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AFRICA: New initiative to boost science
27 July 2008
Three networks of universities in sub-Saharan Africa have been named as the first to benefit from a new partnership initiative to build scientific capacity in Africa. The Regional Initiative in Science and Education, RISE, will provide grants – each worth $800,000 – over two-and-a-half years to the three networks which are based in South Africa, Malawi and Tanzania but also involve universities in eight African countries.

EUROPE: Higher education’s global role
27 July 2008, Alan Osborn
As a demonstration of how the top higher education people from across the world can meet, debate, agree and disagree without ever losing sight of their common goals as academic leaders, you would find it hard to better the four-yearly conference of the UNESCO-based International Association of Universities.

FRANCE: Big budget increases – and big job cuts
27 July 2008, Jane Marshall
Academics and researchers reacted with alarm to an announcement by French Higher Education and Research Minister Val