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Despite acclaimed success in East Timor, the Australian government realises it cannot act as regional policeman. Political chaos engulfing Fiji and the Solomon Islands, the independence push in the...
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Diplomat war hero honoured
A Japanese cultural and study centre has opened in Lithuania, in honour of Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), a Japanese diplomat who, during the second world war, saved more than 10,000 Lithuanian, Polish...
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Get smart
The government has launched a project to deliver next-generation smart cards for young people who stay on in education after the age of 16. Malcolm Wicks, the lifelong learning minister, is...
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Chapel provokes unholy feeling
Academics at Rome's Tor Vergata University are in uproar over plans to build a Roman Catholic church in the centre of the campus. A petition already signed by 130 out of 1,000 lecturers at the...
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Russia pilots exam to stamp out bribes
The days of corrupt university professors taking bribes from students sitting entrance exams could be numbered if a Russian education ministry scheme to extend a pilot scheme of written school-...
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France sifts the hard-up from the hype
A report commissioned to review the numbers of poor students reveals there are more than 20,000 living in severe poverty and thousands more who have to work to make ends meet. The report, the second...
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Fears for privacy in student tracking
A small minority of the 500,000 international students who come to the United States may exploit their student status to support terrorist activity, the National Commission on Terrorism has warned....
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Exchange network for Indian Ocean area
A new international academic and student exchange network has been established by 19 countries whose shores are washed by the Indian Ocean. University and government representatives from the nations...
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$1m awards on offer in Jewish Nobel prize
Tel Aviv University plans to inaugurate a "Jewish People's Nobel prize", its president, Itamar Rabinovich, says. The university will award three $1 million prizes each year through a specially...
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Buena Vista: Rock guitarist Ry Cooder
(Photograph) - Buena Vista: Rock guitarist Ry Cooder, the impetus behind the world fame of the elderly Cuban musicians who have come to be known as the Buena Vista Social Club, receives an honorary...
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Gender trouble at 'immoral' centre
A women's studies centre at Yemen's Sana'a University has been forced to drop the word "gender" from much of its literature as the price of continuing its activities. Conservative Islamists were...
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Virtual drama unfolds on web
It sounds like a script from the Twilight Zone - television viewers who move behind the screen and into the action. At the University of Nottingham yesterday, the Mixed Reality Laboratory...
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A course in how to get on with Germans
The Catholic University of Nijmegen, Holland, 30 miles from the German border, is running postgraduate courses for Dutch business people, politicians and civil servants, teaching them how to...
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The cheesy future of online access
More than 1,500 "architects of the future" from more than 50 countries attended the recent ninth International Conference on the World Wide Web in Amsterdam. Computer scientists, academics, technical...
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Glasgow to see Stars in the Valley
Glasgow University is joining the Stars (Scottish Technology and Research) by opening an office in the heart of Silicon Valley in California next month to promote its innovative spin-out companies....