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As the rescue mission in Honduras and Guatemala turns into an attempt to reconstruct their shattered infrastructures and economies, and the trail of world figures through the region slows to a...
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Lessons from the new kids
Eastern Europe could inspire the UK to break from its Victorian governance patterns and its large bureacuracies, argues Dennis Farrington. The Council of Europe's legislative reform programme has...
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A share option too good to miss
Scottish researchers have received a boost with the launch of a new collaborative venture, writes Olga Wojtas. Scottish higher education institutions have received an Pounds 80,000 incentive to share...
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Ear, ear
(Photograph) - Student Alexander Turner and centre co-ordinator Patsy Stark work on a dummy at the new clinical skills learning centre, University of Leeds School of Medicine.
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MPs get lessons in social science
In an effort to gain more recognition for the social sciences and humanities, 65 of Canada's top researchers this month met for two days with more than 100 politicians and senior civil servants in...
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Baby boomers like their creature comforts
First-year students so enjoy the creature comforts of campus life in the United States that they are staying into their second and third years, compounding the squeeze on college housing. Suites and...
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Australia strengthens China ties
The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee has signed an historic exchange agreement with China. AVCC president John Niland went to Beijing to sign the agreement on behalf of Australian universities...
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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...