War and pieces
(Photograph) - John Buckley from Wolverhampton University is the new WarGaming world champion after finishing on top at the recent International WarGamers Federation world championship in Derby. The...
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Hi-tech library not so new
Paris. PARIS students were among the first readers to queue for the 1,697 seats in the general public's reading rooms of the national library, which opened last week just two months behind schedule....
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Jews seek return of historic manuscripts
A COLLECTION of more than 100,000 Hebrew and Yiddish publications, some dating back to the 17th century, has become the focus of a dispute between the National Library of Lithuania and Jewish...
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Bilingual degrees on offer
Hamburg. GERMAN universities are to establish bilingual degree courses in a bid to make their higher education system more attractive to foreign students. The education ministry will invest DM30...
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States update pacts on degrees
MORE THAN 50 countries are expected to back a new convention on the recognition of higher education qualifications at a diplomatic conference in Lisbon in April. The Council of Europe and Unesco are...
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Malaysia relaxes rules on university entry
THE RURAL poor in Malaysia are expected to be the main beneficiaries of the relaxation of entry requirements to local universities. About 40 per cent of school leavers could go to university...
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Backlash to race attack
Melbourne. MALAYSIA's warning that it might recall more than 11,000 of its students studying in Australia if their safety was threatened by racist behaviour has sparked alarm among Australia's vice...
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System is broke but not broken
So ends 1996. Four years of hard work yielded a welcome Christmas present for many in terms of improved research assessments. Months of campaigning and lobbying produced a little more cash for...
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Penalised for making it
AFTER the emotional responses to the research assessment exercise results last week, attention shifts to the financial implications. The quality research funding formula is not yet known. It is...
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Bomb blasts Islam off course
Attempts to set up a new Islamic studies course in Strasbourg are apparently being hampered by a fresh wave of anxiety about Islamic fundamentalism triggered by the recent bomb attack on the Paris...
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Lawyers square up for battle over practice
law students and lawyers are embroiled in a bitter dispute over what enables someone to practise law in Spain. At the moment, anyone who has completed a first degree in law can set up a practice and...
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Pretoria seeks greater control
Most South African universities have welcomed proposals for reform but some fear government interference. Karen Mac Gregor reports from Durban. The South African government is to secure far firmer...
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US colleges face huge bills
UNITED STATES universities and colleges face a massive $26 billion r bill to wipe out their backlog of building repairs and maintenance, a report has found. The cost, $5.7 billion of which represent...
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Non-expulsion hard to stomach
A student at the Ontario College of Art and Design who deliberately vomited on two museum paintings because he found them to be "stale, lifeless crusts" will not face expulsion or suspension from his...
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All Brothers together in Bethlehem city
SMOKE rises up into the air heavy with chattering voices and clattering trays. Denim-clad students sit at nicotine-stained plastic tables spilling over with books and files. A typical lunch-time...