Don's Diary
Aste bat (week one) Bang! The Oxford University language race is afoot. I find myself scurrying home with Colloquial Basque clutched in my hand, good intentions and enthusiasm. Decide to draw up a...
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World view: Country in hurry speeds up
Mexico hopes to swell its student population by 1 million over five years. Tony Tysome asks if it can succeed. Mexican higher education has reached a point where it can no longer afford to stand...
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World watch
Voronezh United States exchange student John Tobin, who in April was sentenced to three years' jail in Russia for drug offences, could face an espionage charge. Mr Tobin's lawyer said the allegation...
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Eyewitness: Echoes of Soviet era reverberate through Belarus elections
Belarus is preparing for presidential elections after seven years of the increasingly authoritarian rule of Alexander Lukashenko. As the president shows his lack of regard for the democratic process...
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Germans skip UK for Australia
British universities are losing foreign students to their Australian counterparts as Germans choose increasingly to go Down Under to study, improve their English and get a suntan into the bargain....
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Looted gold funds Roma study grants
Gold looted by the Nazis from Central and Eastern Europe's victimised war-time communities is to be used to help fund university scholarships for Roma students in the region. The scheme by George...
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India 'Talibanising' academia
The Indian government has provoked outrage by directing universities not to invite foreign scholars to conferences of a "political, semi-political, communal or religious nature" without getting...
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Religious quiz for parking permit ends
Bar-Ilan University's management has decided to cancel its practice of issuing two types of parking permits: one for religious lecturers and the other for their secular colleagues. The decision...
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Anti-Nazi drive gets masters nullified
A postgraduate degree awarded 11 years ago has been withdrawn by the University of Lyon-III on the grounds of revisionism after campaigns by anti-Nazi bodies. Jean Plantin, a publisher who two years...
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Student deaths: £1.5m bill for PM
A commission of inquiry into the killing of four students by police at the University of Papua New Guinea has been postponed while prime minister Sir Mekere Morauta joins a mourning ceremony with...
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Promotions
Goldsmiths College, London The following have been promoted to readerships: Dr Kate Lowe , senior lecturer in the department of historical and cultural studies; B. Jerome Sokol , senior lecturer in...
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Awards and prizes
University of Oxford The George Webb Medley Prize for best thesis submitted for the MPhil in Economics has been awarded to Thomas W. L. Norman , Nuffield College; Proxime Accesserunt: George Konaris...
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Latest international news
China accuses US-based scholars of spying China has begun trials of two scholars who are accused of spying for the United States, according to the State Department. Li Shaomin, a US citizen who...
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From today's UK papers
Independent Up to 10,000 young people are "missing" from their schools and have left no trace of their whereabouts, according to Ofsted, the government's education standards watchdog. The commercial...
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Latest UK news
Education minister grilled about fees MPs quizzed higher education minister Margaret Hodge yesterday about further and higher education funding and university tuition fees. Ms Hodge said there would...