Milosevic sends in the thugs
Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, not content with stripping universities of their autonomy, has resorted to new, violent methods of dealing with his critics in academia. A protest at Belgrade...
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Students defiant after police raid Belgrade HQ
The Yugoslav student-based resistance movement Otpor staged a defiant but symbolic gesture after a police raid last week on its Belgrade headquarters, writes Gillian Sandford from Belgrade. Anti-...
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Palestinian rape victims turn to novel champion
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's apartment is the first stop for many Palestinian women on their way to pray at the nearby Dome of the Rock Mosque in the old city of Jerusalem. Many of them are victims of...
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Germans host Expo campus
For 100 days until mid-October, Hanover is hosting a unique experiment - the first International Women's University, comprising hundreds of academics and students from 115 countries. Set up as a...
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Simmering student unrest hits Mexico City
Against a background of waving tricolours, chanted slogans, revolutionary songs by students from the national school of music and placards calling for free love and a free public university, students...
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Readers' reactions
A fortnight ago in The THES.. Mary Beard celebrated the 'dirty bits' being restored to the Loeb Classical Library What a strange piece from Mary Beard about the "dirty" bits in classical literature....
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Got to go to market
The Tories' new endowment scheme should be more radical, says David Blanchflower The diagnosis is in - British universities need enormous transfusions of cash and they need them now. Without this...
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Russia to overhaul entrance exams
Russia is to introduce a single, nationwide combined school leaving and university entrance examination next year, education minister Vladimir Filippov has confirmed. In a television interview, he...
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Central Asia to launch first course in mountain studies
The world's first university devoted to mountain studies is to be set up in one of Central Asia's most remote and rugged regions to focus international academic attention on mountain cultures,...
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Smarter thinking
Two seminars to provide information to academics and businesses about the People at the Centre of Communication and Information Technologies research (Paccit Link) programme are being held next...
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Edinburgh gold
A new website administered by Edinburgh University will allow sports commentators at the forthcoming Olympics to call on fascinating facts to add depth to their coverage. Among the most intriguing...
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More credit
The Open University has launched an online service that allows prospective students to log on and access a step-by-step guide to credit transfer with confirmation on whether previous studies qualify...
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Sources of research funding
Each week we list funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL www.nerc.ac.uk Marine Productivity: physical...
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Learning bank
GE Equity has invested Pounds 1.3 million in Wide Learning, an online financial learning company. Wide Learning provides finance and business courses to banking professionals and private investors...
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Pounds 13m windfall for online resource
Forty projects will share more than Pounds 13 million as part of the drive to boost the Distributed National Electronic Resource, the Joint Information Systems Committee's attempt to devise a...