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Henri Konan Bedie, president of Cote d'Ivoire accused opposition parties of being behind two weeks of intermittent clashes between police and university students to discredit his government in the...
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Sacked prime minister Yevgeni Primakov is likely to return to his old post at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Mr Primakov, a 69-year-old Middle East expert and former Soviet-era KGB chief, planned...
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A Scots Labour and an English Conservative MEP have each written to Romano Prodi, president-designate of the European commission, urging him to intervene in Italy's long-running dispute over foreign-...
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World watch
The Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan named a former computer engineering student as author of the Chernobyl (CIH) virus which caused many computers around the world to fail last month. The...
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Eye witness
For centuries the Danube has been a vital international trade artery through Central and Eastern Europe, interrupted only by the second world war. But its bridges have been a consistent target of...
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Call to ration doctors
Italian doctors have to wait an average of ten years before they find stable employment in the public or private health services because there is a massive surplus of medical school graduates,...
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Indians buy bonds for study overseas
The clamour for a foreign university degree has triggered a boom in education bonds to enable Indian parents to send their children overseas. After a "lock-in period" of 15 to 20 years, the bonds...
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Naked wrestlers defend modesty
Photographs of clothed female university cheerleaders and naked male wrestlers taken without their consent for sale as pornography have several major American universities looking for someone to sue...
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Frontline lessons in human rights
Rachel Wheeler's PhD is on hold for a few weeks. In a Kosovar Albanian refugee camp near Tirana she adds two arrivals to her computer database. She is working for the Christian aid agency MedAir as a...
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Reunified students divided
Nearly a decade after German reunification, students from the east and west are still divided, according to a large-scale academic survey funded by the German government. Only 10 per cent of students...
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Male culture holds back women
Finland may have more women professors than any other country in the European Union but, at 18.4 per cent of the total, they still face gender inequality in their careers. This is the conclusion of...
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French studies get full funding
British undergraduates following the University of London French studies degree course at the British Institute in Paris will no longer face the burden of having to pay their full study costs but...
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Maoris win case on college funding
The New Zealand government could face a bill of more than NZ$60 million (Pounds 20 million) following a tribunal ruling that the Crown breached New Zealand's founding treaty by underfunding three...
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Net porn censorship plans worry academics
A decision by the Australian government to introduce censorship laws covering the internet has alarmed the nation's universities and internet service providers which fear the consequences of attempts...
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Funders map out national deal on OS data
The funding councils and Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency, have struck a deal that will make digital map data available in higher education institutions. The council's Joint...