Canadians club together
Canada's most populous province has set up a half-billion dollar endowment that may help offset recent tuition fee increases. The Ontario government plans to match the Can$250 million (Pounds 110...
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Take one sink, some citric acid and create a scientist
John Nicholson's new science course at the University of East Anglia is down to earth. Its modest requirements are a sink, electricity and some tables easily furnished by most village halls. Ideally...
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National training plans to be reviewed
Plans for a teacher training national curriculum are under review by the new Government, education secretary David Blunkett said this week. The Teacher Training Agency's highly criticised core...
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First-class war with a phobia
The last eight essays Kevin Reah wrote in his final year at the Open University were outstanding by anybody's reckoning, five receiving marks of 95 per cent and the remaining three 100 per cent,...
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Research riles Irish director
A LECTURER has been disciplined over research he conducted into reading and writing difficulties of some of his students. Patrick Greer suggested that the textbooks were too difficult for average...
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Happiness is a biscuit bar
Few scientists have the satisfaction of reaching the peak of academic excellence and then putting the product they worked on in the laboratory on the market, but Mexican microbiologist Alfredo...
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Indians consider code for standards
INDIA's University Grants Commission is studying a proposal for a model code of governance for universities following complaints of increasing political interference in their affairs and a fall in...
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Indian students protest over student leaders death
* Late last month, as the campaign for the arrest of the "killers" of the radical student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad spread (THES, April 25), nearly 10,000 university students from across India...
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Time at a premium
"Permanent academics still have a large degree of freedom in choosing how to devote their time" (THES, May 2). Surely there is one obvious counterblast to Vincenzo Raimo's "Golden age of the don is...
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Japanese venture into business partnerships with industry
Hokkaido University in north Japan is to establish a business investment fund to attract capital for manufacturing and marketing the products being developed at the university's research laboratories...
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Aarhus deaths link
DEATHS caused by pesticides so toxic that they are banned in Denmark have brought Aarhus University under public scrutiny because its research fund holds 45 per cent of the shares in Cheminova, the...
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Fast-track degrees scandal
THE RECTOR and vice rector of Milan's state university and the dean of its medical faculty may face trial after a two-year investigation into corruption allegations. They are among up to 30 of the...
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Peeved 'retiree' off to US
DISGUSTED with a "stupid rule" which is forcing him to retire, the French scientist who first isolated the HIV virus in 1983 is to head a new research centre on Aids and other "emergent diseases" at...
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UNL left SCITT
Your In Brief item headed "UNL consortium's teaching won't do" (THES, May 2) was so brief that it gives a very misleading account. The consortium of seven schools which was referred to was headed and...
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Tables turn for German universities
GERMAN universities have been gripped by league table fever as the news magazine Focus publishes an exhaustive survey of the best universities in 20 different subjects over a nine-week series....