High flood-level talks
When York University vice-chancellor Ron Cooke wanted a word this week with the city's MP, Hugh Bayley, who lives on the same street, he found a neighbourly chat harder than he thought. Sixteen feet...
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Nineties' brain power
There is nothing like first-hand experience for informing high-level research. Hence the decision by Michael Denham, 92, a consultant and lecturer at Northwick Park Hospital, to take time out for a...
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On a baby-kissing trail
Strathclyde University press officer Judith Fryer is on the campaign trail as Liberal Democrat candidate for the Scottish Parliament in the late Donald Dewar's Glasgow Anniesland seat. Kissing babies...
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Identity search
The marketing director for the University for Industry demonstrated refreshing honesty when challenged over the title of his organisation by university administrators at their conference last week. "...
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Eyewitness: Lifeline for South Asia's child labourers
Nepal's carpet industry has been a lucrative source of foreign earnings for one of the world's poorest countries, but its reliance on child labour has been heavily criticised. Children toil for hours...
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Paris
The director of the Ecole Centrale Paris, whose reappointment was blocked by former education minister Claude Allegre, has got his old job back. Daniel Gourisse has been head of the engineering...
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Lagos
The vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos has resigned over his failure to secure senate approval for a Nigerian satellite centre at the University of Seoul, South Korea, and to supply detailed...
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Gualeguaychú
The Higher Institute of Art in Gualeguaychu is offering Argentina's first diploma in carnival studies. The five-year course requires would-be carnival specialists to attend lectures on the history of...
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Astana
At least 120 Kazak students at religious colleges in Islamic countries are defying orders from Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev to return home. The order went out in September, triggered by...
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Washington DC
Only 39 per cent of the 172 Roman Catholic colleges in the United States have drawn up plans to cope with the shrinking population of nuns and priests, according to a survey by the Association of...
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Cotonou
The Saudi Arabian-based Islamic Development Bank has given $70,000 (£48,400) to the University of Benin as part of a technical agreement aimed at improving its infrastructure. Most of the money will...
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World view: Numbers are irresistible
Women are overtaking men in universities, and some men are worried, writes Sheldon Rothblatt Over its 800 years, university history contains startling continuities. While much of the medieval or...
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Campus overhaul as Taiwan loosens state strings
Taiwan's first free elections and the appointment of a new education minister in May have speeded up reform of the country's higher education system. Even before the change of government, the country...
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Colleges urged to give men a break
The proportion of male undergraduates at American universities has fallen to 45 per cent, prompting calls for special help - including waivers of admission standards - to increase numbers in the same...
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New Zealand spends £1.6m to ward off loan debacle
The New Zealand government is to spend an extra NZ$6 million (£1.6 million) on the processing of student loans and allowances in a bid to avoid the debacle that dogged university and polytechnic...