Bottom of the business
The bottoms and elbows of future captains of industry are to be well looked after, thanks to Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover. He donated £125,000 to the Said Business School in Oxford, to be spent...
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The thrill of pioneer spirits
Dorothy Zinberg was exhilarated by the sense of academic possibilities in Turkey's new Sabanci University Fantasies are cheap; making them real is quite another story. Having spent my professional...
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Eyewitness: Holiday village threatens last colony of rare birds
Talks later this month between conservationists and Club Mediterranée may seal the fate of the last colony of one of the world's rarest birds. The holiday village company wants to develop an area...
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World watch
Asunción Paraguayan students this week demonstrated over poor government funding for education, health and social programmes, excessive military spending and political corruption. Wellington A...
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Fees shrink Austria's intake
Austria's education minister expects that the introduction of university fees will reduce the number of students by 70,000. Elisabeth Gehrer has implicitly accepted the premise of a study by the...
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Germany to fine 'slow - lane' study
German student organisations have called for the resignation of education minister Edelgard Bulmahn after she supported charging fees for students who take more than 13 semesters to complete their...
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No relief for students as sector cashes in
Canadian university revenues are booming but students say the extra money has done nothing to lessen their financial burdens. Revenues rose 15.7 per cent between 1998-99 and 1999-2000. Fees rose 9.8...
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General is snubbed by ethical Nigeria
Nigeria's university commission has withdrawn a licence granted to former dictator General Ibrahim Babangida to establish the private Heritage University in northern Nigeria. It is the first time a...
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Grim week for groundbreaking females as two chiefs forced out of office
For the first time in Australia a chancellor at one university and a vice-chancellor at another have been forced out of office in the same week, writes Geoff Maslen. The University of Sydney senate...
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Oz rules in favour of sacked scholar
An international boycott imposed on the University of Wollongong after one of its senior academics was summarily dismissed in February has been lifted following a federal court decision last week....
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Ecology journal archive is launched
UK universities can now access an ecology and botany collection comprising 29 journals and more than 1 million pages put together by Jstor, the scholarly journals archive. It is the third digital...
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Call for links to aid e-business
Universities and software process development companies could hold the key to business survival in the networked economy. More than 2,500 academic and business delegates at a recent Rational-Software...
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Arrest sparks boycott of US
Foreign academics are boycotting US-based research programmes and conferences in reaction to the arrest of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, a lobby group has claimed. The Electronic Frontier...
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Scots prime physics talent
Scotland's innovative Institute for System Level Integration is trying to capture the younger generation through a workshop for physics teachers. The workshop is part of a pioneering summer school...
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Pioneers weather the storm
A degree course in mobile computing is being launched by Staffordshire University at the same time as the industry is facing global recession. Thousands of jobs have been shed by multinational...