Contribution to the knowledge economy
(Photograph) - Design graduate Nicholas White from the University of Teesside with a scooter he designed as part of his final work. Photograph by NORTH NEWS
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Last week in The THES. Frank Furedi suggested ways to tackle internet plagiarism among students. * Mark Griffiths, Bob Rotheram, Roger Hopkins Burke, Richard Wood, Mark Davies, Andy Sutton, Hugh...
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Kano
A Libyan delegation visiting the ancient city of Kano in Nigeria signed an agreement to build an Islamic university there at a cost of about $300 million (Pounds 200 million). Nigerian federal...
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Oz reaps benefit of overseas interest
Australian universities earned almost A$800 million (Pounds 320 million) last year from fees paid by foreign students, who also spent another A$770 million on goods and services. More than 84,000...
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Terrorist colleges rife, says leader
Some Islamic schools and colleges in Russia are turning into breeding grounds for terrorism, according to the supreme mufti (Muslim leader) of Russia and the European members of the Commonwealth of...
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Swedish job falls foul of EU rules
Sweden's University of Gothenburg is under pressure to appoint a new professor of hydrospheric sciences after the European Court of Justice found that employment laws insisting on positive...
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'Golden nation' relegates tradition of tolerance and respect
The Dutch are becoming less tolerant, according to a social psychologist at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. Jan Janssens claims that parental pressure on children to express autonomous behaviour...
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President aligns with faculty on elections
Turkey's president has plunged the country's 22 state universities into chaos by rejecting all the rectoral candidates proposed by the higher education authority (Yok) in a move that implicitly...
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Madrid and Barcelona vie to be the first to go virtual
Two Spanish universities have separately announced within days of each other that they intend to be the first to offer virtual university courses in Spanish. The timing of the statements reveals...
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Silicon Glen gets one step nearer
Duncan McLaren, a first-class honours graduate from Heriot-Watt University, is being sponsored by chip-design giant Cadence to join a unique engineering doctorate programme at the Institute for...
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Solar Sailor is making waves down under
It might be hard to compete with the spectacular sights of Sydney Harbour, but a new ferry that hit the water this month to transport tourists past the Opera House and under the famous bridge is...
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Coshep lauds value of Scottish research
Kymata, a spin-off company from Glasgow University, could ease the global communications traffic jam and bring down costs. Its work on planar optoelectronics has produced a system that can "funnel"...
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Business move
Work has started on the Open University Business School's prestigious new home, and it coincides with the release of a ROMcard that gives a multimedia view of the OUBS. The OUBS ROMcard looks like a...
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RSA opportunity
A Pounds ,000 fellowship has been set up in memory of Dick Onians, the late chairman of the Royal Society for the Arts. The aim is to give an opportunity to someone to take time out to develop an...
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Space winners
Two University of Sussex students have won cash awards for their computer science final-year projects, sponsored by Searchspace, an intelligent systems for enterprise automation company. The winner...