SA crisis leaves students penniless
Zimbabwe's financial and political crisis has left hundreds of Zimbabwean students studying at universities in South Africa penniless and battling to make ends meet. Among the 4,000 or more affected...
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Agony aunt
Helen Johnstone , Registry University College Worcester . A: The rivers are getting higher as water comes down from Wales. We have played it by ear so far. We have been catching up from last week,...
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Star Turn: Paul Bridge
Pat Leon saw the man from Kew sharing his passion for fungi with Birkbeck students. Paul Bridge has a lifelong love affair with fungi. It took him away to Papua New Guinea and other tropical climes...
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How to woo students from overseas
WHAT: Harinder Bahra argues that international students are not units of finance to be thrown in with the rest of the student cohort. WHY: A warm welcome on arrival and sensitive support throughout...
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Inspectors' lives after Woodhead
Does anyone know exactly what the assessors are doing? Geoffrey Squires thinks it is about time we asked them. When someone comes to write the history of British education in the late 20th century,...
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Juan, Carlos and Maria learn Welsh
Robert Owen Jones went to Patagonia to save a dying language. Adrian Mourby reports on the resurrection of Welsh after Perón. Robert Owen Jones loves his subject, but even he admits that socio-...
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Latest UK news
Chancellor gives research a boost Chancellor Gordon Brown has given research and innovation a helping hand in his pre-budget statement. Mr Brown said there would be consultation on tax relief for...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES The government will announce an extra £600 million in funding to back the business-led Learning and Skills Council — the biggest reform in national training efforts since...
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Latest international news
Germany and Brazil exchange ideas Germany and Brazil have signed a memorandum of understanding that aims to increase the bilateral exchange of postgraduate and postdoctoral academics by 20...
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Assessment of Impacts of Genetically Modified Plants
Deadline: 15/12/2000
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Grants for UK citizens
Deadline: 01/12/2000
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Latest international news
Canadian Tories promise to reverse cuts Canada's opposition leader, Joe Clark, has blamed cuts imposed by Jean Chrétien's Liberal government for the country’s brain drain and promised that a Tory...
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Latest UK news
York running, but loos silent York University was still operating today despite the city's worst flooding for more than 400 years, but staff and students were being asked to&...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN Over the past 80 years, 25,000 people have been exposed to chemical weapons at Porton Down. Why did they volunteer, and why did British scientists carry out experiments...
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Latest international news
US and UK cancel Ugandan scholarships Britain and the United States have cancelled 80 scholarships for Ugandan army officers to train at their military colleges. Diplomatic sources in...