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Roman Herzog may be Germany's president but this has not stopped him being rude about Germans, or at least about their education system. The former law professor has called for a thorough reform of...
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A visual revolution gets on the starting grid
From next week's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco. The internet has changed the way we communicate. John Connolly believes the access grid could change the...
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Germany goes private
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ GERMAN state of Baden-Wurttemberg is planning to set up a private international university to attract more foreign students to the region. Education minister Klaus von Trotha is studying the...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: 11.4 per cent of the student population came from overseas to study in the United Kingdom compared with 10.4 per cent in 1994...
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Vivid symbols with secret lives
Mandala
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American takeover leads to punch-up
BARCELONA. Friction between the owners of a Spanish private university over its sale to a United States-based international education provider has degenerated into violence on campus and ensuing...
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Australia strengthens China ties
The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee has signed an historic exchange agreement with China. AVCC president John Niland went to Beijing to sign the agreement on behalf of Australian universities...
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Mums who like to wear tartan
The Mummies of Ürümchi
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Eye witness
Indonesia's ethnic Chinese community was the target of brutal victimisation after the fall of President Suharto at the hands of last summer's student inspired democracy movement. An estimated 1,000...
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Art of the state
The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia
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Centenary for Beijing
Beijing University is to celebrate its 100th anniversary in grand style in May. University president Chen Jia'er said party and state leaders will join more than 10,000 alumni from home and abroad at...
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Power play on the game
Prostitution, Power and Freedom
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Asian losses fear
ECONOMIC crisis in Southeast Asia could cost universities and colleges more than Pounds 50 million in two years, writes Harriet Swain. Latest estimates from the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Draft conclusions of CREST meeting (scientific and technical research), 8 February 2002
Brussels, 8 March 2002 Scientific and Technical Research Committee ­ CREST Secretariat. Draft summary conclusions of the 281st meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (...
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IMF links African slump to brain drain
Latest evidence from the International Monetary Fund suggests that a brain drain continues to block sustained economic growth in most African countries. IMF researchers found that a sizeable...