posted: 7th February 2010.
The European Union is planning to publish a worldwide ranking of universities that it is hoping to rival the major international global league tables. The aim of the publication will be to boost th...
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posted: 7th February 2010.
A team of UK researchers at Leicester will receive a generous funding from the EU to “develop a range of ionic liquid solvents to provide safe, non-toxic alternatives top harmful solutions used in i...
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posted: 18th January 2010.
Inspired by the efforts in Finland, South Korea and Singapore to make teaching a “high prestige position”, the Conservative party of the UK plans to make teaching a “brazenly elitist profession”. U...
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posted: 17th January 2010.
Indonesia’s National Board for Higher Education Accreditation is determined to clean up their higher education sector. A 2012 target of getting rid of unaccredited undergraduate courses has been ...
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posted: 5th January 2010.
The Central African country of Cameroon is putting its scientific brain drain in reverse by increasing the salaries of university academics. Salaries have increased for all levels of academics. FU...
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posted: 15th December 2009.
Quoting research made by economists, The Telegraph’s Jon Swaine writes that Britain has ‘lost its ability to attract the best scientists and its universities must pay academics more to reverse the b...
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