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Trends in HE: Online pioneer blooms with 'join-anytime' offer

As student demand for more flexible ways of studying grow, a Canadian online university that has abandoned that central building-block, the semester, is attracting international attention. Athabasca...

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...

Trends in HE: Is bigger better? Student performance in a growing sector

When torture is the least evil of terrible options

The US's refusal to openly debate the possibility of non-lethal torture led to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, argues Alan Dershowitz. Is it possible to engage in a rational discussion about the...

Epic tale of facing up to Achilles heel

Lady Luck can be a great ally - or foe, as US cadets found by simulating the battles of the Iliad. Lt Col Ted Westhusing and Tom Palaima report. If you have seen Brad Pitt as Achilles in Wolfgang...

Cash cow gets one up on 3 lions

As Euro 2004 kicks off, Richard Giulianotti looks at the rise of football nationalism but finds that club loyalty is the true victor Football's European Championship finals kick off this weekend in...

Dear Derrida...

Philosopher Simon Blackburn is a participant in next week's philosophy conference on truth and realism at St Andrews University (June 17-20) http:///www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pmg2/index2.html Here he...

Real life in the faculty of death

Decades of paramilitary conflict are taking their toll on Colombian higher education, reports Toby Muse. Jose Luna, a 54-year-old agriculture professor, taught for seven years at the Córdoba...

Proposed Decision on the Promotion, Provision and Use of Galileo and GPS Satellite Navigation Systems and Related Applications (link)

Brussels, 09 Jun 2004 Full text of Document 10211/04 Suite of documents 10211/04 Proposal for a Decision of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the...

GALILEO (Extract from: Préparation du Conseil Transport du 11 juin)

Bruxelles, le 9 juin 2004 ( COM/03/471 (COM/03/471) ( IP/03/1141 ) La proposition de règlement sur les structures de gestion du programme Galileo adoptée le 1er août 2003 prévoit la création de deux...

EU-Israel Agreement on a Civil GNSS (link)

Brussels, 09 Jun 2004 Full text of Document 9479/1/04 Revision 01 Suite of documents 9479/1/04 No. Cion prop.: 8926/04 TRANS 178 MAR 66 AVIATION 102 RECH 82 ISR 5 Subject: EU-ISRAEL AGREEMENT ON A...

Assessment of the European terrestrial carbon balance

Brussels, 09 Jun 2004 Title: Assessment of the European terrestrial carbon balance - Acronym: CarboEurope - Project summary: The overarching aim of the CarboEurope-IP is to understand and quantify...

Commissaire Philippe Busquin: Réunion du Comité Intégration européenne de l’UITP

Bruxelles, le 9 juin 2004 Réunion du Comité Intégration européenne de l’UITP Bruxelles, le 9 juin 2004 Mesdames et Messieurs, Je vous remercie de m’avoir invité à participer à votre réunion d’aujourd...

Admission of Third Countries Researchers (Extract from: Provisional Version, Justice and Home Affairs Council of 8 June)

Brussels, 09 Jun 2004 The Council, pending the opinion from the European Parliament, reached a general approach on the proposal for a Council Recommendation aimed to facilitate the admission of third...

EURAB completes first term

Brussels, 09 Jun 2004 The European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) has completed its first term, and will welcome 21 new members when the new term begins on 15 June. The completion of the board's...