Fine words, now let's act
Unesco's Paris declaration asserted basic rights for students that must be acted on, argues Kathrine Vangen Towards the end of last year, the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the...
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V-cs flinch at funding policy pinch
Federal funding of ߣߣÊÓƵn universities in two years will be at its lowest for a decade, forcing institutions to look for private sources of income. A report on higher education spending for 1999...
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Paintball party has staying power
There are only about 1,500 students on the idyllic hilltop campus of Western Maryland University, and the atmosphere is so laid-back that a cat named Siouxsie has free reign of the leafy quadrangle...
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Blair offers aid for HIV inquiry
South African students and researchers, especially those working in Aids related fields, will benefit from greater aid and the partnership for development co-operation announced by British prime...
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How to
WHAT Sally Brown suggests some ways to make lectures more interesting so that students learn during them and not afterwards WHY Lectures are still the main way to deliver the curriculum. They can be...
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Clean sweep
(Photograph) - Clean sweep: Rose Bell, left, and Dawn Bentley dust down at the University of Sheffield, where all cleaning staff take a national vocational qualification Level 1 in housekeeping in...
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Italian university reform 'too slow'
Luciano Modica, president of the Italian Rectors Conference, believes the reform of Italy's university system is too slow. Professor Modica, rector of Pisa University, approves of the reforms...
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Football star turns academic
Professional footballers tend to open a restaurant when their playing career comes to an end, or simply drift into unproductive obscurity. But the former Dutch star Johan Cruyff is taking a different...
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Anglo-German link-up in Ukraine
The British Council and Germany's Goethe Institut are to open a joint cultural, educational and training centre based at the Mohyla Academy in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The centre, scheduled to...
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Kyrgyz professor battles for democracy
Topchubek Turganaliyev, former rector of the University of the Humanities in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, and former chairman of the pro-democracy Erkin Kyrgyzstan Party, has issued an appeal to...
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Cash for much less flash
For students with photosensitive epilepsy, flickering screens are a serious hazard. Jenny Gristock suggests countermeasures and ways to finance them
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Suite deal
IBM has challenged Microsoft's desktop dominance with a low-cost education deal on its Lotus Smartsuite and eSuite software. Negotiated by the Combined Higher Education Software Team, the National...
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Super star
Manchester now boasts the world's most powerful supercomputer devoted to open academic research. The Silicon Graphics T3E-1200E is in a Pounds 26 million research facility funded by the Engineering...
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Skills campaign
Alan Stevens, UK chief executive of the IT services company EDS, will head an industry-led group set up to tackle skills shortages in information and communication technology and electronics. The...
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Village video
High Peak College students are logging in from the hills for personal tutoring, using BT videoconferencing. The equipment has been available to students in rural towns for 18 months. Now it is...