Welsh watch eastern flock
A Welsh University is helping improve the quality of sheep flocks in Estonia and Hungary in preparation for the European market. Agriculture in parts of the former communist world is changing...
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Vintage year for creme
The creme de la creme of France's grandes ecoles appears to be of an even higher standard today than in the 1950s, which was a vintage decade for the production of the nation's elite. This is the...
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Data bank bid to stop PhD fraud
A German academic is campaigning for a central register for PhD titles following revelations that professionals are buying fraudulent degrees for up to Pounds 44,000 each. Manuel Theisen, a business...
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Students make desert tracks
A train service is crossing the Negev desert for the first time in 13 years thanks to students at Ben Gurion University. The service, from Beersheba to Tel Aviv, was abandoned by Israeli Railways in...
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Fear of Russia violence
Russia is on the brink of catastrophe and could slip into civil war unless President Yeltsin and his communist opponent Gennady Zyuganov, agree a level of political consensus before the June...
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Exams before militancy
Hong Kong's destiny may be setting in cement but most university students in the territory are less inclined than ever to leave their footprints on the path of Hong Kong's history. While China was...
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Jobs in Japan go into deep freeze
In the boom years of the early 1990s demand for employees in Japan meant that senior students at universities were frequently offered a choice of jobs 12 months or more before they graduated. Now, in...
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Beijing banks on hi-tech hopes
Beijing is to harness the latest scientific and technological advances in its universities and research institutes to serve economic growth. The Chinese capital plans to switch from a labour-...
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Engineers in clear
Three engineering professors are getting back over Can$300,000 (Pounds 150,000) after being cleared of any misuse of their research funds in an investigation conducted by the Natural Sciences and...
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Wooden bridge of peace across troubled waters
Five centuries ago, legend has it, a mystic stood on a sacred mountain in Central America and predicted an academic centre for peace would be built there one day. In December 1980, this dream was...
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Fertility clinic in eggs scandal
The first criminal charges have been brought in a fertility clinic scandal that rocked the University of California's Irvine campus and now threatens the university with a string of costly lawsuits....
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Student victory in debt crisis
Mexican students overseas have won a battle with their government to safeguard their grants from cuts in public spending programmes. When the Mexican exchange rate and foreign debt crisis broke in...
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League of their own
University league tables published in The THES this week are a by-and-large way of telling the public which institutions are "best" for what. They are a response to the demand for accountability, the...
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Un-Asian values
Indians make an enormous contribution to intellectual life today, particularly in economics and in the sciences. It is to be hoped that the recent election will not affect this adversely. On a recent...
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A profit scheme without honour
The concept of "profit" in relation to universities and colleges of higher education was until recently as alien to their staff as it was to officials at the Inland Revenue. However, the...