On the move
Philip Tasker, 48, pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and a fellow of the Institute of Physics and Royal Society of Chemistry, will be De Montfort's next vice-chancellor and chief...
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David Sainsbury, made a minister in the Department of Trade and Industry by prime minister Tony Blair in April, created life peer Lord Sainsbury of Turville last year, and now chairman of the...
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Salzburg
Salzburg University music school, the Mozarteum, has been ordered to close. Science and research minister Caspar Einem announced the closure following a report revealing that cancer-inducing...
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Bologna
Twenty-eight foreign-language lecturers sacked 13 months ago by the University of Bologna for refusing to sign a new contract downgrading their status to that of technicians have began work again...
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Melbourne
Australia's newly re-elected prime minister John Howard has reappointed right-wing former political science professor David Kemp to head a truncated Department of Education, Training and Youth...
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Beijing
The Chinese government has approved strategy and funding for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific research body, to become the national natural science and high-tech...
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Durban
South African astronomers are over the moon about the government's approval of funding for a powerful new telescope, said Bob Stobie, director of the South African Astronomical Observatory. The...
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Eye witness
Quebec, the Canadian province that has already held unsuccessful referendums on secession in 1980 and 1995, recently announced it would hold a third vote but only under "winning conditions". While...
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Flagship university is in danger of floundering
Christiana Mbengo passed her baccalaureat with flying colours. But when her civil servant father and petty trader mother told her that lean times meant her only chance of a university education was...
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Pretoria tempts top African students
A scheme to attract top African students to universities in South Africa "and encourage student mobility on the continent generally" will begin next year, further swelling the country's rapidly...
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Tanzanian U-turn in farming
Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania is to be the first state university in East Africa to introduce demand-driven degrees. It also plans to scrap courses that are not market-oriented and...
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Berlinguer bows out of ministry
Luigi Berlinguer, the Italian university and schools minister who spearheaded a radical reform of Italy's higher education system, is no longer university and research minister following a government...
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Criminals put an end to campus asylum
Criminal activity on the campus of Thessaloniki University has reached such proportions that the senate committee has decided to allow the police to enter the premises after hours. Students and...
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State scientists fear loss of power
Plans to reform France's state research bodies have caused a furore among top scientists. They fear losing autonomy by having to cooperate more closely with the universities. Claude Allegre, minister...
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Violent start for Islam centre
The official opening of the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World at Leiden University erupted into violence and chaos last week. About 200 Iranian demonstrators gathered outside the...