glass window won her a special award in the business and industry category...
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How the pro-Putin forces stack up in the Duma
The likelihood that Russia's acting president, former internal security chief Vladimir Putin, will be voted into the Kremlin next month is casting a shadow over academic freedoms won during a decade...
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In an age of enlightenment
After years of being told how to think, first by the state and then by the church, the Poles, says Richard Bradford, have a mind for change Teaching in Poland was not exactly a childhood dream, in...
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Moscow
Restoration work on Moscow State University's Stalin-era central tower is underway after years of warnings of the dangers of corroding masonry. A French company plans to replace all acid rain-damaged...
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Ottawa
Canada is to bail out its banks over losses from a high rate of default on student loans. The three major banks are likely to receive Can$100 million (Pounds 42 million) from the federal government,...
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Tehran
Twenty policemen, including former Tehran police chief, Brigadier General Farhad Nazari, are to stand trial for their role in a raid on a student hostel last July, the official Iranian news agency...
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Joint plan renews old academic ties
Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski and his Ukrainian counterpart, Leonid Kuchma, have discussed founding a joint Polish-Ukrainian university. For both sides, this is a sensitive issue. During...
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Calls for new blood in ancient academie
PARIS The Academie des Sciences - an elite and historic institution with a membership including the most eminent, if not the youngest, scientists of France - last week presented guidelines for...
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Student press wins Fiji human rights prize
Journalism students at Fiji's University of the South Pacific have won a human rights award and two local student journalism awards. But despite the high standards at the USP, the Fijian government...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Warwick academic Ken Robinson asked why the government had not publicised his report on improving creative and cultural education. I wholeheartedly agree with Ken Robinson's...
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Funding falls short as degree demand increases
MELBOURNE Australian universities have experienced a surge in demand for places. There have been more than 250,000 applications this year, but at least 50,000 would-be students will miss out because...
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Media Lab serves up coffee and a weather report
BOSTON One of the latest gadgets being developed by the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an espresso machine that is designed to read the user's coffee preference from a bar...
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Deal brews up bigger market for yeast deposit service
Britain's leading brewing yeast research centre has joined forces with a private-sector company to market and sell its expertise to beer makers worldwide. Based at the Institute of Food Research in...
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Technical hitches inhibit net study
Research into distance learning reveals that student frustrations with technology and its implementation can inhibit educational opportunities. A study by Rob Kling, professor of information science...
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Scottish Knowledge secures investment
Scotland's universities and colleges have signed a partnership deal valued at Pounds 3.54 million with News International to become a worldwide distance learning distributor. Scottish Knowledge plc...