Path that crosses cultures
Immigrants want their children to retain a sense of their community and to be modern, writes Wang Gungwu At a conference in Singapore on modern education in immigrant communities, we were recently...
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The Spanish government has presented long-awaited proposals to tackle water shortages, but experts are worried the cure may be worse than the disease. The National Hydrology Plan concentrates on the...
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Abakhan
The eastern Siberian republic of Khakassia, part of the Russian Federation, has offered to pay for the university education of the sister of one of the victims of the Kursk submarine disaster. The...
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Buenos Aires
Twenty state university rectors have handed a letter to President Fernando de la RNoa's office. In it, they warn that they can no longer guarantee universities will function properly because of cuts...
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Paris
Marie-Francoise Bechtel has become the first woman director of ENA, France's elite school of administration that trains high-fliers for the civil service. A former philosophy teacher and a graduate...
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Washington
More than a quarter of Americans aged over 25 have degrees, compared with 21.3 per cent a decade ago, and only 4.6 per cent in 1940, according to figures released by the United States Census Bureau....
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Elite study offered to poor
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is to set aside a quota of places on prestigious first-degree courses, including medicine, law and psychology, for students from low socioeconomic groups. The...
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Germans fight Anglo invasion
The rector of Munich University has been named Sprachpanscher (language violator) of the year by an organisation that campaigns to protect the German language for proposing to change the university's...
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Jospin spokesman added to Socialist 'corruption' list
The official spokesman for prime minister Lionel Jospin is the latest Socialist Party member to face unwelcome attention during investigations into fraud and corruption at France's former largest...
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Brain drain blamed on student loans
New Zealand's student loan system is driving graduates overseas, with the number of borrowers leaving the country almost doubling in just one year. The exodus is causing difficulties in collecting...
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People skills are checked by test
ߣߣÊÓƵn students could soon be taking a general skills test both after enrolment and before graduation. The Graduate Skills Assessment test will help monitor student progress, provide additional...
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Protests lead to merger
Santiago's Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (UMCE) is to merge back with the University of Chile, Chilean education minister Mariana Aylwin has announced. The Chilean parliament is...
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Soldiers need degree for promotion
Officers in Kenya's armed forces face new rules that peg their promotion to possession of a degree in military science. Daudi Tonje, chief of the general staff, expects the rules to improve the...
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Distance-learning plan stalled
The relationship has cooled between Universitas 21 and Worldwide Learning, the News Corporation company with which U21 intended to establish a joint-venture company offering distance-learning courses...
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3-D camera to reveal sea life
A new camera that captures 3-D images for display as holograms was unveiled on Monday at the University of Loughborough. The Holocam will benefit marine biologists, divers surveying damage to sub-sea...