From today's UK papers
The Financial Times Stockbroker TD Waterhouse is the latest financial group to sever links with Huntingdon Life Sciences after pressure from animal rights protesters. The Daily Mail Fears are growing...
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Paisley names new prinicipal Paisley University has appointed John Macklin, currently pro vice-chancellor at Leeds University, principal from October. He will succeed Richard Shaw, who has been...
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From today's UK papers
The Times Independent schools are snubbing the first exams of the new A-level curriculum, raising fears that a two-tier system is opening up across sixth forms. Vitali Valstev, a scientist from...
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Latest international news
US body urges end to derogatory nicknames The US Commission on Civil Rights has urged colleges to stop using American Indian nicknames and mascots. It said their use by non-tribal colleges created a...
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Universities urged to go green Universities and colleges were today urged to become more involved in promoting sustainable development, in the third report of the sustainable development...
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The Guardian Roger Bilham, of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Philip England, of Oxford University, have solved the riddle of the Assam earthquake of 1897, the worst in modern history,...
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Campus killing triggers riots
More than 1,000 Ugandan students from Makerere University battled with riot police on the streets of the capital, Kampala, last week after the second fatal shooting of a student in the space of four...
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Smear tactics spread HIV fear
Nigerian health authorities destroyed thousands of sanitary towel samples distributed free to students because of false allegations by Muslim fundamentalists that they were contaminated with the HIV...
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Student intake limited in Kenya
Public universities in Kenya are limiting their first-year intake this year despite pressure from the president, Daniel arap Moi, to double numbers after many students in 1999 were left without...
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Free online material causes rethink in US
A decision by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make nearly all its course materials available free online is prompting US academic institutions to re-examine plans for online courses....
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Screen saver will aid search for cancer cure
Forget flying windows screen savers during those idle moments - help to solve the riddle of cancer instead. Researchers from Oxford University hope that as many as 1 million people will download...
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'Killer' service clamps down on illegal access
A system that provides defence-industry strength encryption to e-learning institutions has been launched. Last week, London-based WebGenerics released dotEncrypt, a service solution for digital-...
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Will sleeping watchdogs wake to the battle-cry?
South Africa's universities must rethink traditional roles as the country marches to freedom, says David Jobbins. Among its many roles in a rapidly changing world, the university acts as a check on...
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Time for a tax rethink
Britain's tax and benefits system is a mess and is starving services such as education of essential funding, says Maurice Saatchi. It is a stark fact of 21st-century life that government and citizen...
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Why I... believe the student-staff gap needs to be bridged
We are forced to share one copy of The THES on our corridor. With high rents, tuition fees and the prospect of top-up-fees - every expenditure has to be considered. I could go into great detail about...