Kenya's dying universities
Scores of students sit daily outside the Gandhi Memorial Library at the main campus of the University of Nairobi hawking stationery, textbooks and other academic paraphernalia which they have bought...
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Malaysia and US sign deal
Malaysia and the United States have signed a new agreement for the re-establishment of the Malaysian-American Commission for Educational Exchange to improve educational programmes between the two...
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Anti-PC fight-back hits courts
Peter Maas is a Cornell University professor trapped, he claims, in a Kafkaesque web of political correctness. His hugs, kisses and gifts to students were twisted into a sex harassment case,...
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More trainee teachers cut despite shortfall threat
Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 5,000 teachers within five years following savage cuts to faculty of education enrolments that have reduced the supply of new teachers to dangerously low...
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Tropical face paints fight cancer
Hundreds of natural chemicals that could protect the skin from damaging ultraviolet rays have gone unnoticed by Western scientists because they only grow in the tropics, the British Association heard...
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Thinking a cure for panic
Cognitive therapy can cure 90 per cent of panic attacks, the British Association also heard. The therapy is much more successful than drug therapy, which works in 50 per cent of cases and has a far...
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Lizards grow alone
If a planet like earth exists elsewhere it would probably have the same species on it, the British Association heard. Evolutionary biologist Paul Harvey, of Oxford University, said that DNA testing...
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Coal packs poisonous punch
Pollution from Chinese coal-fired power stations is comparable to that produced by volcanic eruptions, the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Newcastle University heard last week....
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Name your religion request in Ulster
Students at Further Education colleges in Northern Ireland are being asked to reveal their religion when applying for courses. Managers at the colleges say they are only implementing a government...
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Quake students head for hills of Wales
Twenty Japanese students, whose studies were severely disrupted by the Kobe earthquake, will arrive in Wales later this month to take up university places in the principality. The five postgraduate...
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Tory tussle on savings
Education and Employment and the Treasury emerged in a leaked confidential Whitehall paper last week. The draft paper prepared for Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment,...
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All stressed up to go, go, go
Stress is good for you, former higher education minister Tim Boswell told the massed ranks of Britain's academic external relations professionals. Asked for his tips on stress management, Mr Boswell...
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Monk building for future success
Assessors from the Royal Institute of British Architects will step into the nerve centre of a new Pounds 2 million teaching complex at Luton University next July to assess the final year's work of a...
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Distance is Wye's objective
Few students of Wye College will ever set foot in the small Kent village of that name in future. The reason is that the agricultural college of the University of London plans to double student...
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Dundee's pastoral care
The University of Abertay Dundee is validating a certificate of pastoral ministry aimed at lay people working for the church in the Roman Catholic dioceses of Dunkeld, Galloway and Motherwell....