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This Sunday's elections in the Basque country are a key step in the peace process that began with the separatist movement ETA's ceasefire on September 16. Politicians are hoping for a high turnout...
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Birth rate fall slims student body
As school pupils took to the streets in France demanding more teachers and better conditions, the university year was getting under way more peacefully. For education minister Claude All gre,...
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US college life stars in next TV soap hit
It is that time of year in Hollywood when the television networks try out their new series on the discerning viewer. Many of these ill-conceived ventures rapidly crash and burn as audiences turn...
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Volga river city weathers slide of the rouble
There is an independent air about Saratov, capital of one of Russia's leading reformist regions. The Volga river city, 500 miles south-east of Moscow, is proud of its 400-year history as a trading...
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Academics accused of sex with detained Malay leader
Two university lecturers have been accused of engaging in homosexual acts with Malaysia's now imprisoned former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim. They are Hairany Modh Naffis, a political science...
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Protesters dig feet in over privatisation
French archaeologists called off a ten-day strike last week after the culture minister froze proposals to "privatise" compulsory excavations of particular sites before construction starts, writes...
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Dearing calls for world partners
THE question of how lifelong learning can be financed without increased government spending was raised by Lord Dearing in Melbourne last week. Speaking at the University of Melbourne, Lord Dearing...
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Romania woos minority with university
Romania is investigating establishing a multilingual university in an effort to ward off a threat by the Hungarian minority party to withdraw from the ruling coalition. A Hungarian university has...
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Campaign to scrap race policy heats up
The cultural centre at the University of Washington is a legacy of the heady days of the civil rights era, when student protesters occupied the president's offices and demanded the campus open its...
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Heads resist CTI
A review group analysing the Computers in Teaching Initiative has reported a mixed message. While the initiative is seen to be growing in importance as institutions develop more formal learning and...
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Valley chips away at cash
They use them in Russian oilfields. They use them on a United States Navy cruiser. Now 28,000 staff and students are using them at Thames Valley University. If Slough and Ealing were surrounded by...
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University of Edinburgh to issue smartcards
The University of Edinburgh has teamed up with the Bank of Scotland to issue all 22,000 students with smartcards. Students can transfer up to Pounds 100 to the card from their bank accounts. The...
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Data law is late
Researchers need to find out now whether they will breach data privacy laws says Andrew Charlesworth By tomorrow European Union member states should have implemented the 1995 EU Data Protection...
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Money must be chased but with new guidelines
For centuries universities have provided a socially useful means of laundering grubby money. Suppression of the monasteries, piracy, slavery, American robber barons' ruthless exploitation: all...
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How to kick back when you're left on the shelf
More academics should test whether New Labour can countenance argued opposition, says Angela McRobbie This week saw two seemingly conflicting events. First, the government permitted the arrest of...