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Foreign intake fires NZ growth
New Zealand universities are predicting growth of more than 20 per cent in international student numbers this year, due to a low exchange rate, agreements with Chinese universities and a flood of...
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Don's Diary
Weekend Combination of catching up on piles of reading marked "not urgent", domestic matters put off for weeks; and preparation for a visit to Kyrgyzstan. It is here, in Central Asia (formerly part...
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Dating game is nice earner
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. Nigeria's 500,000 students are struggling...
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Don's diary: A global nomad
Tuesday Setting off for an expert meeting on backpacking, I find, despite my supposed expertise in the subject, that I am overloaded. Every time I travel, I swear I will travel lighter next time. The...
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Minister denies fee-payers get special treatment
Australia's vice-chancellors and education minister have issued a joint statement across Southeast Asia refuting claims that Australian universities are manipulating examination results in favour of...
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Bengal, Burke and Bertie Wooster
Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World
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Aceh rector shot dead as guerrilla tension flares
Compared with the carnage in New York, it was a small act of terrorism. Dayan Dawood, rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, was heading back from the campus through the centre of town in...
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Snatched in Sudan, captive in Khartoum
Trafficking of humans is a global crisis, writes Harold Hongju Koh, but there are ways in which we can stem the flow. The US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices identify at...
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Snatched in Sudan, captive in Khartoum
Trafficking of humans is a global crisis, writes Harold Hongju Koh, but there are ways in which we can stem the flow. The US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices identify at...
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Dragon finds use for Cobra
China is courting India, seeing it as the key to high-tech English-speaking western markets, writes Wang Gungwu Improved diplomatic relations between India and China will not have dramatic effects on...
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Wild vistas that come in bulk
Wilderness
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Ways of seeing obscure view of heritage
Journal of Classical Sociology
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Australia sees tech future with India
A new report has urged the Australian government to work more closely with India in the development of information technology products. The report by Australia's overseas export organisation Austrade...
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A serial killer still lurking in shadows
Luckily, last year's Sars epidemic was brought under control quickly and efficiently. But, warns Roy Anderson, we may not be so fortunate next time round. On December 26 the Chinese ministry of...