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Oxbridge leaves US finest trailing
While the UK comes top in science, no nation takes a definitive lead in technology. Martin Ince reports. Cambridge and Oxford emerge as the first and second highest ranked science universities in the...
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Sars travel warning
Students from Hong Kong, southern China and parts of Southeast Asia have been warned not to return home for the Easter break in an effort to prevent their contracting the deadly severe acute...
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Commission Agenda Entry: Tuesday, 28 March: Encouraging more research into the prevention of blindness
Brussels, 20 Mar 2006 The News: With the projected increase in world population and an increase in life expectancy, the number of blind people in the world is likely to rise to more than 75 million...
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Soas disrupted by protest over loss of two librarians
London's School of Oriental and African Studies faced severe disruption this week after the escalation of a protest about the redundancies of two specialist librarians. The school confirmed that 18...
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Joint project a first
An Australian state government has negotiated a deal to establish the country's first branch campus of an American university. South Australia's Labor Premier, Mike Rann, last week signed an...
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Engineering industry chief on boosting European research and innovation
Brussels, 29 Sep 2006 Last year, Orgalime, the European Engineering Industries Association, elected Edward Krubasik as its President. Professor Krubasik has a strong background in research (he has a...
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A universal soldier against all flu strains? Researchers seek a vaccine to target the stable M2e protein which has been common to flu viruses since the first one was isolated in 1933
Brussels, Feb 2006 One way to beat viruses is to knock them out with antiviral drugs. Another is to vaccinate against them beforehand. While this may work for some, such as measles and mumps, others...
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Call for teacher training specialist institutions
Australia's deans of education have called on the federal Government to establish special universities to focus on training schoolteachers. In recent years, two thirds of faculties of education have...
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Bamboo curtain lifts to reveal a much brighter future
The Changing Face of China
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To save the Earth, call me. Al
An Inconvenient Truth
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EU risks brain drain if it fails to adopt new approach on innovation, Finnish State Secretary for Trade and Industry Paasivirta tells CoR Bureau
Brussels, 10 July 2006 Europe risks a “brain drain” to Asia and America unless it makes innovation a priority and invests more in education, research and business knowledge,...
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Commission Agenda Entry: Mon 19th June – Wed 21st June: Aerodays marking advancements in research
Brussels, 02 Jun 2006 The news: The fifth Community Aeronautics Days event is to take place in Vienna. With up to 1,000 participants expected, this is a key event for European research and technology...
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Today's news
Harvard abandons fast-track entry that favours elite Harvard University is to drop a controversial fast-track admission system for elite students in an attempt to open up America’s top colleges to...
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Freedom fears 'not an issue'
An Australian university has disputed claims that concerns over academic freedom threaten Warwick University's plans for a campus in Singapore. Warwick and the University of New South Wales were...