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Q With all the scare stories about downloading essays from the web, how can I check that my students are not cheating? A One of the banes of technology is that it is becoming ever easier to cheat in...
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Students to repay 'debt' to society
Argentine education minister Juan Jose Llach is pressing for the introduction of community work as a compulsory component of all undergraduate courses at the country's 84 state and private...
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G8 plans to double traffic in learning
The Group of Eight leading industrialised nations is discussing plans to double the number of its lecturers and students who travel abroad to study and work, as part of a strategy to equip its...
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Students riot over attempts to curb Muslims on council
Students at the University of Jordan have been demonstrating against attempts by the university authorities to prevent Islamic students from controlling the student council. Riot police have been...
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French no longer enough in France
Jack Lang, France's new minister of education, has long-term plans for all students to graduate with a good command of two foreign languages. As a first step he is giving priority to the introduction...
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Dissident Serb academics seek British partnership
Dissident Serbian academics are exploring the possibility of collaboration with universities in the UK. Representatives from the Belgrade-based Alternative Academic Education Network have been in...
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Scots greet web 'tidal wave'
Scottish Knowledge, which exports university and college expertise in education and training, has signed a global e-university alliance with Shell International, to give the company's 75,000...
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Ozone used to clean water
Chemists have devised a way to harness the cleansing properties of ozone to strip pollutants from waste water. A team of experts from the University of Bradford is setting up a plant to test its...
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Victory for dot-com with a conscience
Like most MBA students now, Jenna Beart and Michael Douek dream of starting a dot-com company and making their first million. Unlike most, they also plan to save lives along the way. And as winners...
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Online Africa gets study boost
The headquarters of the African Virtual University will move from Washington to Nairobi this year to facilitate coordination of its different sites across sub-Saharan Africa. George Eshiwani, AVU...
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Global optical networks
(Photograph) - Researchers at the University of Southampton are using European funding to developways of doubling bandwidth in next-generation global optical networks. Beth Taylor, Bill Brocklesby...
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Science must be sure to secure its share of windfall
Universities are just one of the groups taking an acute interest in the Pounds 20 billion-plus windfall that chancellor Gordon Brown is about to receive by auctioning spectrum space for new-...
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A mid-term rebuke will not provoke big change
Monday marks three years of new Labour in power, and next week's local government elections in London and nationally look likely to deliver the traditional mid-term rebuke to the government. But as...
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Refugee academics deserve your support
The new Asylum and Immigration Act threatens the livelihoods of displaced academics, says John Akker Imagine the implications for knowledge if Karl Popper or Max Perutz had been held in detention or...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this service is...