'Teaching research in danger'
Teaching as a research-based profession is in grave danger, education secretary Charles Clarke has been warned this week. The British Educational Research Association has written to Mr Clarke to...
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'We're serving Jesus - without the labels'
Where once university chaplains dealt solely with issues of religion, today they offer more general support to those of any or no faith. Olga Wojtas reports Bath University's Christmas carol service...
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'Cool' TV celeb helps with campus depression
A drug company is paying the star of a reality television show to give talks at US universities in a bid to deal with the growing problem of depression among students. MTV series The Real World,...
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Council forces Wits v-c to resign
Before Norma Reid Birley resigned as vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand, the university chair of council threatened her with dismissal and immediate ejection from the official...
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Task force to study sex-law teaching
The Association of Canadian Medical Colleges is to convene a task force to consider the impact of medical education on students' attitudes to sex with patients. A study in Ontario has suggested that...
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Fund will build Indian and UK scientific network
Collaboration in science and technology between India and Britain is to be enhanced by a joint fund that will enable scientists from the two countries to work in areas of common interest. Officials...
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Academe sizes up Spain's oil spill crisis
As oil from the tanker Prestige washes up on the coast of Galicia in Spain, universities are preparing to assess the damage to local ecosystems. Part of the palaeontology department of La Coruna...
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Christmas message
(Photograph) - In his traditional December address to Rome's students in St Peter's Square, the Pope spoke of the limits on temporal knowledge. 'Only God, with his omnipotence, controls the universe...
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French to set up tax breaks to boost R&
The French government is counting on the private sector to boost spending on research and development, and next year it will introduce tax breaks to innovatory companies and their investors. Industry...
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News in brief: Brussels
First calls for proposals under the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme were published this week. The European Commission has adopted detailed programmes for the research projects that it will...
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News in brief: Ottawa
Canada's supreme court has ruled against Harvard University in its long fight to win a Canadian patent for a genetically engineered mouse. The "oncomouse" has been patented in much of Europe, the US...
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News in brief: Paris
France has launched the first Francophone Virtual University of Medicine. It will be based at Lille-2 University, and will bring together 26 French medical faculties in a public-interest company,...
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News in brief: Brussels
All higher education students should study abroad for at least one term, preferably in a foreign language, and should gain a recognised language qualification at the end of their course, according to...
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Turkish MPs extend olive branch to expelled students
An amnesty for thousands of students is being pushed through the Turkish parliament. The amnesty covers students expelled for wearing a religious headscarf or signing petitions calling for Kurdish...
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Russia laments graduate exodus
Some 5 per cent of new Russian graduates - 100,000 over the past two years - are seeking jobs abroad, says Moscow State University rector Viktor Sadovnichiy. He warned a Unesco-sponsored...