Moscow
Russian government officials and television executives were this week considering using the top of Moscow State University's main tower as a transmission platform after fire tore through the city's...
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Abidjan
Ten students from the University of Cote d'Ivoire went on hunger strike inside the capital's Catholic cathedral in protest at military leader General Robert Guei's decision to run for president. They...
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Moroni
The prospect of students from the secessionist island of Don Juan in the Comores getting into the University of Comorian Islands at Moroni, the capital, this October looks bleak. Lecturers refused to...
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Santiago
An administrative hiccup at the University of Santiago, Chile, has left 157 students without a place, despite obtaining full entrance requirements. A further 159 were forced to enrol at other...
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Lima
Archaeology students at Peruvian universities Federico Villarreal and Mayor de San Marcos have succeeded in blocking the auction sale of pre-Hispanic Wari and Chancay textiles valued at $4,000 (...
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'Eternal' students are expelled in World Bank overhaul
More than 26,000 "eternal" students have been expelled from Madagascar's six public universities and two polytechnics and admission procedures tightened in a World Bank-inspired drive to improve...
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Info gap widens for poor countries
Developing countries face a form of "scientific apartheid" as the richer nations widen the knowledge gap, a senior World Bank official warned last week. Ismail Serageldin, a vice-president of the...
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Italy puts an end to open access
Italy has given the final go-ahead for a radical reform of university degrees that spells an end to the principle of open access for all secondary school graduates, a principle won by the student...
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Urban waste reborn as Sorbonne Mark II
A new Latin Quarter is rising from urban wasteland in the southeast corner of Paris, with a new Sorbonne for 40,000 students at its centre. After a decade marked by financial and economic setbacks,...
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Game plan to boost local jobs
Students at the University of Abertay Dundee are being given the chance to develop the next Lara Croft or Earthworm Jim with the help of the university and Scottish Enterprise Tayside (Set). The...
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Investment in miracle material
A university-enterprise partnership has been launched to develop innovative technology based on the "miracle material" gallium nitride. Gallium nitride has been described as the most important new...
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Lending innovation from online library
The national libraries of Australia and New Zealand, along with 15 Australian universities and two state libraries, have launched an online local inter-lending document delivery administration system...
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Regeneration package inspires new masters
A Pounds 40 million government package aimed at improving parts of North Staffordshire has prompted Staffordshire University to launch an MA programme in local economic regeneration. Rick Ball, one...
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Fee cap will close gates to the less well-off
In the fifth of our series on universities in the 21st century, Sarah Fitzpatrick argues that the time is right for institutionsin the United Kingdom to be free to decide what to charge. It has never...
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Is it time we abolished the GCSE?
This year's exam results and clearing season has been marked by a new surge of interest in changing the school year to allow university admissions to be made on the basis of known results, not...