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Wellington New Zealand's eight universities have frozen student fees for the second year running after the government stepped in with a one-off cash sweetener. Vice-chancellors had opposed a...
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End of line for the satellite campus
Nigeria has closed all university satellite campuses amid fears of falling standards and the over-commercialisation of tertiary education. Peter Okebukola, executive secretary of the National...
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Ethical student alliance takes on multinational
A coalition of US and Canadian students is accusing a corporation that runs most of the continent's college cafeterias of having too much involvement in the private prison industry. For the past 18...
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Students rally to root out race hate
When the new semester began at Pennsylvania State University last month, just 4 per cent of its students were African-Americans. For some, even that is too many. The past academic year has been...
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Popular Oz faces growing visa fraud
An increase in visa fraud has accompanied the rise in demand from foreign students to enrol in Australian education. Figures released by the federal government last week revealed that Australian...
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Stem-cell debate ruffles wary Germany
A debate over embryonic stem-cell research in the shadow of a Nazi past has left German scientists afraid that they will be left behind in the race to develop therapies. Otmar Wiestler and Oliver...
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France lays out welcome mat
Foreigners who want to study in France should soon find it easier to take up residence and support themselves there. Education minister Jack Lang and minister of foreign affairs Hubert Vedrine have...
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Finland loses its vocation
More than 70 per cent of Finnish school-leavers are choosing to continue their study by enrolling in higher education rather than on vocational courses. According to the ministry of education, the...
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Minister bites back at angry students
Austria's education minister has hit back at students who have complained about the introduction of fees. Elisabeth Gehrer said that 40 per cent of them did not even bother to take exams while...
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Monash finds Italian home for academy
An 18th-century palazzo in Prato, near Florence, once a private gaming club for the gentlemen of the city's textile oligarchy, will house a new centre established by Australia's Monash University....
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U21 goes online just as market tumbles
An online university was created last week by Universitas 21, the global consortium of 18 research-intensive universities, and Thomson Learning. The launch comes in the midst of a downturn in world...
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Family firms trail on training
Northern Ireland's small businesses, which make up about 95 per cent of industry in the province, are falling behind other European countries and even Turkey and North Africa in staff training and...
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Turn of the screw
Kennet and Avon Canal builders use an Archimedean screw at Hungerford to help repair a wooden culvert. This picture is one of hundreds to be archived online by the Waters Trust at a cost of £650,000...
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Enhanced fund pushes at film frontiers
The Scottish Executive last week added £1 million more to a fund for researchers in the early stages of developing work with commercial potential. The two-year-old "proof of concept" fund, managed by...
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Italians turn psychology's attention to web designs
Trento University in northern Italy is offering a degree course in psychology to train people to work on the design and management of websites. The course - science and techniques of applied...