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From Zimbabwe, but a London writer

Writer Brian Chikwava talks to the University Post about his latest novel

Neurologist: Test students for smart drugs

British universities ought to consider random dope tests to combat the growing problem of student use of mental enhancement drugs, says behavioural neuroscientist

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Brain doping does not work

EU wants education to be growth engine

While education in Europe has seen layoffs, cutbacks and declining teaching standards, the EU paradoxically wishes to boost its economy by focussing on university funding in 2010

Border controls to keep bogus students out

Students hoping to win a university spot in the English-speaking world might be out of luck. Both Australia, the UK and the USA have tightened visa regulations

Doctors in warzones

Global response 2010, a conference on violent conflict and health, held its closing session today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The first of its kind, the conference gathered experts from fields relating to healthcare and humanitarian efforts in warzones, as well as eyewitnesses from Rwanda, Serbia, Sudan and Gaza

Disaster Management students to help in Haiti

Three University of Copenhagen students will use their expertise in Disaster Management in the aid efforts following Tuesday's catastrophic earthquake in Haiti

Students in Zimbabwe pay tuition with cows, goats

Extreme currency shortage forces students to barter food, fuel and other goods to pay tuition

Swedish academics protest fees for internationals

Pro-rectors from top Swedish universities have called on the Swedish government to delay plans to introduce fees for foreign students

India and Denmark to talk food

The Banares Hindu University (BHU) in India is to collaborate with the University of Copenhagen. Food is on the menu

Massive student protests in Germany and Austria

University fees, declining standards and oversubscribed courses have sparked a month of student demonstrations and sit-ins in Switzerland, Austria and Germany

UK universities bail students out

As a result of delays to loans and grants, 75 percent of British universities have been forced to bail out students with emergency cash

University funding in Europe is getting worse

The European University Association has been keeping tabs on the funding and development for higher education. It does not look good

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Concern over Latvian university budget cuts

US university defies porn ban

The University of Maryland has decided to defy a state ban on the screening of obscene materials on campus. This could jeopardize state funding

Finns say No to Danish-style university law

A planned Finnish university management reform based on the Danish model, has been dropped

Concern over Latvian university budget cuts

European university association representatives to meet Latvian prime minister today Tuesday to argue against 50 pct. cutbacks

God is sabotaging the Large Hadron Collider

Is the CERN experiment LHC’s purpose so »abhorrent to nature« that it is being sabotaged by its own future? University of Copenhagen physicist blames ‘backward causation’ for the collider’s teething troubles