`I think we went too fast'
"I think we went too fast," says Jordi Berrio, vice rector of academic affairs at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. This modern campus university of 34,000 students was one of the first to...
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Student loans fraud inquiry
The Serious Fraud Office has been called in by New Zealand's education ministry to investigate the theft of up to NZ$750,000 (Pounds 306,000) in student loans. The referral came after preliminary...
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Court imposes black policy
Mississippi has been ordered to spend $35 million on its historically black universities by a federal judge who has said the state may not close one of its three black colleges as planned, writes...
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Try to see it my way
Elona Kibler believes that the new animosity between blacks and Jews can be attributed partly to the way in which American Jewry has changed. Where once Jews were seen as an oppressed minority - like...
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Russians count brains drained
Russia's counter-intelligence service is monitoring the extent of the academic brain drain just as the Academy of Sciences is pleading with government to recognise its financial crisis. The lack of...
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Tuition fees for Hungarians
Hungarian students have staged simultaneous nationwide street protests at government plans to introduce tuition fees of 2,000 forints (Pounds 11) a month from September this year. About 140,000 full-...
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Sciences make their mark
Industry in the former East Germany is struggling, unemployment has rocketed and the social fabric is stretched to breaking point - but Bonn can claim that the costly and painful measures imposed on...
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Patent for torch that sees cancer
A "torch" that can be shone at body organs to see whether they have cancerous growths has just been patented, the Institute of Physics heard this week. The technique, known as optical biopsy, means...
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Tranquil tea from the tropics
Strathclyde University scientists are helping to discover whether herbal teas used as sedatives in Latin America could lead to a new type of tranquilliser. The Strathclyde Institute for Drug Research...
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Skin survives test of time
The skin properties of a man discovered in an Alpine glacier in 1991 have remained virtually intact for five millennia, Bradford University pharmacists have discovered. The scientists have examined...
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Rough ride for warship design
British naval sailors of the early 19th century endured "living hell" because the design of their warships meant they were buffeted by the smallest wave, Plymouth University researchers have...
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