Nasty scratch
Ivy League universities share the Oxbridge tendency to be rude about each other, and an example from the Princeton-educated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-up (published posthumously in 1945)...
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Second thoughts
(Photograph) - Second thoughts: Sculptor Josefina de Vasconcellos has unveiled one of her own works for the second time at Bradford University on her 90th birthday. "Reunion" was commissioned by the...
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Forest clue to carbon mystery
The search for the world's missing carbon "sinks" is leading to findings that "go against every ecologist's text book", a conference was told last week. Paul Curran, professor of geography at...
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Community care `stress'
Almost three-quarters of family doctors in a nationwide survey feel they have patients who are under strain from the Government's policy of community care. This is the finding of Colin Francome,...
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Treatment promises to kill malaria
Malaria kills up to five million people around the world every year. Now teams of researchers in Australia are developing new cures for an age-old menace. The World Health Organisation's optimistic...
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Pesticide death toll under microscope
Pesticide use by farmers could be reduced after a Southampton University study of the impact of the chemicals on farmland insects. The Pounds 500,000 project, called Scarab, is being carried out by...
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Radical college on the ropes
Such is the financial crisis hitting American higher education -- particularly small, liberal arts colleges -- that some are doing the unthinkable, sacking staff, and even abolishing academic tenure...
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Study line
(Photograph) - Study line: Eurostar, operator of the first channel tunnel services between Paris, Brussels and London, may introduce a student concessionary fare when its full fare structure is...
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Universities on guard for return of quality auditor
For the second year running, Australian universities are being subject to a federal quality audit. At stake is almost $80 million (Pounds 36.4 million) in additional grants. Review teams from the...
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Protesters recoup research funding
The French government has made concessions on public research funding after two demonstrations and a laboratory strike by staff of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. As...
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Leaders of future lean to the right
German students are becoming more conventional and self-interested and are even tending towards right-wing nationalism, according to research commissioned by the federal education ministry. Student...
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Tecce wins third term
Giorgio Tecce, 71, has been elected for a third term as Magnifico Rettore of Rome's La Sapienza University, Europe's biggest institution of higher education, and second only in the world in size to...
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Violent protests roused by tough cuts
As the new academic year begins in West Africa, some francophone countries are determined to see through unpopular university reforms, repeatedly postponed in the past because of student and staff...
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University of Sierra Leone fails to re-open
The University of Sierra Leone failed to re-open for the new academic year. The government of Captain Valentine Strasser ordered it to remain closed so that much-needed renovations could be carried...
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Year-long lecturers' strike reaches final impasse
Professors at the University of Nairobi are continuing a lecturers' strike that has now paralysed academic programmes there for nearly a year. When the university re-opened its door to 2,700 first-...