On the move
David Southwood , of the department of physics, Imperial College, has been elected director of science of the European Space Agency . The following have been made Teacher Training Agency board...
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Concentration can dilute
The issues facing tertiary education in New Zealand will be depressingly familiar to Britain, says Bryan Gould No New Zealand government feels comfortable until it has set up a working party, task...
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Eyewitness
France is introducing educational measures to help its overseas departments and territories - those previously often neglected areas scattered across the globe that chose to remain French rather than...
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Belgrade
Marija Bogdanovic, acting rector of the University of Belgrade, is due to attend this week's CRE (Association of European Rectors) conference in Poland. She is likely to be confirmed as rector by...
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Khartoum
Authorities at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and at the University of Nouakchott, Mauritania, have dissociated themselves from the several hundred students seeking to join a volunteer army to...
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Wiesbaden
Fewer Germans were awarded science and engineering degrees in 1999 than in 1998, according to the federal statistics agency. Chemistry graduations were down by 13.5 per cent, physics by 13 per cent,...
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Messina
Police have arrested 37 people at Messina University as part of an investigation into Mafia penetration of the Sicilian university. Charges relate to corruption in medical exams, access to courses...
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Dusseldorf
A German court has awarded €4,090 (£2,378) compensation to a former economics student who failed an exam when a professor at the University of Muenster failed to mark one page of...
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Dialogue survives despite conflict
Israeli academics believe their personal contacts with Palestinian colleagues will continue despite the violent confrontations in Israel and the West Bank. Paul Schamm, project coordinator at Hebrew...
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Egyptians welcome British initiative
Egypt has welcomed plans for a British university, which could open as early as October 2002. The country has 13 state universities and five private institutions, which generate 150,000 graduates a...
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Aga Khan unveils plans for London-based Islamic institute
An Institute of Islamic Civilisations is to be launched by the Karachi-based Aga Khan University as its first significant international initiative. The institute, which will be sited in London, aims...
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Tunisia strives to compete with European institutions
Tunisia plans to use an £80 million loan from the World Bank to reform and expand its tertiary education sector. This is Tunisia's second World Bank loan. The first was received in 1963...
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F-word sparks greyhead revolt
A German university is facing a new wave of student protest over the introduction of fees - this time from elderly students. Senior students at Hanover University are threatening a legal challenge to...
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Shut university to allow reform, says assessor
A government-appointed independent assessor has recommended that South Africa's University of the North be closed temporarily to allow the institution to restructure, develop new policies and weed...
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Oz gets second college inquiry
The Australian senate has established an inquiry into university funding, with special emphasis on the effects of an increasing reliance on private income. The senate sub-committee will report next...