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Alliance ready to take on its rival
An international network of universities is preparing a series of special online courses largely geared at the Asian market. A meeting of the ten members of the Global University Alliance in...
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Oz wants bright foreigners to stay
Australia's federal government plans to change immigration rules to make it easier for foreign students to remain after completing their studies as part of an effort to address a growing brain drain...
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OU head leaves for challenge of Unesco's education effort
Open University vice-chancellor Sir John Daniel is to become assistant director general of Unesco, the United Nations' educational and cultural organisation, in Paris. Sir John said he was looking...
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Local option for Middlesex
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Middlesex University, which faces an estimated 40 per cent drop in students from South-east Asia, has set...
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Playing Pooh sticks on a grand scale
Frank Kingdon Ward's Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges
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Historic rewrite required
For Asians who have great respect for the past, it must be surprising to learn that the number of students taking history at schools and universities has been falling for the past three decades. In...
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Research Opportunities - East and South Asian Studies
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs in East and South Asian Studies #221> . Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are...
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Don's Diary: travels with islam
Wednesday Spend half a day in Blackwell's, catching up on the latest books on jihad . I wonder at how terms such as jihad , terror and Islamic fundamentalism have overtaken the serious debate on...
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The players who set the stage for US tragedy
American Tragedy
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It's now or never to bring on Bologna
As the EUA conference gets under way in Bristol, David Jobbins reports on European integration Europe is rarely high on the agenda for British universities but 2003 is the exception. It is the crunch...
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E-outfits go the distance
After faltering in the dotcom downturn, e-learning providers are working hard to recover ground. As Stephen Phillips reports from San Francisco, many institutions are now focusing on professional...
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Pacific heads try for Apec influence
An elite group of Pacific Rim university heads is attempting to increase its influence on the leading agency for open trade and economic cooperation among Asia-Pacific economies. The Association of...
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First pure online MSc for Europe
The University of Liverpool and Dutch education specialists KIT eLearning launched the first pure online European MSc degree course on Tuesday, writes Tim Greenhalgh. John Latham, the university's...
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Strong China good for globe
Harvard professors Erza Vogel and William Kirby used Beijing University's centennial celebrations as a platform to urge far greater expansion of Sino-US contacts in wide-ranging areas to resolve...