Scientists seek share of tax bill
Italian taxpayers unable to choose between church and state may be given a third option when they complete their tax returns. Existing tax law allows them to allocate 0.8 per cent of their direct tax...
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Deacon seeks a virtual saint
Russia's Orthodox clerics tend to view the internet as a potential weapon of Satan, but Andrey Kurayev, who is also a lecturer at Moscow State University, wants to find the web a patron saint. Mr...
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Moore trouble
The US Federal Elections Commission is investigating allegations that 12 universities broke the rules governing electoral campaigning by hosting filmmaker Michael Moore (pictured) and his anti-Bush...
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Brazil boosts online study
Brazil plans a massive expansion of distance learning in 2005 to address a teacher shortage and make education more accessible. The Government plans to spend R$20 million (£2.6 million) on distance-...
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Agency closes overseas offices
Australia's main foreign student recruitment agency is to abandon non-profitable markets and consolidate its activities in the main source countries. Facing its third loss-making year, IDP Education...
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Minister chastised over loans
Student protests over proposals to increase the cost of government-backed loans have earned the Kazakh education minister a presidential dressing-down and have cost his deputy her job. Plans...
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Paris
Four containers packed with laboratory equipment, reference books and student textbooks valued at $6 million (£3.08 million) are due to arrive in Iraq by the end of the month as part of an...
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Brussels
The European Union and Israel are to negotiate a higher education agreement under a draft general action plan under discussion between Tel Aviv and Brussels. Talks will aim at synchronising EU and...
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Canberra
The Australian National University is to sue insurers to gain higher compensation after a bushfire destroyed much of its Mt Stromlo Observatory almost two years ago. Negotiations with insurers have...
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Benin
More than 1,500 students at the Benin University, many in their final year, have been expelled over the past two weeks in a clampdown on forged school leaving certificates and other irregularities.
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Washington DC
Female professors at US universities earn about 88 per cent of their male colleagues' salaries, according to a survey by the American Association of University Professors. The disparity is wider at...
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Kabul
Afghan president Hamid Karzai is to honour a constitutional commitment that all members of his new Cabinet will have to hold a university degree, aides said. The decision means that several current...
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The Rime of the Ancyent Lecturere
Take heed, 'tis a wretched don who dare sticketh his head above th' parapet, laments Steve Hawley (with apologies to Coleridge) 1 It is an Ancyent Lecturere And he teacheth one till three "By thy...
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Don's diary: Christmas reflections
Monday In the uneventful life of a university lecturer, the smallest victories and defeats assume epic qualities. This would explain the peculiar feeling of deflation I experience when I spot a...
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Wetting the new arrival's head
The departure of Charles Clarke and the arrival of Ruth Kelly at the Department for Education and Skills appears to have been a champagne moment for some civil servants. Within hours of Ms Kelly's...