Glittering prizes
Alexandra Walsham, lecturer at the University of Exeter, has received the Pounds 1,000 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize 2000 for Providence in Early Modern England, published by Oxford...
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Eyewitness
India's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party government is accused by its critics of rewriting history and of trying to take control of state-funded academic institutions to push through a "jingoistic"...
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Violence spawns violence
Philippine university fraternity houses are out of control but their actions simply mirror a corrupt gun-toting society, writes Hugh Levinson. It was a long wait outside courtroom 312 in an airless...
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Bucharest
The Romanian Supreme Appeals Court has ruled in favour of establishing the planned Petoefi-Schiller University to offer courses taught in Romanian, Hungarian and German. The decision reversed the...
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Pisa
A French Jesuit Bible researcher has advanced a thesis that claims that Judas did not betray Christ. Javier Leon Dufour told the Italian religious monthly Paolini Jesus that in consigning Christ to...
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College finds itself big news in row over recruiting scab labour
A journalism department at an Ottawa university learnt a quick lesson in staff politics after a Calgary newspaper arrived to recruit summer interns. Carleton University's School of Journalism and...
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Oz wages war on student visa fraud
The ߣߣÊÓƵn government will take action against colleges that collude with overseas students to evade immigration regulations. The government will use electronic tracking of students and better...
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Brazil plans ambitious performance tables
Brazil is grading the performance of its universities through a national assessment of students' final examinations, Brazilian education minister Paulo Renato Souza explained during a visit to London...
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Ale fails in cattle battle
An American animal rights group that objects to the confinement of cows to produce milk has been forced to end a national advertising campaign encouraging university students to drink beer instead....
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Student mobility promoted for Spain
Spain's Bricall report proposes "revolutionary changes" to the higher education system with profound implications for Spanish students and staff. But author Josep Maria Bricall stressed that "...
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Private universities profit from ailing state system, says dean
Fulco Lanchester, dean of the political science faculty of Europe's largest and most crowded university, Rome's La Sapienza, does not mince words. "La Sapienza, with its 160,000 students, is like an...
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Father sues over quality of course
The father of two Dutch students has begun legal proceedings against the University of Amsterdam for what he claims is the poor quality of education they received on their course in communication...
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Vet fights to secure gender- sensitive Latin title
A woman vet's fight to be titled doctora of veterinary science has triggered linguistic turmoil in the northern German state of Lower Saxony. Maite Mathes, 39, sued the Hanover School of Veterinary...
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Mars probe contains Grand Prix technology
Technology used to protect the drivers of Formula 1 racing cars will shield the British Mars lander Beagle 2 on its descent to the surface of the red planet. McLaren Composites has been signed up to...
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Report opposed by academics
A group of 1,400 Canadian academics have put their name to a letter that urges prime minister Jean Chretien to reject a report on university commercialisation. The Canadian Association of University...