Favourites boost profs' popularity
A series of radio spots in which celebrities will talk about "My Favourite Professor" is being planned in the United States. Faced with a hostile Congress and a battery of negative publicity, the 44,...
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California president aims for peace
Bitter opponents of the University of California regents, who last month voted to end "affirmative action" or positive discrimination programmes on nine state campuses, have taken to the Internet to...
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New law school sparks accusations
The creation of a law school at Pandio University in Athens has become a point of contention for politicians and academics who accuse each other openly of serving vested interests. Pandio University'...
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Students threaten 'angry autumn'
Germany's "minister for the future" has detailed his plans to shift education funds into research and technology - and unleashed a new storm of controversy about the future financing of higher...
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Saving God's little Acre of the rainforest
Fay Haussman on a project aimed at reconciling man and the environment of the Brazilian rainforest. Marina Silva, the new federal senator for Acre, Brazil's westernmost Amazonian state, recently went...
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Volcano's early warning
Lucia Civetta lives in something approaching heaven for a vulcanologist. A lecturer in geology and vulcanology at Naples University, she is also the director of the Vesuvius Observatory, which...
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Belarus ban denied
Alaksandr Lukashenka, the Soviet-leaning president of Belarus, has denied issuing a decree banning all university text books in the humanities and social sciences published since 1992. The decree,...
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Outrage at shoplifting guide
It is hard to say whether Rabelais would have been amused. Certainly no one in authority was when the editors of a La Trobe University student newspaper named after the great French satirist...
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Pasqua's private problems
France's first private "university" - the brainchild of former interior minister Charles Pasqua - opens on September 4 for just 100 to 200 students after an investment of Fr1.2 billion (Pounds 156...
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Euro-Arab university lift-off
Granada in southern Spain is to play host to a new university with a difference. The Euro-Arab University, opening in October, is designed to act as an academic bridgehead between Europe and the Arab...
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Cereal beats killer salt
The search for crops that can survive the increasingly salty soils of some developing countries has taken a step forward. A researcher has produced a highly nutritious plant that can live in 50 per...
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Bringing up baby to avoid cot death
Preventing cot death is the aim of a Pounds 450,000 specialist unit established at Bristol University's Institute of Child Health. Supported by The Foundation for Study of Infant Death and the Anne...
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Jellyfish plague clogs Mediterranean
The Levant coastline, stretching from Egypt to the Syrian/Turkish border, boasts some of the best beaches in the Mediterranean. Gently sloping shorelines, clear skies, deep sand, warm waters, hot...
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Unique insight into the mists of infancy
A Dundee University psychology graduate has won a Pounds 20,000 studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council for a three-year investigation into the development of blind babies. Julie...
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Long term test to trace alcohol
A simple test is being developed that will allow the medical implications of long-term alcohol consumption to be assessed, writes Rifat Malik. Currently, blood alcohol tests can only measure alcohol...