Vienna
Almost 40,000 personal files and records documenting forced labour in the former Hermann Goering steelworks during the Nazi period have been found in an anti-aircraft gun bunker in Linz. Historian...
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Directors don chancellors' robes
The search by Australian universities for non-government sources of income is affecting their choice of chancellors. Universities are increasingly looking to corporate chiefs to don their chancellors...
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China opens student door a little wider
The China Scholarship Council is improving arrangements for Chinese students and scholars to study overseas and for foreign students to study in China. More than 1,709 students and scholars have been...
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Outrage at 'contented slave' view of history
A small college in the American South has bowed to pressure from civil rights groups and cancelled a course that argued slaves were content with their lot. The course, called "North Carolina History...
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World Bank fund for farm experts
The World Bank is investing heavily in farming extension education in universities across sub-Saharan Africa to break the link between poor agricultural practices and chronic food shortages. Ghana's...
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University battles old-school ties
The Netherlands' Leiden University is making a bid for independence. Leiden chairman Laurens Vredevoogd wants to free the country's oldest university from government control and develop it as a top-...
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Students fuel debate on college reforms
Details of the controversial reform to reorganise university studies around three, five or eight year courses have been released following student unrest and calls for clarification from the newly...
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Bosnian education rises from ashes
Four years of war have devastated Bosnia's universities: thousands of students and lecturers have quit, courses are out of date, and damaged university buildings remain in disrepair. Not only does...
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EC advances on Italy over lecturers' claims
European Commission officials have denied a claim by the Italian higher education ministry that it is about to drop infringement proceedings against Italy over an issue concerning the country's 1,500...
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Paperless thesis transports past into a potential future
The subject was ancient, the style postmodern. Cornelius Holtorf gained his archaeology PhD from the University of Wales, Lampeter with a paperless thesis presented on a CD-Rom. He chose his medium...
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Out of the morass
Step through one of the internet's subject gateways and you leave the information jungle behind, says Ayala Ochert Many academics have shied away from using the world wide web after discovering that...
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Revelations in the hidden sky
WINTRAK PRO. By Paul Traufler. (+1 256 837 0084 www.hsv.tis.net/wintrak). US$69.95. Windows 95/98/NT CD. Windows 3.11 and DOS versions also available. In the early days after the launch of Sputnik,...
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Foreign facades on Main Street
Shaping a Nation - Architecture in the United States
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work - half treatise, half novel - that described how education could elicit the natural goodness of...
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Reel estate
Cinema and Architecture