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In Kuwait last week, Ahmad Al-Baghdadi, a university academic and newspaper columnist, was arrested and imprisoned for blasphemy. The four-week court sentence on Professor Al-Baghdadi, a professor of...
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World watch
The Dutch government is to make ¤4 million (Pounds 2.5 million) available to encourage foreign students to study in the Netherlands. Education minister Loek Hermans wants to collaborate with...
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World watch
Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has abolished the 10 per cent discretion on student admissions given to vice-chancellors, who have attacked the move as the usurpation of their powers. Students...
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Japanese unis are cut loose
TOKYO Japan's national universities are to be converted into independent agencies, education minister Akito Arima has announced. The minister's plan is intended to give the 99 universities greater...
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Kenya tells thousands to go to private sector
NAIROBI More than 21,000 students who qualified for higher education last year will not be admitted to Kenya's public universities. They have been officially advised to enter private universities....
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Serbs stay away from Pristina
PRISTINA A new term starts at the University of Pristina in the Kosovar capital on Monday but it is unlikely that Serbian academics and students will return, despite efforts by the international...
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World watch
Maurice Druon, the 81-year-old permanent secretary of the Academie Francaise, the body that guards the purity of the French language, has unprecedently announced he will retire at the end of the year...
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Academy tells Milosevic to go
Forty-five members of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences have called for a change of regime in Serbia and Yugoslavia. The academics issued an open letter warning that if Mr Milosevic remained...
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Student aid worker forgoes clubbing to teach English to eager Kosovars
DJAKOVA Anand Mehta is now back at the University of Southampton, where he is a pharmacology student, after two tours of relief work in Kosovo followed a spell in the Albanian refugee camps. A few...
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Knight's errand
The sale of Chadwyck-Healey has left its founder Pounds 30 million richer but Alison Goddard finds him looking to youth for new net challenges Last week Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey sold his eponymous...
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Councils share Pounds 4m costs of research into humanb side of IT
Adventurous research collaborations between social and computing scientists are being encouraged as the Economic and Social Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
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University picks Linux
Manchester Metropolitan University will use the open-source Linux operating system, combined with IBM's DB2 Universal Database, as the platform for delivering education and training to 1,200 students...
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Change for the phone
BT Cellnet has awarded a Pounds 10,000 bursary to fine-art postgraduate student John Reveler to study at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design for a year. During the year, he will design a cellular...
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Donosaurs bid to save distinction from extinction
In his scathing but affectionate portrayal of Oxford and Cambridge dons 30 or 40 years ago (page 20) Noel Annan quotes with evident agreement Jasper Rose and John Ziman's assertion that Oxbridge dons...
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Give quality respect it deserves
The media treatment of the Quality Assurance Agency's activity is becoming part of the story itself. It portrays an agency at war with the sector in an often personalised way, with pictures of John...