Being as good as the best
The Open University is 30, flourishing and serving as a role model to universities around the world, as Alison Goddard discovers "Blithering nonsense!" That's how heavyweight Tory politician Sir Iain...
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City sights in traditional Islamic garb
Islamic Urban Studies, Historical Review and Perspectives - Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
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Student intake up in Siberia
Something is stirring in one remote region of Russia. Nick Holdsworth investigates the post-perestroika search for skills. Studying is back in style in Siberia where applications to universities are...
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Latino lingo is the ploy to win Spanish ayes
Bush and Gore spoke Spanish to woo the US's largest immigrant community. Clare Mar-Molinero explains why. Something is happening to Spanish. The number of people speaking it is growing and, more...
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Prophets of doom rise for an encore
Late Antiquity
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Clean air, hazy vision
Smog Alert
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Robust Nile fish to aid sick salmon
The observation by fish farmers that some fish families are more resistant to disease than others is to be exploited by researchers at Stirling University. Randolph Richards, John Sargent and Brendan...
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Invisible borders around the elite
Tony Durham reports from Singapore on the global scramble to develop and control forms of distance learning. No knowledge, no future: from shanty town to corporate headquarters this is understood....
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White man who speaks in many dark tongues
Nottingham-born Bob Dixon speaks five Aboriginal languages - just 245 to go. Julia Hinde reports There were probably 250 separate languages - each as different as French and German," explains Bob...
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From bush lush to OAP from hell
The Most Offending Soul Alive
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Looking east
Sheffield University is opening an East Asia research centre to help strengthen its links with the region. The centre will provide fellowships and graduate bursaries for research in areas such as...
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The hard way: two young students who did not follow the
'Some of the other students looked down on me for having a BTEC rather than A A levels' Calling up the admissions tutor and demanding a place on his course might seem an unusual way of getting into...
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Why opossums should rule and other fantasies
Archaeology and Language
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Surviving the free market
Vietnam's universities are seizing the opportunities autonomy is giving them. Do Thui Thinh and John Morgan report on a recent workshop Higher education reform is crucial to the economic and social...
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Look who's over here
Over a fifth of postgraduates are overseas students. Mark Nye looks at the attractions of studying in the United Kingdom THE SCRAMBLE for a university place for Michaelmas entry is in full swing but...