Tough task ranking Asia's best
INMAY, the popular magazine Asiaweek in Hong Kong offered "the first listing of Asia's 50 best universities". The front cover published a photo of Tokyo University, listed as number one. Number two...
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Amsterdam set to boost exchanges
THE FREE movement of students and staff across Europe is likely to be boosted by next week's Amsterdam summit when the European Union finalises a new treaty to promote integration among member states...
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Music madness: student Jessica Padden plays viola at the Mappin Art Gallery
(Photograph) - Music madness: student Jessica Padden plays viola at the Mappin Art Gallery, at a concert organised as part of the University of Sheffield Summer Music Festival, 'Music for Mid-summer'.
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Entente is not so cordial
A FLAGSHIP postgraduate student exchange between France and the United Kingdom has met with apparent lack of interest among British students. The Entente Cordiale scheme dates from the 1995 Franco-...
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Mars probe may hinder science
GROUND-BREAKING space projects planned by the European Space Agency could suffer if the agency also launches a mission to Mars, scientists claim. ESA, which faces a cut this year of about 3 per cent...
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Sir Ron looks to blue chips
A DOZEN top companies have been asked by Sir Ron Dearing to take part in a novel loan scheme to fund expensive university laboratory kit and maintenance. Sir Ron, whose inquiry into higher education...
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Malaysian PM appeals for cyber city partners
ACADEMICS are lagging behind business in taking up the opportunities offered by Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). During his visit to the United Kingdom last month, Malaysia's prime...
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Two more choose smart card
Edinburgh and Nottingham universities are following the lead of Exeter and York in launching a smart card as a move to the cashless campus. The card, which uses the Mondex electronic payment system,...
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Watchdogs lose French court battle to ban English on Web site
Georgia Tech Lorraine, the European platform of the Georgia Institute of Technology, this week won a court case after two French watchdog bodies filed a suit alleging it had violated French law by...
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Trek through space to discover the wholly trinity
3-D photography is the Holy Grail for computer graphics researchers. Toby Howard assesses how far they have come and where they plan to go It is gratifying when undergraduates come to the front at...
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Now is the time for radical action
Skill shortages are here again. Employers are whingeing about lack of suitable staff. There is talk again of recruiting overseas. Salaries are going up faster than inflation. Poaching is back in...
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Overheads must be paid for
FUNDING councils, research councils, companies, charities: they all agree that research needs expensive equipment. They part company, however, on who should provide it. The urgency of this issue,...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a researcher into dark times: "'Beth Hamishpath' - the House of Justice: these words shouted by the...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Charities Dr W. Siebert, Pounds ,571 from Joseph Rowntree Foundation (company recruitment policies - implications for unskilled workers); Mr J. Visser, Pounds 45,167 from...
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Honorary degrees
University of Bristol DLit: Basil Davidson, veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, author and historian University of Aberdeen LLD: Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere, professor and director of research at the...