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An official inquiry into the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from the Bohemian city of Brno in the summer of 1945 may break a conspiracy of silence over wholesale postwar ethnic cleansing that continues...
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Slovaks get new college
Slovakia's first non-state university opened last month in Ruzomberok in central Slovakia. Formally termed a Catholic university, it has been established only after years of political wrangling....
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Access limits anger students
More than 200 students in limbo staged a sit-in outside Italy's parliament last week to put pressure on MPs to solve a legislative conflict on university access. In 1969, during nationwide student...
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Euro conclave calls for borderless study
An association representing hundreds of European higher education institutions plans to promote cross-border education using open and distance-learning teaching. Some 350 teachers and researchers...
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Feud puts science project in jeopardy
Soured relations between a Spanish university and its regional government are blocking the development of a E120 million (£72 million) science park in Alicante. Valencia's regional government, the...
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Frozen north out in the cold
Fewer Canadian researchers are joining the multinational teams conducting studies in the country's north, according to a task force report. Canada's northern research is deteriorating, says the...
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Students who kidnapped staff face expulsion
The senate of Nigeria's Delta State University has unanimously resolved to expel the leaders of the student union who took part in the kidnapping of the university's vice-chancellor, Ovie Igun. The...
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V-cs reject 'divisive' overhaul
South African vice-chancellors have rejected government proposals to change radically the size and shape of higher education. They opposed forced mergers and a three-tier system that would in effect...
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Scheme plans big jobs boost with small firms
A pioneering graduate employment scheme in Edinburgh believes it can promote jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises to 10,000 Scottish graduates a year if it goes nationwide. Margaret Allan,...
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Sponsor wooed by 3D study
Tudor cottages and suburban semis will grace the landscape of the next version of a classic computer game thanks to students at the Kent Institute for Art and Design (Kiad). The UK edition of Sim...
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Wap gets the campus call
Alongside the Investors in People and Queen's Award plaques, most campus receptions prominently display a mobile phone ban. But a rehabilitation of the mobile menace is on the cards. Administrators...
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Europe to strengthen LatAm links
Many Latin American executives still look to North America for their management training needs, but signs of a shift in focus to Europe were visible at a recent conference in Barcelona. More than 200...
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Incubator helps to nurture research and commerce
Belfast's first e-business incubator has just opened in the Springvale Education Village, the pioneering peaceline initiative involving Ulster University and the Belfast Institute of Further and...
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Suspended animation
(Photograph) - Suspended animation: Richard Lampitt of Southampton Oceanography Centre checks the light quality of the lasers on the £1 million 3D camera that is designed to record plankton life more...
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Britain attracts NI students
The number of full-time undergraduates from Northern Ireland on courses in mainland Britain and the Republic of Ireland has risen by 64 per cent over the past decade to 38,414 in 1999-2000. The...