Virtual volcano training
Humanitarian workers facing complex emergencies such as the volcanic destruction of Goma and famine in Afghanistan may in future be offered realistic training using computer simulations. Researchers...
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Fed-up French postgrads tackle sex pest taboo
Sexual harassment - a taboo topic in French higher education - is being challenged by a group of postgraduates who are gaining support across the university system. Clasches (Collectif de Lutte Anti-...
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Ireland's image hit by racial attacks
Racist attacks on foreign students in Ireland are threatening a rapidly expanding business worth at least €450 million (£5 million) a year. "Ten years ago overseas students used to say it's much...
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Law professor sacked over porn videos
A law professor at the University of Camerino in central Italy has been sacked for allegedly making videos of his sexual encounters with female students in his office, writes Paul Bompard. Ezio...
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Don's Diary: Posting in paradise
Week one Madang, Papua New Guinea, is often described as the prettiest town in the Pacific. I am here for two years to teach journalism at Divine Word University. At the end of the drive is a lagoon...
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Turks crack down on Kurd campaign
Demonstrations demanding that Kurdish be used in Turkish universities have triggered a crackdown and numerous arrests. According to the main Kurdish party, Hadep, more than 5,000 people have been...
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Ambitious US fighters weather the storm
THES reporters find out how enrolments on MBA courses around the world have fared in the face of slowing economies and the aftermath of September 11 September 11 added to the gathering clouds of...
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Argentina braced for a decline in interest
THES reporters find out how enrolments on MBA courses around the world have fared in the face of slowing economies and the aftermath of September 11. Luis Pereiro, interim dean of the Business School...
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It is business as usual for robust global winner
THES reporters find out how enrolments on MBA courses around the world have fared in the face of slowing economies and the aftermath of September 11. Michael Vitale, dean of the Australian Graduate...
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Merit is victor as Japan says sayonara to hierarchy
THES reporters find out how enrolments on MBA courses around the world have fared in the face of slowing economies and the aftermath of September 11. Five years ago a Japanese student wishing to...
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A qualification to provide shelter from recession
THES reporters find out how enrolments on MBA courses around the world have fared in the face of slowing economies and the aftermath of September 11. International MBAs would be particularly...
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Alarm at narrow focus of funding
The Australian government has generated alarm across the nation's higher education sector by specifying that A$170 million (£61 million) of research funding must go to four priority areas. Federal...
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Texas dean in Enron role
The University of Texas law school, whose dean is leading Enron's own inquiry into its corporate collapse, received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company, university officials confirmed...
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Thai bank to tackle student debtors
Executives from the state-run Krung Thai Bank, which oversees Thailand's student loan programme, are recommending legal action against thousands of graduates who default on payments and squander...
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University challenge
Private tutor Mike Stein has written to education secretary Estelle Morris warning her that he intends to commit an act of civil disobedience after his complaint that British higher education...