Bright future in dark matter
There is ample evidence to suggest that physics as a scientific discipline has been in relative decline for several years. Although a problem not only in the United Kingdom - similar trends are...
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Confusion as centre holds
Gordon F. Sander reports on a Social Democrat's attempt to innovate while turning back the tide of market reform. A year after replacing a Conservative government which extensively decentralised...
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Private plans stymied by ministers
Mr Tham has also drawn criticism by effectively undermining the privatisation of one higher education institution by preventing it from buying the deeds to its land. The government's thwarting of the...
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South African quality quest
South Africa's Committee of University Principals is to establish a quality promotion unit along the lines of Britain's Higher Education Quality Council to monitor and advise on academic standards....
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Too many PhDs spoil economic broth in US
Universities are producing about 25 per cent more PhDs in science and engineering than the United States economy needs, according to a study by the Rand Corporation and the Institute for Higher...
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Dial-a-course by touch phone cuts paperwork
For the first time in Australia, and possibly the world, students seeking a university place in Victoria will apply to the state Tertiary Admissions Centre by punching in numbers on a telephone,...
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Labor sets equity goal
The Australian Labor government's efforts to provide greater access to university for socially and economically disadvantaged students appear to have failed. Since taking office in 1983, the...
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Spanish academics want more change
Despite being described by Spain's national assessment body as "satisfactory", some academics believe further reforms are needed in the country's university entrance examinations. Some changes were...
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Professor wins Euro ruling
David Petrie is celebrating a European Parliament victory after battling for more than a decade for pay and conditions parity between Italian academics and foreign language teachers in Italy. He has...
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German doctors reject access students
Germany's plans to give nurses the chance to train to become doctors has led to a trade of insults between politicians and doctors. Education minister Jurgen Ruttgers has called for a change in...
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Danes unveil research plan
Danish research should in future concentrate on the environment, health, information technology, the social sciences, the arts and other areas that will ensure sustainable development based on...
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Green team tackle waste dilemma
Two research councils have joined forces to launch a Pounds 7.5 million research programme on waste and pollution management. The initiative by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
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Mersey beat tunes in to Big Easy boom
The unique relationship between music and the city is to be explored in a study of New Orleans and Liverpool, officially twinned in 1988, by the Institute of Popular Music at Liverpool University....
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Mutant oil palms come to aid of margarine and soap industries
The margarine and soap industries could benefit from British research into improving techniques for the harvesting of oil palm fruits in Malaysia and South East Asia. Researchers at the Open...
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Water rations for the almond
Spanish researchers have devised a method of boosting almond harvests by depriving the trees of water during the dry summer. This discovery, which comes as Spanish agriculture is wilting under the...