New hope for allergy sufferers
JONATHAN Lamb, an internationally renowned immunologist, this week unveiled research he hopes will produce a dust mite vaccine to help asthma, rhinitis and eczema sufferers, writes Olga Wojtas....
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Suburbs no living hell
FEW terms in the English language carry more negative baggage than "suburban", which conjures up images of complacent, conformist, conservative mediocrity. Mark Clapson, senior lecturer in history at...
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Armenians must do it for themselves
EUROPE. Higher education and scholarly culture in Armenia needs a massive reconstruction effort if it is to escape from its post-Soviet crisis, Catholicos Karekin I, the head of the Armenian church...
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A university after 40 years of debate
EUROPE. After 40 years of often bitter debate, the city of Bolzano/Bozen, capital of Italy's German-speaking Alto Adige province, is to have its own university. Stiff opposition had come from the...
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Young communists build forbidden party
EUROPE. Young communists are building a new youth movement in Russia's universities despite laws forbidding political activity on campus. Members of the youth wing of the Communist Party of the...
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Germany publishes its first league table
EUROPE. For the first time, the German research association DFG has published a league table showing rankings based on its research funding allocations between 1991 and 1995. The most surprising...
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'Crisis' forces president to quit
EUROPE. The president of Paris-X Nanterre University, Michel Imberty, has resigned after being forced to enroll extra students with no extra resources. Francoise Renversez, a 64-year-old economics...
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Wounded West could still bite
AUSTRALIA. THE AUSTRALIAN government has rejected key proposals put forward by a committee it established to advise on the future of the nation's higher education system even before the committee's...
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Dispute over tenure reforms
NORTH AMERICA. Three Canadian professors who have written on "the crisis in Canada's universities" are calling for tenure at the country's universities to be reformed. In Petrified Campus, David...
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Pilot project for the Caribbean
NORTH AMERICA. A pilot programme for Caribbean students studying in Canadian universities has been announced by the Canadian government, writes Philip Fine. The $Can1.75 million (Pounds 790,000)...
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Scientists charged with insider trading
NORTH AMERICA. Two American university scientists are among seven people who face criminal charges that they used secret information about a new drug they were testing to make insider stock trades....
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States pay out to make up losses
NORTH AMERICA. Public funding in 1997/98 for institutions soars, but long-term prospects remain unstable Higher education spending in the United States's 50 states has soared in 1997/98, the...
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A country united by its divisions
Anyone who needs to communicate with India from abroad knows there has been a revolution in the past few years. Not long ago, it was difficult even to transmit a fax to India, let alone receive an...
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Friends in the Northeast
PUBLICATION last week of the "Declaration for the North" was a unique event in modern English regional politics. It called on the government to bring forward plans for the creation of an elected...
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Chasing the grant dragon
Are academics going GAGA (suffering from grant application gambling addiction) in their quest to escape drudgery, asks William J. Keenan "Eleven 'goes' since July. Three hits - one bonanza and two...