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The crisis in Zimbabwe is being played out around issues of land and race. Some 1,000 "white" farms have been invaded by groups led by independence war veterans demanding that farms be handed to...
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World view
International authors visited a festival in Natal to share their stories and to try to make a difference in the area. Brenda Gourley was won over. We can all go down on our bended knees and thank the...
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Cape Town
Writer Njabulo Ndebele has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town. Formerly vice-chancellor of the University of the North, Professor Ndebele has just completed a year as...
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Launch of huge archive on the web
A website offering access to descriptions of 19 million archive items and manuscripts belonging to academic institutions in the London area was launched this week by King's College London. www.aim25....
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Where to put all the rubbish
Jane Marshall concludes our focus on France with reports on energy management. The energy commission's search for a clean nuclear reactor is like hunting for holy grail Clean" and "non-polluting" are...
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Ouagadougou
Blaise Compaore, president of Burkino Faso, has ordered the closure of university campuses in Ouagadougou and Bobodiolasso after students supported a three-day stoppage by civil servants over the...
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Lima
Up to 850,000 dairy farmers are to benefit from a deal between Peru's Cayetano Heredia University and three major national agricultural associations to provide students at the faculty of veterinary...
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Failure to join top tier spurs Oz audits
Australian universities will be subject to regular independent audits of their teaching, learning, research and management under a plan agreed at an historic meeting of all state, territory and...
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Protest reprieve for regime
A 100-day suspension of demonstrations by students at Senegal's Cheik Anta Diop University has removed the risk of embarrassing the new regime of president Abdoulaye Wade as delegates converge on...
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Crisis looms as young blood fails to fill high posts
A lack of clear plans to replace East Africa's ageing professors, most of whom are due to retire within ten years, is becoming a major barrier to quality education. It is estimated that 60 per cent...
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Pay gap widens for US faculty
American university faculty enjoyed salary raises above inflation this year for the sixth time in the past seven years, but their pay continues to fall behind that of other highly educated...
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Fees leave Scandanavians cold
Senior civil servants from all of Scandinavia's ministries of higher education are agreed that the time is not ripe for the introduction of university tuition fees in the region. Gathered in Iceland...
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Students target private tuition
Italy's main student union has launched a national campaign against advertising by Italy's largest private tuition firm, which uses Alex Del Piero, star player of Juventus football club, and...
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Here's looking at you, squid
(Photograph) - Research students and scientists were on hand to explain the mysteries of the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it at an exhibition at Southampton University's Oceanography Centre....
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Five projects share Pounds 462,000
Tim Greenhalgh on the BT Higher Education Awards, co-sponsored by THES. Two events on the same day last week at British Telecom's London headquarters underlined the breathless pace of cultural change...