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From the forests of Brazil to the suburbs of Paris, slavery is big business - million people big. Kevin Bales reports Recently I interviewed a young woman I'll call Seba. This animated 22-year-old...
From the forests of Brazil to the suburbs of Paris, slavery is big business - million people big. Kevin Bales reports Recently I interviewed a young woman I'll call Seba. This animated 22-year-old...
We live in an age of pictures rather than words. The result? Assertive women and a return to Goddess worship. Leonard Shlain reports On a tour of Mediterranean archaeological sites a few years ago, I...
Howard Newby, chairman elect of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, will take over the job in interesting times. The Bett committee will just have delivered expensive recommendations...
VIENNA Bulgarians now constitute the largest number of foreign students at one of Austria's largest universities. Out of a total student population of 22,000 at the University of Economics in Vienna...
PARIS French students are discovering that the best way to improve their exam grades is to shut themselves away with monks. As the distractions of everyday life become harder to resist, a stay in an...
DUBLIN The Irish government has announced an initiative aimed at heading off potential skill shortages in the information technology sector. An additional 5,400 higher education places will be...
Q. My department is using more and more computer-aided learning and I detect that some of my students are becoming bored with pointing and clicking. How can this be avoided? A. Peter Murray-Rust,...
BOSTON Radcliffe College, the 120-year-old sister school of Harvard University, will cease to exist as an independent institution under a long-anticipated merger plan revealed last week. The...
Students at Glasgow University put a German intellectual slant on their sketches of disaster movies and Blind Date. Olga Wojtas sits in the audience at the end-of-term session Alison Phipps's German...
When in doubt, throw it out. Phil Race gives some tips on how lecturers can cut their workload and the stress that plays havoc with their health "I'm already working a 70-hour week." "With these...
WELLINGTON The powers of Waikato University vice-chancellor Bryan Gould have been curbed in a high court ruling that has been hailed as a landmark by New Zealand's Association of University Staff....
WHAT. Henry Ellington presents his seven golden rules for becoming an excellent teacher when working at tertiary level. WHY. Tertiary-level teachers are having to change their way of work to provide...
LIBREVILLE Students at Libreville's Universite Omar Bongo in Gabon have suspended a three-month boycott of classes and street demonstrations in protest at the absence of computers and internet...
MELBOURNE Melbourne's Curzon Hotel lost its liquor licence in 1907 because of "unruly behaviour on the premises". While unruly behaviour can never be ruled out when ideas clash, it is unlikely ever...
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