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Students face 40% rent rise at Oxford Oxford undergraduates face rent increases of up to 40 per cent after bursars scrapped historic cost of living subsidies. The increases this autumn, revealed in a...
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Diversity felled by a taste for tea
Tropical Pioneers
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Global e-university yetto get off the ground
An ambitious joint venture between universities from four continents has had teething problems. Geoff Maslen reports from Melbourne Nearly 18 months after its announcement as the "world's premier...
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Spiritual take on earthly problems
Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia
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Alliance to fill gap in online market
A group of top research universities, Universitas 21, has launched an online MBA as a first step to capturing a $111 billion (£66.7 billion) untapped postgraduate market. U21 Global, a partnership...
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A legal legacy on which the sun has never set
Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal
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Commonwealth Science Council to sharpen focus on technology and innovation
Brussels, 25 Jun 2003 The Commonwealth Science Council (CSC) is to revive itself with a renewal plan which will outline ways in which the organisation can increase its focus on technology and...
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Nature highlights use of space imagery to study Indonesian fires
Paris, 06 Nov 2002 Writing in tomorrow's issue of Nature magazine, a team of European and Indonesian scientists detail their use of ESA and NASA satellite imagery to help measure huge amounts of...
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Find your niche
The Medical Research Council is keen to invest in innovators willing to take risks, Colin Blakemore tells Anna Fazackerley, but he advises all young researchers to consider a career strategy Colin...
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International Internet survey reveals series of digital divides
Brussels, 20 Jan 2004 A new study by the UCLA (University of California in Los Angeles) center for communication policy on Internet use in Europe, Asia and the US has confirmed the existence of a...
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International Internet survey reveals series of digital divides
Brussels, 20 Jan 2004 A new study by the UCLA (University of California in Los Angeles) center for communication policy on Internet use in Europe, Asia and the US has confirmed the existence of a...
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We must build bridges - our future depends on it
Universities are in a prime position to develop relationships between disparate cultures, writes Hans van Ginkel Connectivity, change and convergence are generic features of the world in which we...
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Bring your ambition, but not your maid
Qatar is vastly wealthy but short on skilled nationals. Four US colleges are setting up on its space-age campus to tackle the issue, says Wendy Wallace Education City, in Doha, is Qatar's...
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Possible answers to a plaguing question
Brussels, 20 May 2004 A Soviet-era research centre may hold the key to why bubonic plague has never been stamped out. Thanks to EU and international support, four decades of data is being converted...
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Oxymoronic efforts to put up imperial borders
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of US Culture