Glittering prizes
The University of Essex has awarded honorary degrees to: Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Ireland; psychologist Alan Baddeley; journalist Polly...
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Eye Witness
It is a year since King Hassan II of Morocco decided to appoint exiled socialist opposition leader Abderrahame Youssoufi as prime minister. Youssoufi's first act on return from France was to form a...
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The daily battle for justice
Universities must spend every day on the frontline of the fight for social equality, argues Brenda Gourley. London has reportedly overtaken Durban as the city with the largest population of Indians...
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Washington
A judge's decision that a law school graduate with a reading disorder should have been given extra time to complete the New York State bar exam has been overturned by the US Supreme Court. Marilyn...
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Canberra
The Australian government has lost its fight to make membership of university student associations voluntary. Although legislation banning compulsory collection of so-called student union fees was...
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Australia to get first Aboriginal university
Australia's only Aboriginal college is set to become the nation's first indigenous university. The former Batchelor College in the Northern Territory was renamed the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous...
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Arms raised
(Photograph) - Iranian students are leading a wave of pro-reform protests in Iran, the strongest expression of discontent since the Islamic fundamentalist overthrow of the Shah in 1979. A police and...
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Alleged unfair marking sparks unrest
Kenyan science minister Kipkalya Kones is looking into allegations of unfair marking by national examiners of polytechnic student papers. His move follows the indefinite closure last month of two...
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Distance learners get right to loans
For the first time, the US government has agreed to make tuition assistance available for degree-seeking students enrolled on distance-learning programmes. The decision reverses a policy under which...
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Tough exams blamed for dearth of lawyers
Japan urgently needs more law students to meet a national shortage of lawyers. The country's prolonged recession, which has been accompanied by a record number of corporate and personal bankruptcies...
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Soros largess plugs gap in Russian regions
Philanthropist and financier George Soros will target Russia's provincial universities in a drive to improve the quality of higher education in far flung regions. Mr Soros, who last month criticised...
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Spaniards urged to leave home
Spanish students are being encouraged to study away from home in a move to stimulate competition between universities and raise standards. The Spanish Rectors' Conference has unveiled a scheme to...
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Romania bows to minority pressure
The Romanian parliament has finally cleared the way for the establishment of the proposed Petoefi-Schiller University, which will teach in Hungarian and German, after two years of stormy debate. But...
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Hungarians consult the LSE over grants and loans reform
Hungarian education policy-makers are examining options for a loan and grant system as part of the process of implementing the country's higher education reform plans. When the Young Democrats party...
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Threats from deep space require deep thinking
Movies have been devoted to it, scientists make a fuss about it and, in the shape of Lembit Opik MP, it has a vocal parliamentary lobby. But the possible extermination of Homo sapiens by asteroid...