Asian crisis hits overseas intake
The full impact of the Southeast Asia crisis on student recruitment overseas emerged this week, with figures showing a 13 per cent drop overall in new higher education intakes from abroad this year....
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Ulster bids to raise Pounds 70 million
Ulster University is hoping to capitalise on international sympathy for Northern Ireland with a bid to raise Pounds 70 million to help tackle social issues and promote economic regeneration. 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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In the news
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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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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Half-century hallmarks
England 1945-2000 - The Verdict of Peace
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Art of the state
The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia
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A current account of activity
The World Bank
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Vivid symbols with secret lives
Mandala
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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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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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Report of CREST meeting (scientific and technical research) on 8 February 2002
Brussels, 9 April 2002 Scientific and Technical Research Committee ­ CREST ­ Secretariat. Summary conclusions of the 281st meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (...
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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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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...