Turning a drop into a ripple
Will the shift in British third world aid to 'in-country' training be a more effective strategy? asks Sheila Vaughan It has taken Britain about 40 years to realise that training aid for developing...
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Cleveland
Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore has launched a plan to widen college access by making tuition tax-deductible, giving tax credits and deductions for college saving, keeping down interest...
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Mostar
The senate of Mostar University has dismissed the president of the university, Marko Tadic. United States ambassador to Bosnia, Thomas Miller, said attacks on the president, which have been...
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Milosevic sends in the thugs
Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, not content with stripping universities of their autonomy, has resorted to new, violent methods of dealing with his critics in academia. A protest at Belgrade...
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Students defiant after police raid Belgrade HQ
The Yugoslav student-based resistance movement Otpor staged a defiant but symbolic gesture after a police raid last week on its Belgrade headquarters, writes Gillian Sandford from Belgrade. Anti-...
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Palestinian rape victims turn to novel champion
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's apartment is the first stop for many Palestinian women on their way to pray at the nearby Dome of the Rock Mosque in the old city of Jerusalem. Many of them are victims of...
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Germans host Expo campus
For 100 days until mid-October, Hanover is hosting a unique experiment - the first International Women's University, comprising hundreds of academics and students from 115 countries. Set up as a...
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Simmering student unrest hits Mexico City
Against a background of waving tricolours, chanted slogans, revolutionary songs by students from the national school of music and placards calling for free love and a free public university, students...
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Readers' reactions
A fortnight ago in The THES.. Mary Beard celebrated the 'dirty bits' being restored to the Loeb Classical Library What a strange piece from Mary Beard about the "dirty" bits in classical literature....
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Got to go to market
The Tories' new endowment scheme should be more radical, says David Blanchflower The diagnosis is in - British universities need enormous transfusions of cash and they need them now. Without this...
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Russia to overhaul entrance exams
Russia is to introduce a single, nationwide combined school leaving and university entrance examination next year, education minister Vladimir Filippov has confirmed. In a television interview, he...
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Central Asia to launch first course in mountain studies
The world's first university devoted to mountain studies is to be set up in one of Central Asia's most remote and rugged regions to focus international academic attention on mountain cultures,...
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Smarter thinking
Two seminars to provide information to academics and businesses about the People at the Centre of Communication and Information Technologies research (Paccit Link) programme are being held next...
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Edinburgh gold
A new website administered by Edinburgh University will allow sports commentators at the forthcoming Olympics to call on fascinating facts to add depth to their coverage. Among the most intriguing...
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More credit
The Open University has launched an online service that allows prospective students to log on and access a step-by-step guide to credit transfer with confirmation on whether previous studies qualify...