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For Oxford don Sir John Krebs, the government's new food czar and chair of a high-profile conference this week on GM food, the transition from an academic institution into government has been smooth...
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Beirut
University students in Beirut have protested against the bombing of Lebanon by Israeli planes. Protests took place in front of the United States embassy, forcing African students in the city to seek...
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On the move
Sir Robert May, chief scientific adviser to the government, has been nominated for the office of president of the Royal Society by the Royal Society's council. If successful in April's election, he...
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Vaneeta-marie D'Andrea
Correction: Vaneeta-marie D'Andrea, director of educational development at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, has been selected as a Carnegie scholar of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of...
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Eyewitness
Three Jewish and three Catholic scholars have begun examining 11 volumes of Vatican documents from World War II to assess the role of Pius XII and the Holy See during the Holocaust. Although they are...
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Letting tigers off the leash
Singapore wants 'thinking schools' for a 'learning nation', but it won't set education free, says Tony Tysome Singapore's name belies a split personality: derived from the Sanskrit Singa pura, it...
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Rock solid
(Photograph) - Rock solid: police gather under the statue of Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos to defend the parliament building from technical college students protesting against a court...
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Philosophical element added to periodic tables
PARIS Scientific and medical studies in France will gain an ethical dimension with the introduction of a compulsory course in the philosophy of science. Education minister Claude Allegre has ordered...
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French row over student poverty
PARIS The French education ministry has rejected a claim that 100,000 students may be living in poverty. The report, commissioned by the ministry itself, is about the workings of the students' social...
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Soros funds online journal
PRAGUE George Soros's Internet Project has given a new lease of life to post communist Europe's only pan-regional journal of social and political analysis, Transitions. Transitions Online was...
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Lannavaara
A degree-level course in gemmology will be offered next year at Lannavaara, northern Sweden, a mining town and gem centre with fewer than 100 inhabitants. It will be northern Europe's first gemmology...
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Jerusalem
Israeli biologists and zoologists have written to ministers and members of the Knesset (parliament) attacking Thai foreign workers for endangering Israeli wildlife. In a letter to the ministries of...
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Rio de Janeiro
The federal university in Rio de Janeiro is involved in a tug-of-war with the education minister over funds to improve poor classroom facilities. The university sought funding after the ministry...
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'Chief of structure' quits over new age of corporate speak
ROME A professor of Anglo-American literature at Venice University has announced he will abandon teaching after 42 years because he is baffled by the new wave of corporate-bureaucratic terminology...
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Sheffield Hallam University
(Photograph) - Student Chris Tann and vice-chancellor Diana Green demonstrate how some academics at Sheffield Hallam University have given up their offices in favour of a temporary workstation in a...