Don's Diary
Wednesday A taxi for Manchester Airport pulls into the drive. I am going first to Macedonia for a three-day conference on "Problems of Transition" and early next week on to Albania for a Tempus...
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Peace cannot be imposed
A peace process is impossible unless protagonists in a conflict want it, say Roger Mac Ginty and John Darby Nato may be able to bomb Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic into accepting the...
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Dushanbe
Three Tajik rebels have been sentenced to death by firing squad for the murder of Yomura Akino, a Japanese expert on the former Soviet Union from Tsukuba University who was seconded to the United...
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Stanford
Police have arrested the man they believe has made hundreds of obscene phone calls to women at Stanford University. Since 1995, more than 400 phone harassment cases have been reported. The man, 28-...
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New York
Human Rights Watch has renewed pressure on the Malaysian government to launch an independent investigation into last month's dismissal of University of Malaya professor Chandra Muzaffar. Professor...
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Alternative to nets
Last year, after failing to get EU-wide agreement on action to cut dolphin deaths, the UK took unilateral action to phase out its own tuna fishing fleet. Drift-netting used to catch tuna has been...
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Row over private support
German university rectors have criticised politicians for awarding generous state grants to private universities at a time when the state universities are suffering funding and job cuts. Klaus...
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Ex-Soviet states quit science academy
The countries of Central Asia are dismantling their Soviet science structures. Last year, Turkmenistan quietly dissolved its Academy of Sciences. Now Kazakhstan plans to do the same. The Soviet...
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More nanny schools after scandals
Publicity surrounding cases of children who died while in the care of nannies and au pairs has led to a rapid expansion of dedicated university and college courses in the United States. Ann Hogan,...
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Mutual dissatisfaction in France
Judicial inquiries into alleged irregularities in France's biggest student social insurance society have led to the imprisonment of the company's former lawyer, an extradition warrant for its former...
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Aussie unis at half the price
More than half the money allocated to Australian universities by the federal and state governments is returned to them in taxes. Research by two senior academics at the University of New South Wales...
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You are such a scary audience
Universities are helping to invent the future of digital television, Tony Durham reports The digital television industry is looking to universities for ideas that could expand the fledgling medium's...
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Dream system for California
The University of California's governing board has agreed to offer automatic places to the top 4 per cent of pupils from the state's 863 public high schools. The 13-1 vote in favour of the new rule...
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Cambodia's universities rise from the killing fields
The Royal Phnom Penh University, which lies on the chaotic road to the Cambodian capital's Pochentong airport, has a brief but tragic past. Opened in 1960, it was shut in 1975 - the Khmer Rouge's "...
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Flying the flag
(Photograph) - Flying the flag: an Albanian student taking part in a demonstration in Bucharest, Romania, last week. The 150 Albanian students protested against the Serbian crackdown and expulsion of...