No problem over property at the centre of vision
As the UK's media providers prepare to go digital, Peter Gibbins introduces a unique research company in more ways than one - the virtual centre of excellence in multimedia and digital broadcasting...
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Cutting edge of the city
Newcastle, once the setting for postwar urban mismanagement on a grand scale, is nurturing a technology-led revolution in the study of cities and responsive ways to manage their regeneration. Simon...
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Junior training sessions for life's race
Media and cultural studies: party political PR, film, video and the net in an age of media domination As the government prepares to introduce tougher penalties for race-related attacks, researchers...
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Spinning out of control
Media and cultural studies: party political PR, film, video and the net in an age of media domination THE slick packaging of Tony Blair and New Labour may have been scrutinised to death, but less...
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Fees rise too fast for family pockets
The cost of attending college in the United States rose by 5 per cent this autumn, above the rate of inflation and family income for the 12th year running. The latest figures in the annual survey by...
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Lecturers cold-shoulder media
Academics have organised a media boycott after the University of Melbourne declined to support an academic facing a defamation action. About 80 academics voted to seek a promise from the university...
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Doctors debate landmines
A Canadian professor of medicine is trying to establish an international conference for doctors and organisations dealing with the victims of land mines. Riding the wave of recent worldwide attention...
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Entry test charged with bias
Standard admission tests for United States universities are being jettisoned in response to complaints that they are racially and culturally biased and exclude students with talents that maths and...
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The lost tribe of East African dons
PAY rises for academics at universities in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya are the only way to stop the brain drain to industry and to richer neighbouring countries, say educationists. Officials from the...
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Ghana fears student fees fight
GHANA is preparing for a wave of student militancy against tuition and accommodation fee rises introduced because of financial constraints. University authorities are working with the security forces...
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Arson attack at Fort Hare
PROTESTS, fire and theft are plaguing South Africa's most famous black university, the University of Fort Hare. The university is meeting strong resistance to a retrenchment exercise which could cost...
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India's view of struggle
INDIA's ten best-known historians have embarked on a government-funded project to rebut the view that independence from Britain came through a smooth and voluntary transfer of power. The historians,...
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Macao plans for takeover
CHINA's resumption of sovereignty over Macao in December 1999 is fuelling enthusiasm for China's mainland universities among Macao's young people, who see the takeover as offering more exciting and...
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Allegre forces French doors open
FRANCE's grandes ecoles are as "closed as clams" and will be "forced" to open up to more foreign students, education minister Claude All gre said as he unveiled the first major plans for higher...
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Albanians fight for campus
EJUP Stantovci, rector of the "alternative" Albanophone University of Pristina, and more than 100 students were arrested last week when ethnic Albanian students staged a massive protest against the...