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Italy's highest court has awarded a student at Bologna University e415 (Pounds 250) in damages for "anxiety" caused by the inefficiency and rudeness of university administrators. The verdict...
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A date with integration
The University of Pristina is ready to greet the rest of Europe as an equal, as Michael Daxner reports At the start of a new millennium, the University of Pristina has a chance to become a fully...
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Aids risk high in Pacific
University students from Pacific islands are a high-risk category for Aids, according to a report by the United Nations agency UNAids. The report says the better educated, better skilled, healthier...
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Tribal tensions close campus
The Obafemi Awolowo University of Ile-Ife has closed until further notice in the face of continued communal clashes between the inhabitants of two communities over the relocation of a municipal...
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Black cloud hangs over the US
American college presidents continue to be submerged in a wave of scandals. The president of Century College, Minnesota, Charles Hays, has been forced to resign after an investigation found he had...
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Nike pulls out of colleges
Nike has withdrawn millions of dollars of financial support, free athletic equipment, advertising and other benefits from any US university demanding higher pay and living standards for overseas...
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Student told: 'No sex on course'
A student at the Utrecht School of Journalism has been reprimanded for writing a monthly column for Playboy magazine as part of her coursework. Marije Sietsma has been told that her monthly columns...
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Ashes of donors to be housed in Basque university memorial
A Spanish anatomy professor has won a ten-year campaign for a memorial to the people who donated their bodies for the teaching of medicine in the Basque country. The University of the Basque country...
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Axe over Berlin's historic institutes
Berlin's eight universities and Fachhochschulen should undergo sweeping reforms and some academic institutes should be closed, according to a damning report from the Science Council, Germany's...
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Up to 10,000 academics to descend on Rome
The Vatican is offering the world's television networks an advertisement depicting a white dove taking off from a university lecture hall and winging its way to St Peter's basilica. The video...
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Net: domain of privileged
Government policies aimed at widening access to education through technology are failing -and universities are also missing the mark, because of poorly designed websites - according to research...
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I don't believe it
(Photograph) - Audrey White (right) won an award this week from the City Lit, where she has qualified as a professional aromatherapist after starting by selling aromatherapy oils from a market stall...
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USP defies distance with link-up
The University of the South Pacific has launched a multimillion-dollar communications project linking students in its 12 member states. USPNet2000 is probably unique because of the area it covers and...
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Teesside Waps ahead
The University of Teesside is harnessing wireless application protocol technology to widen access to information about its services. The university, one of a handful to gain an "excellent" teaching...
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Jobs fillip for Aberdeen
Aberdeen University is hoping to create between 50 and 60 jobs with Pounds 5 million in research funding from the European Union. The university has boosted its cache of EU grants by 50 per cent for...