Latvia says Israel revoked degrees to cut costs
Israel's supreme court is to rule on an education ministry decision to invalidate degrees awarded by the local branch of the University of Latvia. The effect of the decision is to cancel salary...
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Students face prosecution as German finance ministry uncovers grant fraud scandal
Thousands of German students face fines or fraud charges for supplying false information to obtain government grants. A nationwide investigation by the finance ministry has concluded that every fifth...
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Spanish access trend is reversing
Progress on widening access to Spain's universities may be faltering after improving in the 1990s, according to the first study to look at access to higher education. Metropolitan Survey 2000...
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US to take lead in 'modernising' Iraq
US universities are to dominate efforts to rebuild Iraq's neglected and war-ravaged higher education sector, with a market-led outlook. The US Agency for International Development (USAid) this month...
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Washington
The American Association of University Professors has condemned the University of South Florida for "serious professional injury" to sacked computer science Professor Sami Al-Arian, who faces...
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Luxembourg
Ireland has the highest proportion of mathematics, science and technology graduates in the European Union, according to the EU statistical agency Eurostat in Luxembourg. In 2001, Ireland had 23.2...
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Rangoon
Universities across Burma that were closed in the wake of the attack on pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi may reopen this week, sources close to the military regime said.
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Monrovia
The University of Liberia has been deserted by students and staff as rebel forces and government troops skirmished on the outskirts of the campus, with looting reported by both sides.
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Nairobi
Kenya's newly registered union for university lecturers is demanding a pay rise from the current minimum of 50,000 shillings (£400) to 248,000 shillings a month. The Universities Academic Staff Union...
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Saving a Buddhist treasure trove
Inventory of Monuments at Pagan, Volume 8
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A life of loss and longing
Orwell - George Orwell
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When politicians spun out of control
The Wages of Spin - The Death of Spin
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A look at the world through western eyes
The New Penguin History of the World
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Making a splash down the ages
Boats of the World
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a first novel by a romantic poet: "The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and...