Hard to get in, harder to find
Barely one in 20 applicants has been accepted for Olin College of Engineering in the autumn, making it one of the most difficult schools in America to enter. This is an impressive performance...
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Credit transfers shake up 'fossilised' French system
France is to drop its "fossilised" university degree system and adopt a more flexible structure composed of modules and credit transfers under plans announced last week by education minister Jack...
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Have you got what it takes to succeed in Europe? Yes, oui, ja?
European managers need to speak fluent English more than ever before, but English alone is not enough. Firms are increasingly demanding that candidates for high-level posts speak at least two, if not...
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Fibre feat is a load of thin air
An optical fibre being developed at the University of Southampton looks set to improve telecommunications networks. The fibre should carry more data than existing optical fibres and could speed the...
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JISC fails to unite e-providers
The Joint Information Systems Committee's bid to procure a united national service providing journal abstracts, full text, indexing services and other electronic content has been abandoned amid...
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Spain short of high-tech dons
Spanish universities are feeling the strain of a shortage of information technology personnel. A lack of IT staff at Madrid's Autonomous University (UAM) has forced it to shelve plans to expand...
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Pact puts an end to library trek
Scotland's pioneering Institute for System Level Integration has joined forces with two of its member universities to give students desktop access to a library of more than 500,000 articles. The ISLI...
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Home truths
Stephen Byers, secretary of state for trade and industry, opens the Space4 factory in Castle Bromwich. The Westbury building group's factory uses a new process that builds homes with higher standards...
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Free software will build architect skill
Software that radically changes the way architects work is being offered free to European academic institutions. Revit Technology, creator of the first parametric building modeller for architects and...
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Intellectual challenge
Universities need better support networks if they are fully to exploit their intellectual property rights, argues Graham Christ. Previous attempts to promote the exploitation of intellectual property...
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What does a retired historian care about English?
The British Academy is not equipped to administer funding for the Arts and Humanities Research Board, argues Martin Dodsworth. The British Academy's headquarters in Carlton House Terrace, just down...
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Why I... believe we should market education as if someone might want to buy it
Several generations have been substantially switched off to further learning. They share a memory of education as something negative, remedial, enjoyed, if at all, under a regime of compulsion. How...
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Top and bottom of the patent pile
Germany appears to be the most industrially innovative country in the European Union, filing 43.6 per cent of EU patent applications with the European Patent Office in 1999. Its nearest rival, France...
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Here's looking at EU
The Joint Research Council's new director-general describes its harmonising role to Paul Bompard. The European Union's Joint Research Centre was founded in 1957 under the Euratom Treaty. It has its...
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Cutting Edge: Gurdyl Besra
With drug-resistant tuberculosis still a danger, the search is on for weak spots in the TB bacterium and ways to attack them. Tuberculosis has claimed the lives of millions of people in developing...