Vietnam to get first foreign university
Work is about to start on Vietnam's first foreign-owned university after the Asia Development Bank agreed to pay $7.5 million (£5.3 million) towards the project. The university is being established...
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Cost of university fees is 'two pints of beer a week' Graduates starting off on a salary of £18,000 a year in London would only have to give up two pints of beer a week to repay their top-up fees,...
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Marriage of awe and order
Enlightening the British - Enlightenment
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Marriage of awe and order
Enlightening the British - Enlightenment
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Malaysian OU opts for Heriot-Watt expertise
Tan Sri Abdullah Sanusi, president of the fledgling Malaysian Open University, has finalised an e-learning deal with Heriot-Watt University to give new Malaysian students access to Heriot-Watt's...
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Beautiful sounds from foul singers
Bats may be ugly and smelly but, Daniel Bennett says, they sound wonderful. Just after dusk we were on a canoe in the Mozambique Bay. Hundreds of bats were flying over the sea and the sound was...
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With the best will in the world
One World
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Putting Canada in the frame
Brussels, 30 Sep 2002 Dr Christophe Sensen of the University of Calgary, Canada, is well placed to discuss Canadian collaboration with the EU. A German who went across to Canada over a decade ago, he...
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International organisation to help developing country researchers with intellectual property issues
Brussels, 11 February 2002 An international organisation is to be set up later this year to assist governments and health researchers in the developing world to negotiate better deals for drug access...
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Envisat focuses on carbon-rich peat swamp forest fires
Paris, 06 Aug 2003 Multiple sensors on ESA's Envisat environmental satellite have been used to peer beneath a vast pall of smoke above tropical Borneo and detect fire hotspots – known to add millions...
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A search for unity in a broad church
Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century - Seeking Bauls of Bengal - The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism - Indian Religions
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Crusader tries to awaken Japan
Japan's Past, Japan's Future
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Inquiry criticises police action at student protest
An inquiry has criticised the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for "inappropriate conduct" while trying to quell student protests during an international summit on global trade at the University of...
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Who should Tony be cosying up to?
Before and After - Between Europe and America - The New Imperialism
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Who should Tony be cosying up to?
Before and After - Between Europe and America - The New Imperialism