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Four dissident academics jailed for offences against the state (see left) have appealed against their sentences, which range from three to five years. They were arrested after publicly urging...
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President Mouhamed Bouteflika has promised better funding for students, teaching and research. His address to the 20,000 students at the Universite Nationale Algerienne was the first time an Algerian...
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Rebel thinkers in Havana
Tony Kapcia looks at the Cuban's thirst for answers to problems outside the rhetoric of orthodox communism At first sight, given the spring trial of four former academics as dissidents, the question...
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Anniversary flagged
(Photograph) - Indonesian students rally in front of parliament to celebrate the first anniversary of former president Suharto's resignation. The students demanded Mr Suharto to be tried for...
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Health minister Bernard Kouchner is to overhaul medical studies to end private cramming to pass an exam that leads to highly sought specialisations. Students feel pressured to take the exam rather...
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Dockland dawn full of promise
The University of East London is set to open Britain's newest university campus on a patch of for- merly derelict land. The Pounds 40 million Docklands Campus, the first to be built in the capital...
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Museums suffer from neglect
An official survey of 38 university museum collections in the South- east region has expressed deep concern over standards of care. The revolution in standards of care that has dominated the...
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An eco battle against the clock
Now in the third year of an ecology PhD at London's Imperial College, Stuart Otway thinks that a fourth year is inevitable. "There is no chance that I am going to finish before my funding runs out,"...
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Fresh ideas
(Photograph) - Fresh ideas: Sarah Hocombe, a fresco painter, has won a Pounds 5,200 Queen Elizabeth scholarship to study contemporary fresco practice in Italy.
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Cricklade whistleblower sacked
Whistleblower Andrew Murray has been sacked by Cricklade College, Andover. Mr Murray, a senior Natfhe negotiator, helped disclose alleged financial irregularities at the college, which led to the...
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Staff pilloried by head
Lecturers' leaders have lambasted the principal of Manchester College of Art and Technology, Peter Tavernor, for a public attack on his own staff, some of whom he has described as "dishonest and...
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A feminist scholar who refused to admit men into her classes because they "have nothing to offer" has lost her legal battle. A court said that Boston College was right to order Mary Daly, 70, to...
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Workhorses of the system
Postgraduates are overworked and underpaid. Few finish their PhD in the three years allotted. Alison Goddard asks why There is no doubt that the workload of PhD students has increased considerably in...
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Chemist with a interest in pests
Jenny Kingston is a final-year PhD student at Portsmouth University. Specialising in environmental analytical chemistry, she is working on a European Union funded study into sampling pesticides. "I...
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Black South African's optimistic for post-election future
Nelson Mandela. Regarded education as a key element in South Africa's transition from the social divisions and racial resentment of apartheid to black majority rule. Later he was criticised in some...