London, June 17 (ANI): There could be as many as 2,000 privately funded 'fake' colleges in the UK, allowing tens of thousands of bogus students in to the country, it has emerged. read more >>

It's a profession to die for and it's called chocology. The person involved here not only becomes a scientist who "studies chocolates seriously" but also gets invited by people across the world to taste chocolates, give sugges tions and talks about the "positive aspects" of these divine desserts that makes people of all ages go weak in their knees. read more >>

It seems Britain's residents are fleeing the country. Latest statistics from the Office of National Statistics say that once every three minutes, a British resident left the country to settle overseas in 2006. The exodus is being compared to the mass exodus after World War I; and meanwhile, the numbers have put a crimp into the rising crescendo of an anti-immigrant diatribe that's been grabbing headline attention in the recent past. read more >>

A British mathematician has solved a 140-year-old maths problem. The breakthrough relates to the field of conformal mapping, a key theoretical tool used by mathematicians, engineers and scientists to translate information from a complicated shape to a simpler circular shape so that it is easier to analyse. read more >>

Schools and universities could soon be facing a different kind of drug problem: a rise in students taking brain-enhancing pills to boost their exam results. read more >>

Some western commentators have begun to describe India as an education superpower, whose kajillion university graduates will soon overrun the world taking away jobs from hapless Americans. read more >>

There is good news for thousands of Indians studying in Australia as changes to the visa system, coming into effect Saturday, will give them automatic right to work in the country. read more >>

How extraordinary it is to rank universities by the social class of their students, as the Government's Higher Education Statistics Agency did yesterday. By all means classify them by their intellectual standards, because that is the point of universities.
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''SEVENTEEN universities were shown the red card yesterday because they were not sufficiently socially "inclusive" and another 12 were told they were at risk of being financially penalized. read more >>

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