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  1. Civil servants' heavenly fall

    Tokyo. SENIOR Japanese civil servants are sidestepping golden jobs in the business world when they retire to take lecturing posts with leading universities. Yoshimasa Nishimura, former director...

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  2. Women join the training net from Canada to Tuvalu

    THE first electronic network to be set up for women working in technical and vocational education and training in the Asia Pacific region has attracted interest from more than 20 countries. The...

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  4. Wellcome pioneers

    In some regions, a little funding can make a big difference. Julia Hinde reports on two units in Asia doing ground-breaking work The Wellcome Trust may be Britain's largest and most influential...

  5. State grip too tight for comfort

    FROM THE hothouse universities of the tiger economies of the Far East to Africa's riot-torn and constantly closed campuses, there is a wealth of anecdotal evidence to suggest growing state...

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  7. Appointments

    University of Buckingham Robert Taylor, pro-director at the School of Oriental and African Studies, will succeed Richard Luce in January 1997 as vice chancellor. University of Kent at Canterbury...

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  9. First-class degrees on wane

    THE NUMBER of students gaining top honours is falling, according to statistics published today. But the male/female divide remains, with 7.7 per cent of male students who achieved degrees in 1995/96...

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  10. Rise of Anglo-Chinese

    In this part of the world, it is commonplace to argue that English is important to the Chinese because of its usefulness in trade and finance. Anyone who is bilingual in Chinese and English can...

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  11. Kiss your cousins goodbye

    Orang-utans, our third closest relatives, are barely hanging on as a species. Researchers trying to study them are also under attack. Aisling Irwin reports As the rope bridge across the rainforest...

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  12. World's Largest Switchboard for Climate Monitoring

    Paris, 26 February 2002 Europe's showpiece in climate monitoring is called Envisat. Fully equipped, the largest, most complex, and most powerful Earth observation satellite of the European Space...