No chances
City University professor Norman Fenton and two colleagues have started a consultancy company specialising in risk management for business-critical and safety-critical systems. Agena helps clients to...
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Finance close to heart of drug research
MEDICAL researchers in Canada have found a strong association with authors' published positions on the safety of a specific drug and their financial relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers. A...
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Engineers claim Italy broke rule on jobs
ITALY is once again incurring European wrath over its recalcitrance in offering jobs to engineers qualified in other EU countries within the four months' time limit laid down in EU rules. Two German...
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Lectures
Birkbeck College. University of London The following professorial lectures have been arranged: May 13 at 6pm in the Harkness Hall, Douglas Dunn of the University of St Andrews, "Reaching down for...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Cardiff Ian Hargreaves, editor of the New Statesman, has been appointed professor of journalism. He was previously editor of The Independent (1994-96), deputy editor of The...
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French students press for grants
France's national student union says its members are ready to strike unless the government changes the funding system for students by June. UNEF-IF president Pouria Amirshahi told the daily newspaper...
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Big screen breaks
Communications students at Hungarian universities are being encouraged by the head of state educational television to make films and documentaries to challenge the conservatism of modern broadcasting...
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Fees bill hits deadlock
Attempts to resolve the dispute over the adoption of tuition fees in Germany's Higher Education Framework Act appear to have failed. Both ruling coalition and opposition politicians now claim that a...
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Albanian students stopped from entering university
Serbian police prevented Albanian students entering the University of Pristina in Kosova last week despite an agreement to end their exclusion. The Serbs had tried to rehabilitate their damaged...
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France's Pacific ambition
The French University of the Pacific, split between two sites nearly 5,000 kilometres apart, is to become two establishments in a move that will bring greater freedom from French control. The French...
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Minister calls for admin cost cuts
THE AUSTRALIAN government is to insist that universities be made more accountable through the use of performance indicators and may require students to take a final-year test of basic abilities....
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Ministry opposes privatisation
JAPAN's higher education ministry has resolved to put every possible obstacle in the path of plans to privatise the top national universities. The ministry, Monbusho, is pushing plans to make...
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Japan's overdue overhaul
British academics who need cheering up about the state of our universities might glance nine time zones to the east. There, Japan is grappling with university problems that would make our hardest-...
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Bring many minds to bear on policy
A year into the Labour administration there is still a sense of excitement for academics interested in public policy. It arises from a feeling that the government's agenda is not yet fully set, a...
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Agencies hold regional key
WITH a hint of irony, perhaps, the Dearing committee report, in its chapter on the local and regional roles of higher education, concluded that, compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, "in...