Portable laboratory
HOSPITALS, pharmaceutical firms and environment monitoring agencies could benefit from a new portable "micro-laboratory" being developed by researchers at Luton University. The laboratory will enable...
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Mars, the brave new utopia
MARS has become a natural backdrop for 20th-century writers wanting to create their own Utopias. According to Edward James, professor of history at the University of Reading. "It has taken the place...
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V-cs alarmed at shift in control
A BATTLE is looming for control of South Africa's 35 universities and technikons. The government seems to want greater state intervention while institutions are arguing to keep their autonomy....
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Fees infuriate Oz students
Rowdy student protests at two Australian universities last week prevented the councils of the two institutions going ahead with plans to apply full-cost fees to home students. The protests were the...
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Middle East 'fear of peace'
ACADEMICS from four Middle East countries have turned the peace dialogue on its head by meeting to talk about the "fear of peace". A two-day workshop organised in Jordan by the Royal Institute for...
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California dreams of cluster courses
CALIFORNIANS are rebelling at the university tradition of obliging students to take courses outside their chosen major in the name of a broad education. The 24,000 undergraduates at University of...
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US medics in bid to bar foreigners
FEARS of a glut of doctors led to calls this week for a clampdown on the number of foreign medical students allowed to train and practise in the United States. Six medical groups, including the...
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Japan's missing 10,000 students
JAPAN is anxious that it is off-target in its plans to recruit 100,000 foreigners to study at colleges, universities and graduate schools by the year 2000. Overseas student numbers rose fivefold from...
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Doctors take a lesson in caring
STUDENTS at a top medical school in the United States are having to master more than basic science and anatomy. To graduate, they now will have to prove they have compassion. Brown University has...
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Assas turns its back on right
Right-wing unions have taken a beating in elections at the Paris bastion of far-right student politics, the Assas Paris II University. The extreme right-wing student list, Union-Droit, which...
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Belgrade rector replaced
The rector of Belgrade University has resigned. His resignation was one of the main demands of the Student Protest 96/97 movement, which for more than 100 days had kept up street demonstrations and...
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Reforms to squeeze Italy's rolls
Italy's university minister, Luigi Berlinguer, has launched a series of radical reforms to reverse decades of chronic overcrowding and to reduce the 70 per cent of students who fail to complete their...
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High-tech chance to heal rifts
In the pre-election phoney war, pressure groups are queuing to seek hostages to fortune from the opposition parties. And the future of Commonwealth students in the United Kingdom is one of those...
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Jamboree has had its day
It's Red Nose Day! It is also the day Ian Taylor, minister for science and technology, launches the National Week of Science, Engineering and Technology. These two festivals have much in common. They...
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Pay system should build on UCEA
Who gains what from having a national system for settling academic pay, and who stands to gain from a possible breakup of the present arrangements? These questions arise from the debate on the future...