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The economic boom that Kuwait has built in the past 30 years on oil has not come without cost to the flora and fauna of the country's small offshore islands in the Gulf. Their fragile ecosystems are...
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Belgrade
Belgrade University students and Serbian police marched together this week to demand that President Milosevic return the "stolen" presidential election to Vojislav Kostunica, who claims 52 per cent...
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Tittle-tattle in Pole position
The hot favourite for Polish president faces a few education problems - not least his own, says George Blazyca On Sunday, Poland will choose its president for the next five years. This time, unlike...
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Colleges open in Chechnya
The Russian education ministry has reopened three universities in the Chechen capital Grozny even though fighting between federal forces and rebels continues. Students were officially welcomed back...
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Islamic students barred in Turkey
Thousands of women wearing Islamic headscarves and men sporting beards were barred from enrolling at Turkish universities for the fourth year running. More than 500 students at Ankara University's...
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Protesters fight plan to levy fees
Austria's controversial right-of-centre government has for the first time since its formation in February met an opponent more formidable than the European Union, its "wise men" and Jacques Chirac...
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Vatican angers Jews
A day of dialogue between Jews and Christians scheduled to take place this month at Rome's Pontifical University has been called off by the Jewish participants. The decision follows the Vatican's...
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Bond enters canon
The English classics curriculum at Delhi University is to be reduced to make room for more contemporary texts, including popular fiction, in a move that has raised eyebrows in conservative academic...
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Lessons from a 7ft penis
Campus groups trying to educate students about sex are taking a lesson from a popular performer, who is dressing up their message in a provocative cabaret. Posters denouncing homophobia are being...
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Staff land Harvard with suit for $120m
The US government is suing Harvard University for $120 million (Pounds 82 million), alleging that two faculty members used a government-backed development programme in Russia for personal gain. The...
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Academic freedom stifled by contracts
Academic freedom is yielding to commercial interests as companies hiring university researchers are drafting contracts that play in their favour, according to a recent analysis of research agreements...
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London trio joins Fathom
London's three museums in South Kensington - the Natural History, the Science and the Victoria and Albert - are to join Fathom, an online provider of lectures, seminars and performances. Fathom was...
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The London School of Economics
* The London School of Economics this week launched its first MBA programme, in collaboration with the New York Stern School of Business and graduate business school HEC Paris. Anthony Giddens,...
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Recreating any port in a storm
The United Kingdom's first full field-of-view ship simulator was unveiled on Wednesday by Liverpool John Moores University. The 360-degree simulator and IT suite is housed in a purpose-built centre...
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Primitive laboratory
Claims that James Neel injected Amazonians with a lethal vaccine highlight a struggle still facing anthropology, argues Tim Ingold The discipline of anthropology is heading for a nasty bout of naming...