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While attention is concentrated on the unfolding drama of the Kosovo peace process after Rambouillet, Croatia is preparing for parliamentary elections later this year. The Croatian Democratic Union (...
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Blackstone ties FE-training knot
Significant British involvement in South African further education and training is likely following a visit by Labour education and employment minister Baroness Blackstone and a high-powered...
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Laws will 'create army of generals'
Italy's parliament is discussing a new law to "promote" all university researchers to professorships. If the legislation goes through, the role of researcher will disappear, to be absorbed into a...
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Resolution fails to win debate in European Parliament
A resolution supporting foreign lecturers, who claim breaches of European employment law by Italy's universities, failed to win a debate in the European Parliament last week, but is expected to have...
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Palestine colleges run short of cash
A number of universities in the territories run by the Palestinian Authority are facing a severe funding shortfall. Palestinian universities are private bodies and have little or no state support....
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Guiding spirit takes class on a trip
Jack Miller gets his Toronto University class underway by turning off the lights and telling his students to close their eyes. If students monitor their feelings better, they will become better...
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Union rejects plans for 10 per cent tax
A proposed goods and services tax (GST) threatens Australian higher education funding, according to the national academic union. In a submission to a senate inquiry into the tax, the National...
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Fiery pay protest burns itself out
The walkout by Cambodian lecturers and high-school teachers last month was a firebrand protest. Hundreds of them assembled at the education ministry in Phnom Penh with paraffin and a pile of used...
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Court to rule on age bias lawsuits
The US Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether public university faculty staff can sue for age discrimination in a case involving more than 30 professors in Florida and Alabama. Lower courts have...
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A definitively flexible expression
Get a life, virtually speaking. Tony Durham traces the often rugged history of virtuality The word "virtual" is used for many things which are not quite what they seem. But it probably found its way...
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Slide rule maths doubles computer speeds
Computer arithmetic is not a fast-moving field. World conferences on the subject happen only once every two years, which in "internet time" is like waiting for Halley's comet to come round again....
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Getting physical
(Photograph) - To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the Institute of Physics has launched a campaign this month to demonstrate how physics has changed our lives
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No need to travel on the open road to First Class learning
Get a life, virtually speaking. Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Bill is a student. It is 10pm on a Saturday night. Where is he? Let us guess. He is checked in at the Log...
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Get a life, virtually speaking
Educators are now grappling with the real issues created by the emergence of digital spaces, David Squires reports. Below, Hazel Burke explores the sociable side of a virtual campus Virtual worlds...
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OU looks to indies for content
The Open University is to invite independent producers to make programmes for the channel in competition with its own production department. Under its new agreement with the Higher Education Funding...