Gender gap hits economy
Seoul. SOUTH Korea's female high-school students are being encouraged to compete for more places at top universities. The move follows the passing of a Women's Development Law and the acceptance of a...
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War and pieces
(Photograph) - John Buckley from Wolverhampton University is the new WarGaming world champion after finishing on top at the recent International WarGamers Federation world championship in Derby. The...
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Hi-tech library not so new
Paris. PARIS students were among the first readers to queue for the 1,697 seats in the general public's reading rooms of the national library, which opened last week just two months behind schedule....
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Jews seek return of historic manuscripts
A COLLECTION of more than 100,000 Hebrew and Yiddish publications, some dating back to the 17th century, has become the focus of a dispute between the National Library of Lithuania and Jewish...
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Bilingual degrees on offer
Hamburg. GERMAN universities are to establish bilingual degree courses in a bid to make their higher education system more attractive to foreign students. The education ministry will invest DM30...
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States update pacts on degrees
MORE THAN 50 countries are expected to back a new convention on the recognition of higher education qualifications at a diplomatic conference in Lisbon in April. The Council of Europe and Unesco are...
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Malaysia relaxes rules on university entry
THE RURAL poor in Malaysia are expected to be the main beneficiaries of the relaxation of entry requirements to local universities. About 40 per cent of school leavers could go to university...
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Backlash to race attack
Melbourne. MALAYSIA's warning that it might recall more than 11,000 of its students studying in Australia if their safety was threatened by racist behaviour has sparked alarm among Australia's vice...
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System is broke but not broken
So ends 1996. Four years of hard work yielded a welcome Christmas present for many in terms of improved research assessments. Months of campaigning and lobbying produced a little more cash for...
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Penalised for making it
AFTER the emotional responses to the research assessment exercise results last week, attention shifts to the financial implications. The quality research funding formula is not yet known. It is...
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Before Babylon's end
The Ancient Near East c.3000-330 BC
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Studies in monumental flesh
Lucian Freud
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Whose 'life' is it anyway?
The Dictionary of National Biography 1986-1990 - The Seductions of Biography - History and Biography
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First impressions
The opening lines of this week's book were penned by an author who now permanently resides in Highgate: "In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses - and even great ladies,...