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Kazak students defy president At least 120 Kazak students at religious colleges in Islamic countries are defying orders from president Nursultan Nazarbayev to return home. The order, triggered by...
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Swaziland's main underground opposition party has warned that this will be a month of mass action against the government of King Mswati III. Renewed unrest over lack of democracy stems from anger at...
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Greece in for a shake-up
As Greece grapples with reform of secondary schools, higher education has become a constitutional issue, writes Katharine Sarikakis The public debate in Greece about reforms in secondary schools and...
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Paris
More than 40 ministers of higher education from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean are meeting today in Paris to adopt a declaration opening the way for university and scientific cooperation...
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Strasbourg
The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling on Italy and the European Commission to end long-running job discrimination against foreign-language lecturers working in Italian universities...
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Bratislava
The Romanies of Slovakia have begun a campaign for a World Romany University to be established in Kosice in eastern Slovakia. The International Romany Union is seeking financial aid packages from the...
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Rio de Janeiro
A study of a national cross-section of more than 22,000 Brazilian medical graduates carried out by the national inter-institutional commission for the evaluation of medical teaching revealed that the...
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Durban
A disciplinary inquiry into accusations of insubordination and incompetence against Caroline White, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Natal, Durban, is to reconvene on Monday...
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Italians embrace credits system
Italian universities are pioneering the so-called European system of degree courses, consisting of a three-year degree followed by a two-year specialisation degree, as laid down in the 1998 Sorbonne...
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Serbia returns to the fold
The post-Milosevic administration at the University of Belgrade has called for the reinstatement of all teaching staff who lost their jobs under the 1998 university law introduced to eliminate or...
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Violence forces Basque academic to flee
A second academic under pressure from violent Basque nationalists linked to Eta has left his job in Spain. Jose Mar!a Portillo, lecturer in contemporary history at the University of the Basque...
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Reding calls for funding
Transatlantic agreements that have led to 3,000 European students benefiting from exchange programmes with universities and colleges in the United States and Canada are underfunded, the European...
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Rangers restore the peace
After 11 years of armed paramilitary presence on the campus of the University of Karachi, a relative peace reigns. But there is still little democracy - student unions were banned in 1984. "...
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Maths suffers falling numbers
Australian universities face a critical shortage of mathematicians. In the past five years, more than 25 per cent of the academics in maths departments have quit, and few, if any, new appointments...
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Arap Moi sets up private college
A year before he is due to retire from active politics, Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi has opened a private university on his 400-acre farm in Nakuru, 200km from Nairobi. Kabarak University was...