Entrepreneurial leg-up
The UK's eight research councils have launched a competition to find the best business ideas from researchers in science and the arts. The winners will receive up to £25,000. www.rcuk.ac.uk/...
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£100m clinical booster
Up to 200 senior lectureships will be funded by a £100 million award scheme to raise the number of qualified clinical specialists entering medical research and education. The initiative, by the...
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Guide steers campuses through moral mazes
British academics have helped to create the world's first ethics guide for universities. Ethics Matters , which is aimed at lecturers, professors and university managers, will be sent free to vice-...
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India in hot pursuit of US elite
Our peer review of the world's top technology universities shows that in 2004, the high praise for the Indian Institutes of Technology was no fluke. Up to third position in 2005 from fourth place...
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Invention and Reinvention: forward-looking MIT goes to the ends of universe for science and fun
The entrepreneurial scholars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have invented wonders from the alcove hologram to artificial skin, writes Jon Marcus in Boston. But MIT also continues to...
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Private colleges get loans boost
The number of Australian private higher education institutions is increasing rapidly as the federal Government extends its deferred loan system to cover their students. Universities can offer...
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Call for Russian 'Russell Group'
Russia needs an elite group of universities to maintain high standards as it moves to greater integration with Europe, according to Viktor Sadovichny, rector of Moscow State University. Professor...
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Opus Dei takes on old guard
New strands of Catholicism are challenging Rome's traditional centres of scholarship in theology, philosophy and canon law. Universities run by Opus Dei, founded in 1928 in Spain, and the...
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'Fun czar' to tickle Harvard
Although Harvard University consistently tops the world's academic league tables, it believes that there is one aspect of its student experience that could be improved - fun. It has hired a recent...
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France to improve campus life
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has announced measures to improve university living and working conditions in an effort to placate irate students and teachers. He has promised to spend...
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Foreign students flock to study in SA
A decade after a return to democracy and the end of the academic boycott, South Africa has made its mark in the competitive international student market. "Universities have done exceptionally well in...
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Tirana
Albania's new government has closed three universities after accusing the previous administration of "opening universities like henhouses", without sufficient financial resources or staff. The...
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Geelong
Deakin University ordered its law journal not to publish the paper Rethinking the White Australia Policy by Andrew Fraser, a law lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia, after legal advice...
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Cotonou
University teachers in Benin and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are on strike over a refusal to increase salaries, and the Government's failure to pay the pensions of retired staff.
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Dhaka
Five people were hurt when two bombs were thrown at a student demonstration at Dhaka University in Bangladesh. Pro-government student leaders denied they were responsible for the attack.