Cash crisis threat to universities
University chancellors have failed to convince the Greek government of the seriousness of the problems facing higher education. To make matters worse the government has once more reneged on its...
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Single-sex college gains support
A court challenge by the Clinton administration to the all-male Virginia Military Institute threatens the very existence of single-sex colleges in the United States, its opponents say. And the...
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Multi-nation campus for Venice
An ambitious plan to create a multinational university campus on an island in the Venice lagoon is about to become a reality. Five universities - two Venetian, one Spanish, one German and one...
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Charity probe shakes research
France's biggest public research body, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, has been shaken by revelations of malpractice by the country's cancer charity ARC. The scandal is expected to...
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Talks leave colleges in cold
While finance ministers from Canada's ten provinces met last month with the federal government to discuss how to divide up ever-diminishing federal funds, universities and other post-secondary...
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Nurses from Oz brought to book
Student nurses at university in Queensland will be required to study great works of literature to expose them to emotions they will confront when they go into clinics or hospitals. Novels such as...
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Innovation science gets cash injection
Australian higher education will be one of the major beneficiaries of a federal government scheme to boost national innovation developments. Under plans announced by Australian prime minister Paul...
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Courses count drop-outs down under
Four in every ten students in Australia are significantly less successful in their first year at university than they were in their final year at school and up to half drop out of some courses. The...
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Research fears unfounded
Olga Wojtas reports from the ever-expanding world of geographers at the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers annual conference in Strathclyde. Research councils are keen to...
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Sign of the times
(Photograph) - Sign of the times: Strathclyde University research student Neil McInroy has been investigating the impact of urban change on local communities. Although local people feel that streets...
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Gaelic revival myth scotched by student
A Strathclyde University research student has thrown cold water over the recent outpouring of enthusiasm about a Gaelic revival. The Scottish Office Education Department, says Gaelic language and...
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Dissent down on la ferme
Views of traditional farming in rural France are bound up with family values which keep women in a subordinate role, according to Lise Saugeres of the Rural Geography Studies Group. Ms Saugeres, a...
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Common core for subject must be resisted
Geography must resist pressures for a common core curriculum in higher education, according to Michael Bradford, senior lecturer at Manchester University. Dr Bradford said that a national curriculum...
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Literary odyssey of Russian
Research is something of a heroic activity in Russia, according to Ludmila Rzhanskaya of the Gorkii Institute of World Literature in Moscow. Many research institutes have closed in the past five or...
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Scots do not know dentistry drill
Many people in deprived areas distrust dentists and are deterred from buying toothpaste and toothbrushes because of the cost, according to an Edinburgh University survey. The report from Edinburgh's...