Simplified FP7 cash application called for
Europe's universities are seeking a simplified process for applications for research funding under the new Framework Seven research programme. The European Universities Association, in response to a...
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NZ to consult on comparison
Another attempt is to be made to publish an international comparison of university research quality, six months after the last one was blocked by New Zealand's High Court. The Tertiary Education...
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Minister fears power of private cash on research
Mosibudi Mangena, South Africa's Minister of Science and Technology, has warned that the rapid growth in the contract income of the country's nine research councils could be reaching a point where it...
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Politicians quit as transfer scandal erupts
Two Greek politicians were forced to resign within days of each other for seeking special treatment for their student children. The children of a minister and and an opposition spokesperson were...
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Tuition fees have variable effect on would-be students
Applications to Australian universities for 2005 have fallen sharply, but higher tuition fees due to be imposed at most institutions may not be to blame. Public universities in Western Australia have...
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French contest Bologna reforms
French universities' exclusive right to award masters diplomas to trainee lawyers could end in the move to the European degree structure under the Bologna Process, law faculty heads and teachers fear...
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US college costs race ahead of inflation rate
The cost of attending a public university in America has risen by more than triple the rate of inflation, driving a 43 per cent rise in one year in the number of students borrowing from private...
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Bring a brick to DIY university
A small community in Peru will begin building a university this week - one brick at a time. The municipality of Villa El Salvador, a shantytown in southern Lima, plans to build its first higher...
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Stanford
Stanford University has reaped a windfall of $334 million (£180 million) after the flotation of Google in August. The web search engine was developed by two of the university's students almost ten...
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Luxembourg
François Biltgen, Luxembourg's Higher Education Minister, has announced the new vice-chancellor of the embryonic University of Luxembourg. Rolf Tarrach will take up his post this month.
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Montreal
McGill University has won a five-year legal battle with a former admissions director, Peggy Ann Sheppard, who sued the institution for C$1.4 million (£616,000). She had claimed wrongful dismissal for...
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Saratov
Researchers at Russia's Institute of Organic Synthesis Technologies, which until 1992 led the Soviet chemical weapons programme, have gone on hunger strike over salaries unpaid for more than a year.
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Jerusalem
Haifa University is standing by its decision to give David Radler, chairman of the Jerusalem Post , an honorary degree despite his involvement in the dispute between Lord Black and Hollinger...
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Madrid
Erasmus, the European Union's student exchange scheme, has been given the Prince of Asturia's Award - Spain's top honour for international cooperation.
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Collective efforts lift us all to the starry heights
Everyone everywhere gains by combining competition with collaboration in higher education, argues Charles Vest In its new ranking of the world's 200 best universities, The Times Higher found the top...