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Open government is the new watchword at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, to judge from the invitation to tender for its massive new evaluation of research funding. A bulk email...
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Trust William
Talk about unlucky. No sooner does Bristol University decide to spend considerable amounts of time and money making itself more attractive to students from lower social classes, than Prince William...
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Give your don a break
Surprise! Academics at Salford University were in the midst of a student discussion group when who should burst in but comedian Les Dennis announcing they were all on TV. Student Mark Small had been...
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In the news
When John Andrews retires next May as chief executive of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils for Wales he will leave Welsh post-16 education transformed, even without the wholesale...
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Albania in drive to reach EU standard
ROME Italy is leading a drive to bring Albania into the European higher education network and bring its universities up to modern standards. Italian and Albanian government and university officials...
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Russians guided through linguistic jungle
MOSCOW Russian is a notoriously difficult language to learn and even natives often stumble over the grammatical complexities of declensions and conjugations. Grammars and dictionaries do not always...
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On the move
The Rt Hon. The Lord Paul of Marylebone, chairman of the Caparo Manufacturing Group, is to be the new chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton. He succeeds the university's first chancellor, the...
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Aid is a hand-out to tyranny
Donald Hagger condemns the blinkered theories behind western aid to Indonesia's brutal government As Indonesia descends into chaos, severe doubts arise about the theories of development aid that have...
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University of Cuzco
Cuzco Students at the University of Cuzco have protested against Peruvian government plans to build a cable car in the heart of Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas and the most famous ruins in...
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Each of Denmark
Copenhagen Each of Denmark's 40,000 new higher education students will buy textbooks worth about DKr30,000 (Pounds 2,655) from bookshops owned by the students' associations during their studies. The...
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University of Puerto Rico
San Juan About 300 students from the University of Puerto Rico protested last week against the US military's continuing occupation of a training ground on the outlying Caribbean island of Vieques....
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Australian university students
Canberra Australian university students are expected to owe more than Aus$10 billion (Pounds 4 billion) by early next century. The debt is being accrued every year the students remain at university...
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Entrance exam helps foil cheats
DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania's University of Dar es Salaam plans to introduce entrance examinations for all undergraduate applicants in an attempt to curb the use of fake secondary examination certificates...
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More cash for Spain's contract staff
BARCELONA A solution to the problems of Spain's army of temporary lecturers may finally be in sight. For the first time the Spanish government has pledged extra funds, ¤48 million (Pounds 32...
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Fair game for intuition
Designing a robotic volleyball team may be fun but does it contribute anything to the development of AI and real-world applications? Malcolm Peltu reports Next week, teams from United Kingdom and...