Happiness is a sheathed gun
A spate of violent attacks has forced the reassessment of the American high school, says Sheldon Rothblatt Puberty has been captured by the most commercialised popular culture ever known, with...
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French president Jacques Chirac has awarded the Legion d'Honneur to Janne Carlsson, rector of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1988 to 1999, for exceptional devotion to the...
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Vladimir Zaitzev, director of the National Library in St Petersburg, is among a group of Russian artists and intellectuals awarded a new Alexander Pushkin medal for achievements in culture and...
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Malta makes plans for Italian campus
The University of Malta plans to open an international university near the centre of Rome. Students will pay about Pounds 7,500 a year to attend the Link Campus University of Malta, where they will...
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One in five German students has never heard of bachelor or master degrees nearly a year after the titles were introduced into Germany's higher education system. Only one in eight students said they...
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The third oldest known Etruscan text, dating from the late 3rd or 4th century BC, has been identified by archaeologist Francesco Nicosia and Luciano Agostiniani, professor of historical linguistics...
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Job adverts put college in court
A university in the Canary Islands is being taken to court over allegations that its practice of advertising jobs at the height of the holiday season discriminates against external candidates. The...
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Quota keeps unis out of Cypriot fair
The British Council has limited the size of a university recruiting mission to Cyprus next month in an attempt to safeguard the reputation of British higher education on the island. A large number of...
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Irish pundits clash over student numbers
The Irish government is facing contradictory predictions over the number of full-time higher education students likely to enrol in the future. Currently the figure stands at about 105,000, but the...
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Masters degree joins business with physics
The University of Southern California plans to introduce a graduate programme that combines business and physics in a quest to produce managers with a high level of scientific knowledge. The two-year...
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Sparks fly over v-cs' pay deals
The salaries of South Africa's 21 university vice-chancellors, made public for the first time this week by the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors' Association, are expected to provoke...
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IMF links African slump to brain drain
Latest evidence from the International Monetary Fund suggests that a brain drain continues to block sustained economic growth in most African countries. IMF researchers found that a sizeable...
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Turkish academics enraged as state dictates language guidelines
Use of the words "Kurd" or "Kurdish" has been banned in Turkish universities under a confidential directive distributed by governors' offices. The directive lists 37 words and phrases that should not...
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Technology holds key to fast and fair admissions
Tony Blair's criticism this week of the public sector's reluctance to face change might have been designed for the university admissions system. Neither students nor universities like it. Students...
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Do not force colleges to abandon the HE ship
Though pleased with much of the white paper on post-16 reforms, Colin Flint fears that the government may seriously undermine the further education sector Further education grew up to fill the...