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Undergraduates to mark school exams University students will be used to mark GCSE and A-level papers under government plans to tackle a shortage of examiners. Charles Clarke, the education secretary...
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Mandela leaflet is banned
There was a time when student activists worshipped the then imprisoned South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, voting to name their union buildings after him. Now Birmingham University's guild...
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Flamingos show individuality
Researchers have found that flamingos are far more individual than anyone had imagined. The movements and habits of four individuals from the most endangered variety, the "lesser flamingo",...
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Skills network offers students a passport to the world
Institutes of technology in Australia, the US and Canada have established an education network to develop an "international skills passport" that will give students global employment opportunities....
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SA blacks still suffer 'campus racism'
Racism is forcing black academics to leave South Africa's universities, thwarting efforts to make campuses more diverse and representative, a report says. Nearly a decade after the end of apartheid,...
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Vigilante attack claims investigated
The University of Stellenbosch has launched an investigation into claims that black, gay and Jewish students have been attacked in its hostels by rightwing vigilante groups, writes Karen MacGregor. A...
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Poor left out as US increases financial aid to the wealthy
A government report has found that US universities have shifted their financial aid, presumably to attract more students with high entrance exam scores to improve their rankings in league tables....
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Canada told to revamp image
Idyllic images of Canada's snow-capped mountains, golden wheat fields and sparkling lakes are hampering efforts to attract tourists, skilled workers and inward investment, according to a marketing...
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Moscow
Up to 100 of the 500 Russian students in China have ignored education minister Vladimir Filippov's advice to come home to escape the Sars virus.
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Baghdad
Iraq's students have been advised to return to their studies on Saturday, but it is unclear how many of the country's universities will be able to function.
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Rangoon
Burmese academic Salai Tun Than has been released after serving 18 months of a seven-year sentence for staging a one-man demonstration in support of human rights and democracy. He was on hunger...
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Algiers
The Algerian government is attempting to attract back some of the 66,000 academics who left the country between 1994 and 1999.
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Rome
The first woman to head a Vatican academy was nominated last week by Pope John Paul II. Letizia Pani Ermini, professor of archaeology at Rome's La Sapienza University, became president of the...
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Palestine wins £3.9m in aid
The European Commission and the World Bank are to inject emergency funding into Palestine's university system, which has been facing heavy financial pressures during the past three years of conflict...
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French protest over fees hike
France's elite Institute of Political Studies plans to break an educational taboo by increasing fees by up to three times, but with safeguards to protect poor students. Richard Descoings, director of...