Israel's open door proposal opposed
Powerful figures in Israeli higher education are opposing finance ministry proposals to throw open the first year of university to any student who passes matriculation. Under the ministry plan,...
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Toronto blazes trail in giving guarantee to graduates
The University of Toronto has become the first Canadian university to offer a guaranteed level of financial support for graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees, offering them a minimum C$12,000...
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£1 billion Russian plans will scrap entrance exams
Plans to scrap university entrance exams as part of a fundamental reform of the Russian education system are to be announced in Moscow next week. The 42 billion rouble (£1 billion) reforms will...
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Blame flies over missed £5m
College chiefs and lecturers' union leaders have blamed each other for "throwing away" a chance to take an extra £5 million in government funds for pay, enough to avoid strikes next month. The...
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Science take-up declines
A drop in the number of people taking up places to study traditional science subjects is revealed by this week's Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figures, coinciding with the launch of...
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Search starts for the funny bone
Why did the psychologist cross the road? To start an investigation into the science of humour. Richard Wiseman, senior lecturer in psychology at Hertfordshire University and reader in the public...
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Latest international news
Indonesian rector assassinated The rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, has been assassinated by hit-men. Dayan Dawood, 55, was shot on Thursday just after leaving the...
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Latest UK news
BA conference highlights algae fears Poisonous algae are being shipped around the world in the ballast tanks of cargo vessels, delegates at the British Association's Festival of Science heard today....
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From today's UK papers
Guardian Plato's Republic has been voted the greatest work of philosophy, despite the fact that most modern thinkers would rubbish almost all of what he said. Independent Two hundred people have...
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Sea change heralds big freeze A giant belt of moving water that dictates the climate of Britain and northern Europe has slowed down by 20 per cent since 1950, confirming fears that the UK could be in...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian Labour needs to spell out its commitment to public control of public services, writes higher education minister Margaret Hodge. The high use of paracetamol in the UK and other English-...
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Britain "vulnerable to bio war"
British Association for the Advancement of Science BA president Sir William Stewart warned this week that the failure to curb the foot-and-mouth outbreak has highlighted Britain's vulnerability if...
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Nobel laureates join Toronto protest Twenty-seven internationally renowned psychiatrists and medical researchers, including Nobel laureates Julius Axelrod and Arvid Carlsson, have accused the...
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Cybersquatter surrenders Oxford name The World Intellectual Property Organisation has ruled that an Australian cybersquatter must surrender the domain name university-of-oxford.com that he had...
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From today's UK papers
Guardian Microbiologist Stephen Dealler writes that we may soon know the size of the variant CJD (human BSE) epidemic and how to treat it. University of Surrey researchers say...