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Aids epidemic threatens western Europe, warns UN The fastest-growing Aids epidemic in the world will soon be knocking on Western Europe's door, United Nations officials warned yesterday. The...
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Afghans renew call for support
Afghanistan's five universities are beset with corruption, underfunding and poor living conditions, despite the international community's expressed intentions. In February, entrance exams taken by 40...
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Canada's police complaints commission has urged the Mounties to apologise to student protesters for "inappropriate actions" at a Vancouver meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
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Preparation of the Competitiveness Council of Ministers, Luxembourg, 11th October 2005 –
Brussels, 10 October 2005 The EU Competitiveness Council will meet in Luxembourg on Tuesday 11th October at 10.00 under the chairmanship of, the Alan Johnson, United Kingdom Secretary of State for...
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Trends in HE: For-profit champion rebrands
Sylvan Learning Systems, the Baltimore-based world leader in for-profit higher education, announced last month that it will change its name to Laureate Education. The company will, however, continue...
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'Gifted' tick box that could cost pupils a university place Sixth-formers competing for places at leading universities may lose out if they have not signed up to a scheme for gifted children because...
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Target woman
Tuberculosis is no long-gone scourge but a deadly modern-day disease that is increasingly resistant to treatment. Anna Fazackerley meets a woman seeking new ways to attack the bacterium that causes...
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NASA Funds Study of World's Glaciers - Key Indicators of Climate Change
Washington, 13 Aug 2003 Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder will combine historical records with measurements from satellites to complete an online database of the world's glaciers...
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Who really planted the kiss of death?
Rats are off the hook when it comes to the Great Plague, say Christopher Duncan and Susan Scott. Ask anyone about the Black Death or the Great Plague of London and they will say, while perhaps being...
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The rise of occidental heroes and villains
Civilised or overly materialistic? Alistair Bonnett asks how the West is seen through Eastern eyes. Many academic fashions spring from nowhere and return there soon after. The study of occidentalism...
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Call yourself cosmopolitan?
Embracing global opportunity is about more than cashing in on overseas students, says Frank Furedi. One of the most exciting features of a university is its embrace of global influences. Ideas have...
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Portrait of a doomed Sea
Paris, 28 Jul 2003 Earth's youngest desert is shown in this July MERIS satellite image of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, over the last 40 years the Aral Sea...
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Saving Private Hubble
Paris, 09 Jul 2004 To study neighbouring planets, distant stars and galaxies light years away, astronomers have constantly strived to improve their instruments. But for years, our Earth's atmosphere...
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..but it's cold comfort for our hot times
Climate Change and Biodiversity - Climate Change and Africa
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How many 'squirrels' would you be given?
League tables have proliferated since the weekly US News and World Report launched its consumer-oriented rankings in 1983. Now the Princeton Review covers the field from the performance of faculty to...