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Turkey has offered to support Greece in its efforts to recover the Elgin marbles from their 200-year sojourn in the British Museum. Ironically it was the Ottoman Empire - as the occupying power -...
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Academic protests against television satire
Angry academics from St Petersburg University have protested against Russia's most popular television political satire, the puppet show Kulky, which they claim exposed acting president Vladimir Putin...
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SA to close for-profit courses
South Africa has moved to close for-profit courses being offered by foreign universities, many of them British, through local institutions. Kader Asmal, the education minister, has asked the nation's...
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Bookish pursuits
Researchers at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen are investigating how the book industry's traditional communication is being transformed by the web. Jo Royle of RGU's school of information and...
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Antique youths
The University of Bologna will next autumn launch a three-year degree course in antique dealing. The project, which is being hailed as Europe's first, is part of a government drive to introduce the...
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PhD to be reassessed
A PhD student has won a four-year court battle with Beijing University to obtain his electronics diploma and have his PhD reassessed. This is the first time a student has sued a university, which is...
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Israeli university fees
A public committee with a mandate to decide about a gradual reduction in Israeli university tuition fees is to be established in the next few days with representatives from the ministries of finance...
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European University of Ireland investigation
Ireland's education ministry is investigating an operation calling itself the European University of Ireland that is operating from a Dublin accommodation address without official sanction. The EUI...
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Franz Kafka campaign
A retired Sussex University professor of comparative literature is continuing his 40-year campaign to persuade Prague's city authorities to name a square after Franz Kafka, who was born in the city...
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Polluted Bangkok hosts conference on environment
University leaders, gathering to thrash out ideas on how to overcome the world's environmental challenges, could hardly have chosen a more apt venue to hold the international conference. The...
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V-c quits over lack of funds
Students are no longer the only people who drop out of university due to frustration with the effects of financial cutbacks. Now a Canadian vice-chancellor can be added to the list. Paule Leduc...
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New Guinea students catch up
Students at the University of Papua New Guinea have returned to special classes designed to help them catch up with work missed when student boycotts and violence forced the university to abandon the...
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Clerics still pose barrier to reform
The pro-reform parties that now form a majority in Iran's parliament after last week's elections will still face substantial opposition to reform from the conservative clerics who run Iran. It seems...
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Cyprus move widens access
Higher education in the Republic of Cyprus has undergone a long-awaited change with the government accreditation of 118 courses at private tertiary colleges. But the move has been met with mixed...
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New college helps plug gap in Maltese market
A new College of Applied Arts, Sciences and Technology is to bridge the gap between Maltese initial vocational education and the University of Valetta. Since 1980, when a Maltese polytechnic merged...