Qinghua University
Qinghua Qinghua University has given the go-ahead to a number of students who want to open or join businesses. Students will retain their student status for two years. Half of the 16 businesses at...
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Don's diary
Sunday Arrive in Perth, Western Australia, after a long haul and a quick reviving shower in Singapore. Spent the waking hours in conversation with two backpacking postgraduates, a geologist and a...
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Downright rude Latin
Traditionalists may deplore the decline in the number of classical scholars, but Dundee University is doing its best to attract a new generation. Its list of courses for adults in the coming year...
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All you need to know
Open government is the new watchword at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, to judge from the invitation to tender for its massive new evaluation of research funding. A bulk email...
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Trust William
Talk about unlucky. No sooner does Bristol University decide to spend considerable amounts of time and money making itself more attractive to students from lower social classes, than Prince William...
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Give your don a break
Surprise! Academics at Salford University were in the midst of a student discussion group when who should burst in but comedian Les Dennis announcing they were all on TV. Student Mark Small had been...
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In the news
When John Andrews retires next May as chief executive of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils for Wales he will leave Welsh post-16 education transformed, even without the wholesale...
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Albania in drive to reach EU standard
ROME Italy is leading a drive to bring Albania into the European higher education network and bring its universities up to modern standards. Italian and Albanian government and university officials...
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Russians guided through linguistic jungle
MOSCOW Russian is a notoriously difficult language to learn and even natives often stumble over the grammatical complexities of declensions and conjugations. Grammars and dictionaries do not always...
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On the move
The Rt Hon. The Lord Paul of Marylebone, chairman of the Caparo Manufacturing Group, is to be the new chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton. He succeeds the university's first chancellor, the...
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Aid is a hand-out to tyranny
Donald Hagger condemns the blinkered theories behind western aid to Indonesia's brutal government As Indonesia descends into chaos, severe doubts arise about the theories of development aid that have...
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University of Cuzco
Cuzco Students at the University of Cuzco have protested against Peruvian government plans to build a cable car in the heart of Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas and the most famous ruins in...
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Each of Denmark
Copenhagen Each of Denmark's 40,000 new higher education students will buy textbooks worth about DKr30,000 (Pounds 2,655) from bookshops owned by the students' associations during their studies. The...
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University of Puerto Rico
San Juan About 300 students from the University of Puerto Rico protested last week against the US military's continuing occupation of a training ground on the outlying Caribbean island of Vieques....
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Australian university students
Canberra Australian university students are expected to owe more than Aus$10 billion (Pounds 4 billion) by early next century. The debt is being accrued every year the students remain at university...