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Rome, like many other parts of Italy, is under attack from tiger mosquitoes, a particularly aggressive and dangerous species believed to have arrived from Asia. Paul Reiter, head of the entomology...
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Knives out for Mr President
Economic problems and outbreaks of violence are giving the new Indonesian leader a bumpy ride, says Bill Watson. When Abdurrahman Wahid took office as president of Indonesia last November he knew...
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Cuts to degree places
Bulgarian prime minister Ivan Kostov has called for substantial cuts in university admissions to bring graduation rates in line with job prospects. The call was reminiscent of the admissions policy...
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Norway plans for niche market
Greater autonomy, higher quality and more but specialised universities will dominate the future of Norway's higher education sector if the recommendations of a government report are implemented. The...
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Ethnic unrest at school closure
Macedonia's fledgling Albanian-language university in Tetova may become an unexpected victim of last year's Kosovo war. Macedonia faces a growing Albanian irredentist movement. A quarter of its...
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Students and workers united
France will bring together university studies and the world of work with the introduction next October of a degree that will train students specifically for employment. Universities have submitted...
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Fiji coup tensions keep v-c job empty
Even before the University of the South Pacific suspended classes because of last month's attempted coup, racist pressure had forced it to suspend the appointment of a new vice-chancellor. In the...
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Higher education unions
* Higher education unions representing academics in Australia and New Zealand have called on members to isolate tertiary institutions in Fiji in protest against the coup, writes Geoff Maslen. The...
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Night booze buster
A United States university is to build a $9 million (Pounds 5.96 million) 24-hour spa and enclosed swimming pool as part of an effort to dissuade its students from drinking. It will also include a...
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Social fundraising motivator
A mission to include mass higher education and outreach makes the University of Massachusetts at Amherst a rather different institution from Oxford or Harvard. But its University Scholars programme...
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Sources for research funding
KRISTINEBERG MARINE RESEARCH STATION www.kmf.gu.se/index_eng.html Transnational Access to Major Research Infrastructures Kristineberg Marine Research Station (KMRS) has been selected for support by...
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Agony aunt
I am an external examiner this year for the first time. How can I gear myself up to the task? * Windy Dyrden, Professor of counselling, Goldsmiths College, London The best way is to expunge any need...
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Questions over IT stock launch
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission is considering an investigation into possible insider trading by senior academics and council members at the University of Melbourne. The share...
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Entrepreneurial old students boost funds
Technology firms are helping to shield Canadian universities from falling government support as their entrepreneurial players become the latest category of donors targeted by university development...
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Combined e-learning for all ages
The e-college has come to south-east Scotland with a unique academic collaboration between school and further and higher education on courses in science, technology and engineering. Heriot-Watt...