Folklorist wrestles with masses
MONTREAL. Gerald Pocius has not performed a pile driver nor had to hit any opponents across the head with a metal chair to prove that the study of professional wrestling can hold currency in academic...
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Fall in birth rate hits prep schools
TOKYO. A fall in the number of applications for places at universities in Japan is forcing the closure of exam preparatory schools, which have made millions from the intense competition for places....
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Hungarians fight on for ethnic Transylvanian university
Max Van der Stoel, commissioner on national minorities at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, is to recommend that the European Commission aid Romania's multicultural Babes-...
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Head of philosophy led protest
Gillian Sandford reports from Belgrade on the suppression of democracy Few professors can command as much respect from staff and students as Marija Bogdanovic, who resigned as dean of the faculty of...
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Milosevic: the biggest dean of all
Gillian Sandford reports from Belgrade on the suppression of democracy Branko Ilic is short, lithe and full of energy. The student of Spanish and philosophy would look at home on any campus. But he...
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Syria plods into net revolution
AMMAN. Fax machines have been legal in Syria only since 1995. Mobile phones have not been introduced on the grounds that they represent a threat to national security, and the internet was banned...
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It's now a game of twenty-two chips
A Plymouth University football team will be playing in front of millions in Germany this weekend. The players, all robots, are being trained by Paul Robinson and Guido Bugmann, writes Tim Greenhalgh...
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All data you need at the local hub
A next-generation version of the early internet knowledge-based jump stations has been launched in the United Kingdom. The network of discipline-based "hubs" will offer students, lecturers and...
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Bug may still strike Y2K 'safe' campuses
The millennium bug may yet be bustling around under the surface of higher education in the United Kingdom as many institutions are adopting a "wait and see" approach. Its complex nature has made...
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Oz gets electronic update
MELBOURNE. Australia's university libraries and research organisations are collaborating in a unique project to develop a national electronic network of information centres. Each of the Janus centres...
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New era in pictures
BERLIN. An American university claims its method of combining video with audio and text on the internet is a revolutionary delivery trend for education. Andy DiPaolo, executive director of the...
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Klug wants overhaul of science policy system
The tradition of neutrality among members of official scientific advisory committees should be abandoned, according to Sir Aaron Klug, president of the Royal Society. In his anniversary address last...
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Anytime, anywhere deal
Academic portal builder ingenta has struck an "anytime, anywhere" content deal with Freeserve, the number one free internet service provider in the United Kingdom. The two companies will produce and...
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Forging healthy links
Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, Henry McLeish, has stressed the importance of collaboration between higher education and business in a "state of the nation" address. Mr...
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Nicol Stephen
Nicol Stephen, deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, praised Aberdeen College for helping to turn the vision of a learning nation into a reality through a Pounds 3.2 million...