Japan's brightest to take fast track
University students with exceptional grades should be allowed to graduate after three years instead of the present four, according to Japan's University Council. The suggestion is part of a package...
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Coffin carriers
(Photograph) - Coffin carriers: the funeral of Sigit Prasetiya, one of at least 11 Indonesian students killed in clashes last week between security forces and thousands of demonstrators, passes a...
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Polish activists vow to win big budget U-turn
An ad hoc emergency committee of Polish academics has won a U-turn on higher education and research funding from finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz. Instead of planned cuts, next year's allocation...
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Catholic sackings stir debate on dogma
Two academics at Catholic universities in Italy have fallen foul of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a direct descendant of the Inquisition, for expressing doubts over points...
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Chomsky warns of corporate secrecy threat
Wellington Academic freedom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faces a bigger threat from the growth of corporate power in the United States than from the military, Noam Chomsky told...
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Madeira rector sparks row over handpicking council
The rector of the University of Madeira has been accused of stifling internal democracy in a row over new rules. Rector Jose Manoel Castanheira da Costa's proposals for changing the university...
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Slovenia stuck on Erasmus
Introduction of Erasmus, the European student mobility programme, in Slovenia is still troubled by a faltering university infrastructure, a lack of internal communication and delays in the European...
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Writers on the wall
(Photograph) - Writers on the wall: onlookers watch as Belgrade University students deliberately defy a new Serb law for which four of their colleagues were jailed for ten days this month. They had...
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A brush with the ink eradicators
As Microsoft strides into the emerging ebook market, Tim Greenhalgh finds the pioneers while Richard Harper and Abigail Sellen look at how new tech alters the way we read. Decades after they first...
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Growth prompts V-cs to go private
The Australian Vice-chancellors' Committee has decided to hive off its internet arm, the Australian Academic Research Network, as a private company to operate the rapidly expanding electronic system...
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Qualified success
The software company Oracle is to give United Kingdom students the opportunity to acquire a Certified Oracle Practitioner qualification as part of their degree course. Universities where the scheme...
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Scout free
The Scout report, a leading US information source on Internet resources, is now mirrored at Bristol University (www.ilrt.bris. ac.uk/mirrors/ scout/report/). In return, the University of Wisconsin-...
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Reading, writhing and arithmetic
In The Uncommon Reader, the literary theorist George Steiner described how the nature of reading has changed over the past few centuries. He illustrated this by examining the depiction of reading in...
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Wanted: strategy to meet yearning for learning
Ensuring access to education is crucial to a lifelong learning strategy so it is time for joined-up thinking says Chris Hughes. The education world is buzzing in anticipation of an extra 500,000...
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Lessons after the cavalry's dust has settled
What lessons are to be drawn from the debacle at Thames Valley University? First, is to note that honourable and regrettably rare event: the prompt resignation of vice-chancellor, Mike Fitzgerald....