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(Photograph) - Rock solid: police gather under the statue of Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos to defend the parliament building from technical college students protesting against a court...
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Philosophical element added to periodic tables
PARIS Scientific and medical studies in France will gain an ethical dimension with the introduction of a compulsory course in the philosophy of science. Education minister Claude Allegre has ordered...
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French row over student poverty
PARIS The French education ministry has rejected a claim that 100,000 students may be living in poverty. The report, commissioned by the ministry itself, is about the workings of the students' social...
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Soros funds online journal
PRAGUE George Soros's Internet Project has given a new lease of life to post communist Europe's only pan-regional journal of social and political analysis, Transitions. Transitions Online was...
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Lannavaara
A degree-level course in gemmology will be offered next year at Lannavaara, northern Sweden, a mining town and gem centre with fewer than 100 inhabitants. It will be northern Europe's first gemmology...
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Jerusalem
Israeli biologists and zoologists have written to ministers and members of the Knesset (parliament) attacking Thai foreign workers for endangering Israeli wildlife. In a letter to the ministries of...
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Rio de Janeiro
The federal university in Rio de Janeiro is involved in a tug-of-war with the education minister over funds to improve poor classroom facilities. The university sought funding after the ministry...
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'Chief of structure' quits over new age of corporate speak
ROME A professor of Anglo-American literature at Venice University has announced he will abandon teaching after 42 years because he is baffled by the new wave of corporate-bureaucratic terminology...
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Sheffield Hallam University
(Photograph) - Student Chris Tann and vice-chancellor Diana Green demonstrate how some academics at Sheffield Hallam University have given up their offices in favour of a temporary workstation in a...
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Bids going up
Bath Information Data Services (Bids) is offering students and academics access to the Medline database. The free service, produced by the National Library of Medicine, contains more than 10 million...
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Sylvan unveils subsidiary
Sylvan Learning Systems, which owns the private Universidad Europea de Madrid, has launched a $500 million (Pounds 317 million) subsidiary that will specialise in internet-based programmes. The...
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Warning from the dark side of the web
A leader of the early internet last week sounded a warning about the potential for global "virtual conflict" and the tools needed to combat it. Steve Lukasik, visiting scholar at Stanford University...
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Students question virtual diplomat
American studies and politics students from ten United Kingdom institutions have had a virtual seminar with the United States ambassador to the UK, Philip Lader. Mr Lader initiated the experimental...
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E-archives for easier access to articles
A technical convention that promises easier access to articles and enables all archives to communicate with each other in a common language has marked a milestone in online academic publishing. The...
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Sleep safe
A partnership between doctors at Queen's University, Belfast, and a local medical equipment company has led to a breakthrough that will safeguard patients under anaesthetic. A team from the...