Language barriers in the seminar
Jennie Bristow examines the pros and cons of the influx of overseas students LECTURERS are preparing themselves for a new set of faces in universities at the start of the United Kingdom's academic...
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The rocky road to Akmola
It seems like an odd place to put a capital. The city of Almaty is practically in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan with most of Kazakstan's 2.7 million square miles lying to the north. Only the Alatau...
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Paradise invented and lost
The Problem of Nature
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Teesside VR centre forges business links
A Pounds 2.3 million virtual reality centre serving students and local industries will be housed in the latest showpiece building to rise on the formerly down-at-heel campus of the University of...
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Drabble routed by Americans
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
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Cambridge don rattles deans
CONTROVERSY continues to dog the Australian government's appointment of a committee to advise on the future of higher education for the next 20 years. Deans of education have called for the sacking...
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All ears to the ground
Empire and Information
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How two vice chancellors see it
John Hay, vice chancellor of the University of Queensland: "HECS is a reasonable scheme. On the whole, it addresses the needs of first-degree students. The biggest problem is that all students pay...
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Significance from the margins
The Conditions of Listening
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A president who merits his moniker
Nixon's Economy - A Tangled Web
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Hungry for greed to end
Markets and Food Riots:
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Asians take pride in a place
Students who were born in Asia are winning places in New South Wales universities at up to three times the rate of their Australian or European-born counterparts, possibly because their parents place...
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Plunder and fighting folk
Celt and Greek
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Oxford may lose its Liberty
The future of Oxford University's business venture with Liberty was in the balance this week following the upmarket retailers' announcement that all its branches outside London are to close to stem...
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Promotions
ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Readerships: Chris Durston, principal lecturer, reader in history; David Worral, senior lecturer, reader in English literature. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Readerships: The...