American takeover leads to punch-up
BARCELONA. Friction between the owners of a Spanish private university over its sale to a United States-based international education provider has degenerated into violence on campus and ensuing...
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Outlook bleak for Sub-Sahara study
NAIROBI. The quality of higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa will deteriorate as long as universities remain caught in the web of soaring student numbers, academic repression and savage budget cuts...
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Traffic death sparks student riots
Kenyatta University has closed following student riots that led to the death of a police officer and scores of injured students and police, writes Wachira Kigotho. The students also set ten vehicles...
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Albright calms fear
BOSTON. United States secretary of state Madeleine Albright has given an unqualified endorsement to international education exchanges, which university officials worry may be threatened by the merger...
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Ivory tower
(Photograph) - Oscar Peterson, the legendary Montreal-born jazz pianist who has struggled with arthritis and a stroke that all but stilled his left hand, listens to a performance of his music to...
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Rector calls on elite to privatise
HAMBURG. Germany's top universities should be floated on the stock market to make them more internationally competitive, a prominent Social Democrat education expert has recommended. Peter Glotz,...
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Students expelled for Islamic dress
TASHKENT. Students are routinely expelled from universities and other higher education establishments for wearing Islamic-style dress or beards, Human Rights Watch claimed in a report that alleges...
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Star teacher
WorldSpace Corporation's AfriStar satellite has begun digital radio broadcasts to developing countries across the whole of Africa and the Middle East. The satellite will supply more than 25 channels...
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Payback time for no-show dentist
ROME. A dental surgeon at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia may have to pay back over ¤24,800 (Pounds 16,000) of his salary after being found guilty of failing to teach the 50 hours per...
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Dublin's IT strategy pays off
A multi-million pound investment in national IT education and training by the Irish government has produced a swift, unexpected return. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is close to...
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Student protests force Gates snub
MONTREAL. A west-coast Canadian university showed that it would not be swayed by Bill Gates's recent gifts to the higher education sector when it refused him an honorary degree. Student...
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Trainers set national quality controls for e-commerce training
Two national training organisations have launched an accreditation scheme for courses in e-commerce. Anne Russell, chief executive of the Information Technology National Training Organisation (ITNTO...
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Need to know
Why pay Pounds 13,600 a year for Encyclopaedia Britannica online, as a 50,000-user university does under the current Chest deal, when all Britannica's 44 million words are available free at...
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Pass by a whisker
Exam board Edexcel is to support colleges and other centres delivering MOUS, a qualification for users of Microsoft Office applications. Test centres set their own prices but are expected to charge...
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Readers' reactions
Sue Blackmore Reader in psychology University of the West of England, Bristol. Clarification. Sue Blackmore spells out why the teaching quality assessment exercise displays scant regard for the truth...