Verona axes 23 foreign lecturers in status row
Twenty-three foreign lecturers at the University of Verona have been sacked for refusing to move to the university's linguistic centre as technical staff. The dispute dates back to 1988 and centres...
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Verdant pastures with a premium attached
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Coup for 'coffee jar' monitor
British scientists hope to use data from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland last week to predict volcanic hyperactivity months before an eruption. For the team from the University of Durham, the...
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Jesus College, Cambridge
(Photograph) - The new library at Jesus College, Cambridge offers a vision of the digital library as a haven of quiet study and peaceful order amid the chaos and frenetic pace of the Internet. The...
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Doctors have a good feel
Trainee doctors are to experience the ups and downs of dealing with patients earlier following complaints that their degrees are too theoretical. New medical students at Liverpool University will...
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Enrolment overrides government capping
The number of students in higher education has grown considerably despite the Government cap on university intakes, according to the latest statistics. The Higher Education Statistics Agency Data...
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Plant fibres find a home in industry
Plant-based products could come out of the laboratory and into industry if a collaborative research project, part supported by the Government's Technology Foresight programme, is successful. The...
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Security agents harass strikers
Nigerian security agents are harassing lecturers and leaders of their banned union in an attempt to break a strike that closed the country's 38 universities. Assisi Assobie, national president of the...
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Middle age cash spread
I am all in favour of academic freedom and democracy and frequently tell my elders and betters they are wrong. But G. R. Evans (THES, September ) should not delude herself. The principal reason why...
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. . .while Welsh rocket
Enrolments in Welsh further education rose by 9.8 per cent over 1994/95 levels, the Further Education Funding Council for Wales 1995/96 annual report shows.
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Hot spot: Bardhabunga volcano
(Photograph) - Hot spot: Durham scientists hope to gather the best information ever on an eruption from a monitoring device placed two kilometres from Bardhabunga volcano just weeks before it erupted...
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Work study
The Department of Trade and Industry will pay half the cost of a Pounds 60,000 study at the University of Wales, Swansea which aims to support teleworkers. Web pages will provide information and...
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Thesis
With its growing Databank section, our Internet service may have the information you seek. Readers of this Libraries edition of Multimedia, for example, can find the most recent league table of...
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Pacific link
The World Wide Web Consortium, which tries to advance web technology and standards without automatically following Netscape or Microsoft, now has a third base at Keio University near Tokyo. The...
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In search of the perfect image
The ambitious US plan to build a universal digital library has already produced some useful spin-offs. We are two years into the four-year Digital Library Initiative, a $24 million research programme...