Pompidou plan for Muscovites
A Pounds 6 MILLION plan to refurbish and extend Moscow's library of foreign literature to create an international education and cultural centre reflects an increasing awareness in Russia of the...
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Network needed to spread Commonwealth word
COMMONWEALTH An attempt to breathe new life into the idea of an Association for Commonwealth Studies is to be made during the heads of government meeting. An association to act as a network for...
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Joint attack on disease
ISRAELI scientists from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School and their colleagues from a Palestinian university in east Jerusalem are planning joint research on a parasite that causes a skin...
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Turkey in row over Islam ban
A DECISION by Turkey's university authority to withdraw recognition of degrees awarded by the world-famous Al Hazar University in Egypt has provoked a diplomatic storm with allegations of an anti-...
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Salary rise tied to commitment statement
MORE THAN 6,500 Greek academics will receive pay increases of up to 35 per cent from the new year if a bill belatedly submitted to parliament by education secretary Gerasimos Arsenis becomes law as...
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Hungarian students are excluded
TWO first-year students from Slovakia's ethnic Hungarian minority have been excluded from a vocational training college in Dunajska Streda because - according to the head of the college - they could...
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Time for Oxbridge to think again
PERHAPS the biggest faux pas I have ever made, and there have been some whoppers, was towelcome the new students to Cambridge with a rant against the inequities of the parental contribution grants...
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Indian police chief leads scholar force
COMMONWEALTH A POLICE superintendent who doubles as a television quiz master and an advertising manager who is also a leading classical dancer are among the first Chevening Gurukul scholars who...
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Small states get security conscious
COMMONWEALTH Well over half the Commonwealth's 52 countries have populations of less than 1.5 million and are defined as small states. A concern for Commonwealth leaders over the decades has been the...
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Don's diary
Monday Got back from Oxford on a rambling grey bus, which eventually reaches Cambridge after lurching along the scenic route for three hours. I had been there to hand in my MSc dissertation, due in...
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Scotland welcomes a cultural infusion
COMMONWEALTH THE FOUR-DAY Commonwealth heads of government meeting nestles within a dazzling array of celebratory events at Edinburgh University that began in June with a lecture from Commonwealth...
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Football wife contests will
THE WEALTHY widow of a multi-millionaire American football team owner wants to withdraw his $10 million contribution to their alma mater, the University of Alabama, even though the university already...
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Totting up
(Photograph) - Totting up: two-year-old Andreas Lang receives an infant scientist degree from Martha Piper, University of British Columbia president, and chancellor William Sauder as his mother...
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Devaluation hits students
AUSTRALIAN universities fear that the currency crisis in southeast Asia could hit the number of fee-paying students studying here. Evidence from their recruiting officials in Indonesia, Malaysia, the...
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Asians praise British quality
AN AUSTRALIAN survey of students in six Asian countries has found that they rank universities in the United Kingdom highest in terms of course standards and recognition of qualifications, writes...