Philippe Busquin
For a physicist and Belgian politician, Philippe Busquin, confirmed as European commissioner for research on Wednesday, seems to have a knack for creating a stir. In 1995, he surprised everyone by...
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Don's diary
Friday Make it to my rented study at about 10am. Have just begun the final revision of my thesis, with a view to finishing on September 4 (the last, I hope, of many projected deadlines). I am not...
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The Portillo files
All eyes this week have been on Peterhouse College, Cambridge, Michael Portillo's alma mater, and, in his student days, reportedly a place of "high camp" where fellows and undergraduates were given...
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Don't mention the war
While the Jewish community apparently supported moves by the University of Pisa to lay a stone for Giovanni Gentile, the late Italian fascist politician and former education minister, the idea has...
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BA in pooch preening
Physics and chemistry are still losing their allure for university students but pooch pampering is on the up, according to the University of Central Lancashire. It is advertising a part-time post as...
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On the move
Lane Hughston, former director of derivative product risk management at Merrill Lynch, London, has been appointed the first professor of financial mathematics at King's College, London. Two other...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded its first postdoctoral research fellowships to: James Hall, 31, lecturer in the department of civil engineering, University of Bristol, to carry out...
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South Africa
(Photograph) - Frustrated post-apartheid expectations and stubborn unemployment levels among blacks are the bugbears of Thabo Mbeki's new government in South Africa. The plunge in the international...
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The Hague
The Hague Academic libraries in the Netherlands have joined forces to prevent publishers increasing journal prices above the rate of inflation. Publishers will have to give advance notice of annual...
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Overcrowding
Pisa Overcrowding in Italy's 70 universities and higher education institutes is being blamed for an average annual dropout rate of 66 per cent. The Organizzazione di Cooperazione e di Sviluppo...
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Student demonstrations in Iran
Tehran In the wake of July's student demonstrations in Iran, president Mohammad Khatami has defined universities as "privileged places for dialogue and tolerance" and called on students to "draw...
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Students forced to squat in Holland
First-year students are resorting to squatting in empty buildings in Amsterdam, as the housing situation in the Dutch capital becomes increasingly desperate. Ten thousand new students arrive every...
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Rigging alleged in Prague law exam
More than 400 would-be law students at Charles University in the Czech Republic are resitting entrance exams this month after allegations of rigging forced their cancellation in June. Claims surfaced...
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An easy cross for ' il magnifico'
The rector of the University of Teramo, in the mountainous Abruzzo region of central Italy, has become captain of one of the best local amateur football teams. Luciano Russi, who in his youth played...
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Ugandan lecturers told to get PhDs
Lecturers at Uganda's Makerere University have until October 2002 to achieve a PhD or risk being sacked under recommendations from a university committee appointed to improve academic standards. ...