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Harvard University has chosen its first visiting fellows for the Chicago University-based Scholars at Risk Network. Mehrangiz Kar, a legal scholar from Tehran, has been imprisoned in Iran as a result...
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Minsk
Belarusian president Alaksandr Lukashenka has warned rectors to be prepared for "surprises" during this year's entrance examinations as a government commission prepares to monitor the examinations -...
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Postgrad study urged for polys
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has come out strongly in support of plans to allow Finland's polytechnics to offer postgraduate degrees. The option is to be launched this...
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The Queen's Birthday honours list
ORDER OF THE COMPANIONS OF HONOUR CH Sir Michael Howard , emeritus professor of modern history, University of Oxford, for services to military studies. KNIGHTS BACHELOR Peter Bell ,...
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Skip Blue Nun, try Old Monk
The University of Siena is to recreate medieval Chianti wine after reconstructing the vineyards attached to a Tuscan monastery. The wine will be as close as possible to that of the Middle Ages, using...
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Russians cash in on Chinese shortfall
Oriental music and the high-pitched tonal sounds of Chinese chatter echo through the central hall of Volgograd's teaching university as students break for lunch. Milling around an exhibition of...
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Sex and drink-fuelled fraternities sober up
The hip series this summer on American TV is about university sororities. In promotional ads for the series, female undergraduates expound on the academic achievement of sorority members, their...
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Afghan exiles face dilemma as UN pushes for return
Every month, a small convoy of buses leaves Istanbul for the Afghan capital, Kabul. The buses are part of a growing exodus of refugees returning home after years and, for some, decades of exile....
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Tel Aviv tackles deficit crisis
Tel Aviv University has launched a four-year downsizing plan to deal with a 161 million shekel (£22 million) deficit. The plan has been approved by the planning and budgeting committee of Israel's...
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Campaigner dies before MBE
The founder and director of Seriously Ill for Medical Research has died from a progressive genetic condition shortly after learning that he was to receive an MBE. Andrew Blake, who suffered from...
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Shine a light on bright future for chemistry
Chemistry in higher education needs to be exciting and realistic, according to David Giachardi In the 21st century, chemistry will be the pivotal science. It will underpin and drive advances in the...
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Customer concerns
Treating students as customers damages the academic community, argues Stephen Burwood It has become commonplace for students to be described as "customers". This is, of course, the sort of...
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More than a research factory
True scholarship involves a range of intellectual activities, writes Stephen Logan What are universities for? One function might be to maintain a degree of historical impartiality about the cultural...
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Why I ..believe guns do not increase violence
Gun control advocates have praised the English model, where the toughest arms restrictions of any democracy are credited with producing a low level of violent crime. But the historical record...
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Life after retirement for Hubble hardware
Paris, 20 June 2002 Two pieces of 'retired' hardware retrieved from the Hubble Space Telescope provide scientists and engineers with unique knowledge of how long-term exposure to the harsh space...