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A senior official at Portugal's ministry of education has resigned after the public prosecution office decided to investigate the private Modern University. Reports of alleged financial...
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Lord Sainsbury: How we are encouraging entrepreneurs
Competitive advantage comes not from doing what other countries do well but from what we can do better than them, and in this country one of the things we do outstandingly well is scientific...
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How to identify your skills
Science PhD graduates have many marketable skills that can land them an alternative career. Medical writer Chandra Louise tells Natasha Loder Two years ago, Chandra Louise was, in her own words, yet...
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Post-result application plan gets short shrift from staff
New admissions procedures where students apply to university once they have their A-level results would be "unworkable", bring few benefits to applicants or universities and seriously cut staff...
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V-cs propose fee voucher scheme
Higher education fee vouchers should be introduced and universities should be allowed to charge more for some courses, vice-chancellors said this week. They argued that such steps are necessary to...
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Thais look to UK for learning excellence
Thailand's Ministry of University Affairs has called on British politicians and education leaders to broker more partnerships between Thai and British higher education institutions, writes Tony...
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Police are keeping a close watch on students, intellectuals and the grave of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang to prevent public commemorations of the tenth anniversary of the start of the...
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Norway awarded a record number of doctorates in 1998 - 685, compared with 625 in 1997. Mathematics and natural sciences accounted for 29 per cent of theses in 1998. The proportion awarded to women...
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Soldiers have clashed with students at the University of Konkon in Guinea over the death of a chemistry student knocked down while shopping by a taxi driver. When students allegedly destroyed the...
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Three medical professors at the University of Milan have been arrested on fraud and corruption charges in connection with consultancy work at an exclusive private teaching hospital, the San Raffaele...
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Eye witness
Lax industrial safety practices are a dire legacy for the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In the remote Siberian town of Uysol Sibirskoe, the Chemprom chemical plant is...
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British aid managers urge extension of Russian fund
MOSCOW Managers of a Pounds 4 million British government scheme to help universities design and implement new courses to speed democratic, economic and social reform in the former Soviet Union are...
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Artists patch together a new vision on the web
Digital technology is remoulding the aesthetic process - but maybe not for the best. Kathryn Jackson reports Think of quilt-making, and you think of a group of women sitting around a kitchen table,...
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Ground to air missive
A CD-Rom produced by National Air Traffic Services, gives an exhaustive view of working life in the world's busiest airports, using a custom-built interface, video clips and sound. It is aimed at...
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Heavy metal for the data age
Stephen Quigley celebrates the creation of the first working stored-program computer "May 6th 1949. Machine in operation for first time. Printed a table of squares (0-99), time for programme 2 mins,...