A shift in Europe's border conflicts
Academia is putting the post-communist states on its map. Michael Waller reports RENEWED tension in Kosovo and the banning of the Welfare Party in Turkey cannot but push the Islamic question higher...
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Sir Ron takes Melbourne seat
SIR RON Dearing is to become one of two overseas members of Melbourne University's new governing council in 1998. It is the first time an ߣߣÊÓƵn university has invited distinguished foreign...
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Demand for degrees out strips supply
France has belatedly started a determined campaign to catch up with its "Anglo-Saxon" competitors in the international market of higher education, setting out to entice foreign students, particularly...
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Fellowships
Welsh College of Music and Drama Honorary fellowships have been awarded to: Keith Allen, actor; Roy Bohana, music director of the Arts Council for Wales to 1997; Julian Bream, lutenist; Rebecca Evans...
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Net speeds to next level
The high-speed internet moved a stage closer last week with the demonstration in the United States of virtual surgery, broadcast-quality video and terabyte-size data library transfers over a national...
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Should freedom cover racial science?
The scientific study of race, says Professor Jean-Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario, is proscribed by a "taboo" that has "no parallel I not the Inquisition, not Stalin, not Hitler...
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Cutting edge
No vaccine or drugs exist for a virus disease found in more than 100 countries and placing some 2,000 million people at risk. This is the reality of dengue, which occurs in tropical and subtropical...
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V-cs tackle underhand enrolment tactics
The ߣߣÊÓƵn Vice-Chancellors' Committee has toughened its code of ethical practice following allegations that some universities had used questionable tactics to boost their enrolments of overseas...
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Invisible universities offer tangible rewards
Globalisation and the knowledge-based economy pose challenges to all purveyors of tertiary education, argues Jamil Salmi Imagine a university without buildings or classrooms or even a library, 10,000...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Recent-history revelations are everywhere this weekend: part two of BBC2's Spying Game, the finale of C4's Can't Pay,...
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A bit of profit and gloss
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History's bigger picture
This week's Anglo-American historians' conference in London aims to take on the world. Alan Mcafarlane charts its trends It is always worth looking at the development of theoretical systems from the...
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Recruitment drive Down Under
The British Council will launch a drive this month to attract more ߣߣÊÓƵn students to study in Britain. It wants to boost the numbers by 70 per cent over the next three years to more than 3,000....
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Pacific perspectives
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