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Chris Gamble, first woman director of Chatham House, says the institute will be stronger in the 21st century Foreign secretary Robin Cook has witheringly described Chatham House as "a social forum...
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Universities pull out of national pay board
Industrial relations are in the balance following the withdrawal of five of Australia's biggest universities from their national negotiating arm and the resignation of its chief executive, Russell...
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Nigerian v-cs face end-of-term test
Many Nigerian universities about to appoint vice-chancellors are faced with interpreting a military decree of the late General Abacha, who responded to campus protests against violation of human...
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Immigrant professor in job fight
An attempt by a Canadian university to recruit a French-born philosophy professor with an international track record has been thwarted by immigration rules. Jean-Christophe Merle was selected for a...
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Spanish overtakes rival tongues
Immigration, international economic trends, the end of the cold war and the advent of the internet are causing university and college students in the United States to move away from most European...
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Wordy dissertation to win ancient book
A German antiquarian bookshop is hunting for the longest dissertation submitted to a German university in 1998. The author of the record-breaking work will be rewarded with a 300-year-old...
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Headdress becomes a Turkish election issue
The religious headscarves controversy that has dominated Turkish universities for months has spread to the formation of the new government. Former prime minister and centre-right leader Tansu Ciller...
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French face EU court ruling
The French government could be taken to the European Court of Justice for failing to recognise private health insurance policies taken out in other European Union member states by students who are...
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Law students practise in Ukraine free advice clinic
Law students in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk are gaining practical experience and helping the poor in the country's first free legal aid scheme. Members of the Youth Centre for Legal Studies, an...
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Walking the dog
(Photograph) - Walking the dog: students from a Student Community Action Project at the University of Plymouth walk dogs for elderly people, those who are housebound and people who go to work. The...
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Guru puts on the style for restless designers...but it's not all smiles at W3C
Tim Greenhalgh meets the Norwegian who redefined style on the world wide web, and Tony Durham sums up a year of successes and setbacks for the web's energetic standard setters Show two people a web...
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Info cliches suit the Euro funders
Users of new technologies, rather than visionary glibness, will define the cultural results of information technology, Jon Agar argues Flagship technologies always repay close reading: they tell us...
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BBC and S4C join to bring UFI to Wales
The University for Industry will be delivered in Wales by a bilingual distance learning network specifically tailored to Welsh needs, according to Eurfron Gwynne Jones, chair of Digital College Wales...
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Guru puts on the style for restless designers...but it's not all smiles at W3C
Tim Greenhalgh meets the Norwegian who redefined style on the world wide web, and Tony Durham sums up a year of successes and setbacks for the web's energetic standard setters The web is a global...
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Better to rethink than to raid research
It is unfortunate that the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service's processing of student applications for 1999 has been delayed by a move to larger premises. This is the first year in which no...