Girls email their way into male internet culture
Schools that emphasise the communicative aspects of information technology are likely to attract more girls to what has long been seen as a male-dominated subject. Researchers at Sheffield and...
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Publicise patients' primary care centres, GPs told
Patients' unhappiness with the way they are treated by the health service out of hours often stems from a lack of information about what to expect, according to researchers at Lancaster University....
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Americans conduct odd love affair with Scottish nationalism
The Scottish National Party should be cautious in its bid for support in the United States, where views of Scottishness can be "ambiguous and murky", a Staffordshire University research fellow warned...
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Pyschometric testing could cut student doctor drop-outs
Medical schools should consider introducing psychometric tests into selection procedures, University of Nottingham and the Oxford Consulting group researchers say. Early findings from a seven-year...
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Season of goodwill job hunting
How can students turn pulling pints into key skills? Tony Tysome looks at the latest approach to work experience. Students, university careers officers and employers are being encouraged to rethink...
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Iron fists in velvet gloves
Progress and tradition could go hand in hand in China but only if reformists will let them, Wang Gungwu argues. The Indian regional elections went well for the Congress Party in November, but perhaps...
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Benin
Half the 800 graduating students at the Federal University of Benin, Nigeria, were prevented from attending their degree ceremony by armed soldiers, who cordoned off the area to forestall a...
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Umea
A court in the Norrland district of northSweden has increased the sentence on Daniel Berner, a member of the neo-Nazi network Nordland, and confirmed the sentence of Karolina Matti, a PhD student at...
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Vienna
Almost 40,000 personal files and records documenting forced labour in the former Hermann Goering steelworks during the Nazi period have been found in an anti-aircraft gun bunker in Linz. Historian...
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Directors don chancellors' robes
The search by Australian universities for non-government sources of income is affecting their choice of chancellors. Universities are increasingly looking to corporate chiefs to don their chancellors...
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China opens student door a little wider
The China Scholarship Council is improving arrangements for Chinese students and scholars to study overseas and for foreign students to study in China. More than 1,709 students and scholars have been...
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Outrage at 'contented slave' view of history
A small college in the American South has bowed to pressure from civil rights groups and cancelled a course that argued slaves were content with their lot. The course, called "North Carolina History...
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World Bank fund for farm experts
The World Bank is investing heavily in farming extension education in universities across sub-Saharan Africa to break the link between poor agricultural practices and chronic food shortages. Ghana's...
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University battles old-school ties
The Netherlands' Leiden University is making a bid for independence. Leiden chairman Laurens Vredevoogd wants to free the country's oldest university from government control and develop it as a top-...
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Students fuel debate on college reforms
Details of the controversial reform to reorganise university studies around three, five or eight year courses have been released following student unrest and calls for clarification from the newly...