Stitch in time
(Photograph) - Alexandra Clarke of the Textile Conservation Centre in Hampton Court Palace examines a 15th-century tapestry. The centre will join forces with the University of Southampton in August...
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New chairman Tom Husband has suggested that the academic networking company, Ukerna, could offer commercial services including videoconferencing, breaking its financial dependence on the Joint...
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Maastricht criteria may be too tight
The target figures chosen for fiscal convergence under the Maastricht Treaty have no basis in economic reality and may be damagingly restrictive, says an article in the latest Cambridge Journal of...
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Plants promise multiple sclerosis treatment
Refined fatty acids from some plants and fungi may provide a treatment for multiple sclerosis, according to preliminary findings at Greenwich University. Researchers at the university and at St...
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Private colleges alerted
The Malaysian education ministry has warned private colleges that they face legal action if they mislead students about the foreign status of their degrees. Private colleges have mistakenly taken as...
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Japan to end bias at the Bar
Japan's most difficult exam is the bar exam. Only 746 candidates out of ,112 aspiring barristers, prosecutors and judges passed this year and, according to critics, most of them were males and from...
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Law school's mystery flit
Nigeria's leading law school has been unexpectedly relocated 600 kilometres from the capital Lagos, the economic and financial centre of West Africa, to a small town called Bwari near Abuja. Parents...
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Tuition fee debts soar in South Africa
THOUSANDS of poor students, many of whom have performed satisfactorily academically, face exclusion as cash-strapped universities and technikons crack down on outstanding tuition fees in South Africa...
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Cuts top staff hit-list
ORGANISATIONS representing 700,000 university and college staff around the world have expressed alarm at the way governments are cutting higher education spending. Delegates at an Education...
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Death fuels Israeli fears
THE DEATH of Zvulun Hammer, Israel's education minister, has re-opened political-religious speculation about the future of the higher education system. The 62-year-old leader of the right-wing...
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Telemedicine call pricing 'ridiculous'
Experts on dentistry and distance education exchanged speeches and well-tended smiles last month as a videoconference linked Norway, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, the United States and two United...
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Modem institution struggles with the past
EU accolades and swift expansion have thrust the Open University of Catalonia into the virtual spotlight, Rebecca Warden reports. The first 200 students enrolled in October 1995 had a choice of...
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Together alone on the edge of space and time
Green issues and teaching with technology are fertile areas for an experiment with distance learning, Claire Neesham reports. Location is not an issue when it comes to enrolling on two new courses...
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Cupid's arrow falls short of its target
AMERICAN university and college students are more focused on their studies this Valentine's Day than on marriage or romance, a survey has found. Nearly half of men and 65 per cent of women on...
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Euro-MP tells union to back foreigners
AN ITALIAN Euro-MP has criticised his country's handling of the case of the 1,500 foreign-language lecturers who are claiming maltreatment and discrimination on the grounds of nationality. At a forum...