The truth behind a plush exterior
Trisha Greenhalgh looks at the down side of high-tech learning on the web of primary health care. It is digital, it is interactive, it comes with high-tech bells and whistles and it is based on up-to...
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Giving a voice to silence
Alan Skelton argues that gay and bisexual academics have a right to rethink the curriculum. It is "doing the job" that counts, not your sexuality, argued Michael Portillo in his campaign to become...
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More cash for fewer PhDs
Fewer students should pursue a PhD in the life sciences, according to an umbrella body representing 15 professional societies. "Numbers trained should be brought closer to demand. This needs a...
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Better security call
University employers are being urged to review campus security after a report by one staff union highlighted violent attacks on its members. The Transport and General Workers Union has written to the...
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Student credibility check could 'jeopardise job offers'
Student records staff have attacked a commercial service that plans to check whether graduates are lying about their qualifications. For Pounds 35 a go, employers will be able to check the validity...
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Death and dinosaurs help make ends meet
Income generation to make up for falling state funding is a fact of life for universities around the world. But at the University of Malawi it is also a fact of death. While several African...
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Jordanian beats path to Israel
JERUSALEM The ice between Jordanian and Israeli academics may finally have been broken by a Jordanian professor visiting the University of Haifa. Muhana Haddad, who teaches sociology and anthropology...
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Move to private revenue
MELBOURNE. Australia's universities will increasingly be forced to rely on private sources of revenue, according to federal government spending figures for higher education over the next three years...
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Bamako
About 500 students from Mauritania studying at the National University in Bamako, capital of Mali, have occupied their country's embassy in protest at non-payment of their bursaries for the past...
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A step into troubled waters
Study of Sri Lankan reservoirs exposes David Simon to a critical week in a war-torn country going to the polls. My flight from Heathrow touches down in Colombo at 3.30am for a week's research co-...
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Astronomical changes afoot
The widening scope of British astronomy could spell the end for an Anglo-Australian collaboration. Julia Hinde reports In the new millennium, optical astronomy - one of the world's oldest sciences -...
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Burma lets students trickle back
BANGKOK Burma's universities, closed by the country's military junta in 1996, are steadily reopening, according to the government. But education authorities have been accused of deliberately...
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Brussels
German-born Klaus van der Pas is to be the new director general of the European Commission's education and culture directorate. He was spokesman for former commission president Jacques Santer from...
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Head start
(Photograph) - Head start: Graham Harding, head of the neurosciences research institute at Aston University with a whole-head scanner - the only one in Britain.
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Rome
Italian architecture historian Bruno Zevi has died aged 81. A fierce opponent of anti-semitism and fascism, Professor Zevi described Italy's universities as "hideously degenerate" . For 30 years he...