Low note for TV show
William Paterson University is one New Jersey location unavailable for the filming of the cult TV show The Sopranos , whose second series ended in Britain last week. University officials blamed...
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Australia's students demand funding commitment As Australia enters a federal election year, the country’s National Union of Students has demanded a substantial increase in funding for universities....
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Cost of dropouts £200 million and rising University dropouts are costing the taxpayer an estimated £200 million a year. Mantz Yorke, professor of education at Liverpool John Moores University, told...
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THE GUARDIAN Four anthropologists from the Universitry of Michigan in the US have thrown the story of human origins into confusion with the claim that new evidence shows that modern humans could have...
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25% of SA undergrads are HIV positive A leaked South African department of education report says one in four university undergraduates, one in eight postgraduates and one in five technikon students...
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Doubts raised about overseas operations Concerns have been raised about the Spanish operations of five of six British universities surveyed by the Quality...
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FINANCIAL TIMES Technologists of the future could be hampered in their early learning by glaring inaccuracies in basic science textbooks, warns John Hubisz, visiting professor of physics at North...
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New year's honours: more
OBE Patricia Greenhalgh , senior lecturer, department of primary care and population science, University College London, for services to evidence based medical care. CBE Ljubo Sirc , former...
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Georgia marks civil rights milestone Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the first two black students to enrol at the University of Georgia in the face of violent opposition from white segregationists,...
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FINANCIAL TIMES Mike Tomlinson, chief inspector of schools, has called for companies to play a central role in developing the new skills-based GCSEs and A levels. THE GUARDIAN Vague...
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Revamped National Grid unveiled Michael Wills, minister for learning and technology, will today launch a revamped National Grid for Learning. The site, at www.ngfl.gov.uk , includes links to...
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Student "poisoned by lesbian lover" A psychology student at Rome’s La Sapienza University has been arrested for allegedly murdering her room mate with cyanide-laced soup last February. The victim was...
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THE GUARDIAN The top freshers are again female and the gender gap is still growing. Stephen Court of the Association of University Teachers reports on the fallout of devolution, which in 2001-02 will...
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London Business School dean to leave John Quelch, dean of London Business School, is to step down at the end of the academic year for personal reasons. He and his wife, who is American, will return...
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FINANCIAL TIMES Ministers should rescue the closure-threatened government laboratory at Daresbury in Cheshire, according to a confidential report. Companies have welcomed guidelines issued by the...