Delivering the impossible
When other research councils cannot do something, they go to the CLRC. Martin Ince reports. Life in a government laboratory ought to be a calming experience, but Bert Westwood runs one that is as...
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Copenhagen
A hunt for the remains of a meteorite thought to have landed in south-west Greenland in December 1997 has resulted in two specks of dust. They were found after three tons of snow had been melted and...
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Ouagadougou
Protesting academics and students have rejected a request by Blaise Campaore, president of Burkina Faso and chairman of the Organisation of African Unity, to sit on an inquiry into the death of a...
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Rome
Tor Vergata, the second-largest university in Rome, has discovered that just before elections for university committees several hundred new students, mostly over 30, enrol, pay a first instalment of...
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Minister slams lazy lecturers
Italy's new university minister Ortensio Zecchino has told academics that they must work harder and reduce their outside interests. "Italian academics work too little, less than their European...
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Twente offers asylum seekers a study home
The University of Twente is planning to accommodate young asylum seekers on campus. The idea came from the student council which wanted to help ease the problems faced by refugees in the Netherlands...
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Internet insight into the party machine
The head of the Portuguese Association of Industrial Archaeology is leading an investigation into factory museums in Russia and other former socialist countries. Anthropologist Antonio Eduardo...
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Furry friends
(Photograph) - Furry friends: Steve Gray, a New Deal student, with a red ruffed Lemur at the Shaldon Wildlife Trust in south Devon. The trust, which specialises in small animals and primates, is...
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Vice-chancellor and top academic pay 1997-98
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Paris eight team up to upgrade campus
The university presidents of inner Paris last week unveiled ambitious plans to turn their old, cramped faculties into an international showcase for the new millennium, with modernised premises, new...
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Pension scandal stops lecturers retiring
Academics and senior administrators at the University of Nairobi are taking legal action against trustees of the university's pension fund, alleging mismanagement of KSh 1.2 billion (Pounds 11.8...
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Earn keep, India tells its v-cs
Indian universities will switch to performance-related funding in-stead of needs-related if University Grants Commission plans go ahead. The move means that universities will be assessed on...
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Register deadline set to trap fly-by-night colleges
South Africa is to crack down on private higher education universities and colleges that fail to register. Hundreds have sprung up in recent years and are training as many as 800,000 people. While...
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Locals fret over campus incomers
Malaysian ministers have hailed Nottingham University's plan to build the first branch campus of a British university here as a "landmark" in their drive to broaden higher education opportunities....
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Abertay on edge
The University of Abertay, Dundee, is bringing together key figures from the digital entertainment industry to help keep its degree courses on the cutting edge. It has signed up 16 industrial and...