Stockholm
Swedish prime minister Goran Persson and minister of education and science Thomas Ostros last month opened new universities at Orebro and Vaxsjo. Both have been upgraded from university college...
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Eye witness
Scientists are split over the death sentence awaiting Britain's 4,000 introduced North American ruddy ducks. Environment minister Michael Meacher has decided to allow a cull after considering a...
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Primary choice
A consortium of the University of North London, the Borough of Lambeth and the IT Learning Exchange, has been selected as an approved New Opportunities Fund to provide Information and Communications...
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Jewish college in drive for recruits
The London College of Jewish Studies is abandoning full-time degree courses for school-leavers in favour of a radical lifelong learning agenda that will open doors to older people with no formal...
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Don's Diary
Sunday New year's resolution: work less, relax more. But what else do you do if you wake at 7.00am on a winter Sunday and V is still asleep? I'm reading Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, which I have never...
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Glittering prizes
Businessman and philanthropist Sir Sigmund Sternberg, awarded last year's Templeton prize for progress in religion, has become the first non-head of state to receive the Rotary International Award of...
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Taking a title role
Just when you thought he was about to retire, Lord Dearing steps into the breach once more, with impeccable civil service tact, to take on all those difficult education jobs that no one else seems to...
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Florence
Students at Florence University have accused academics of "callousness" and "indifference" when they continued with oral examinations after a 23-year-old student died of heart failure while waiting...
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San Francisco
Eight students from minority background are suing the University of California at Berkeley for discriminatory admissions procedures. They were turned down despite very high scores on standardised...
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Palermo
A court decision annulling more than 25 statutes at the University of Palermo has been strongly criticised as a major potential setback to single university autonomy. The Sicilian regional...
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Why academic life is sweet
An extended family, secret societies and camaraderie I Harvey J. Kaye extols the professorial career These days American academics rarely speak publicly about the delights of donnish life. No doubt...
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Historian's election opposed for questioning 'Armenian genocide'
Paris The appointment of a prominent historian to one of France's most celebrated higher education institutions has provoked claims that he has questioned whether the deaths of hundreds of thousands...
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People's University challenge to regime
Belarus, where higher education is coming under increasing pressure from the authoritarian regime of president Alaksandr Lukashenka, has become the latest country in Europe to launch an alternative...
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Clinton turns from colleges to schools
The Clinton administration has firmly shifted its priorities away from widening access to colleges in favour of school improvements. Education secretary Richard Riley confirmed the priority following...
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Smart to be simple
Harold Thimbleby challenges the view that lifelong learning should equip people to cope with an ever more complex world Each person now consumes more energy, travels faster and is able to consume...