Launch pad
At next week's UK Technology Week in Earl's Court, London, Sheffield Hallam University is launching a masters degree aimed at computer professionals. The MSc Enterprise Network Management course will...
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Brussels
Padraig Flynn, European commissioner for employment and social affairs, has urged the Italian government to resolve the dispute over the rights of foreign language lecturers in Italian universities...
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Boston
Dartmouth College in the United States has joined with Templeton College at Oxford and the HEC School of Management in Paris to offer a course on global business that will literally travel the world...
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When freshers fly the nest
Packing your child off on their first term of university can be an emotional business, as Harvey J. Kaye relates I entered this academic year in a new role - not as a student, not merely as a...
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Vice-chancellors unite to condemn funding policy
Higher education has little to look forward to if the conservative Howard government is re-elected when Australians go to the polls tomorrow. After slashing almost Aus$2 billion (Pounds 670 million)...
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Hollow victory for reading disability student
A United States court has sided with a student who claims she has a reading disability and should have been given extra time to complete the examination for her lawyer's licence. Marilyn Bartlett, a...
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Indonesian protesters back on the streets
Indonesia's students are back on the streets with a new slogan: bring down the price of rice and bring down new president B. J. Habibie. It is just four months since they helped topple President...
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Paris and research get priority for millennium
Expansion is over for France's universities. After a decade of rapid growth they face at least five years of stability. The emphasis will be on developing research and technology, and renovating...
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Phoenix takes a nosedive
Some of the gloss has rubbed off the University of Phoenix, the private university network seen as a threat to United States higher education. The university's parent company, Apollo Group Inc, has...
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Professors refuse to sign up to act
Serbian academics who refuse to accept legislation that has given the government day-to-day control of the universities are risking dismissal from their jobs. A new university act, introduced last...
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Fees rebellion by instalments
Israel's national student union this week intensified its campaign for lower tuition fees by calling on its members to rebel. Half-page advertisements in all the leading newspapers encouraged...
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Leiden drops state connection in protest at cash cuts
Dutch universities are preparing to face more cuts from the new government. Heads of many universities fear for their future under education minister Loek Hermans, who is expected to carry out a...
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Reviews
Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet Edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret McLaughlin, and Sheizaf Rafaeli published by AAAI Press/MIT Pres, 320pp, Pounds 29.50, ISBN 0 262 69206 6 The...
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The self-taught star
Steve Grand got only two A levels but enjoyed crystallising DNA and "running amok with radioactivity" in the school science labs. The self-taught biologist decided to create a real ecosystem within a...
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Help for science women
An online mentoring scheme in the United States could help reduce the number of women students who drop out of engineering and science courses. MentorNet aims to link 5,000 female students with...