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Centenary for Beijing
Beijing University is to celebrate its 100th anniversary in grand style in May. University president Chen Jia'er said party and state leaders will join more than 10,000 alumni from home and abroad at...
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A visual revolution gets on the starting grid
From next week's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco. The internet has changed the way we communicate. John Connolly believes the access grid could change the...
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Iconography of ancient dance
Prambanan
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Report uncovers HE bribes system
TBILISI Widespread corruption is one of the biggest obstacles to reform in Georgia, according to a World Bank report on university education in the former Soviet republic. A survey carried out at...
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Super-fast link makes history
A historic high-speed computer link between the Australian National University and institutions in Japan will begin operating later this month. It will be the first time that an Australian academic...
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God still in history's top ten
Social history is more popular than political history, with economic history coming a distant third. Ecclesiastical and religious history are pursued by more historians than gender-based approaches...
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Analysis: Rubber stamp may not spell quality
Lack of a single accreditation system for all degrees offered in the UK casts doubt over the value of some qualifications. Cherry Canovan reports. Now is the time of year when thousands of...
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Afghan intellect blossoms in exile
Despite a Taliban crackdown on secular education, Afghan intellectuals are fighting back, albeit by establishing a university in neighbouring Pakistan. Chris Bunting reports. Mohammad Akbar Kargar's...
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Hair of the cat's no fun
Conflict in Korea - Korea
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Mums who like to wear tartan
The Mummies of ?rümchi
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The THES diary
Old verbs gotta go We seem to be losing something of our sense of obligation, according to research on changes in grammar since 1961. A database being compiled at Lancaster University shows striking...
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Oz gets tough on visa abuse
More than 3,000 foreign students overstayed their visas in Australia last year, raising fears that some students are using their enrolments in education institutions as a means to remain permanently...
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Eye witness
Indonesia's ethnic Chinese community was the target of brutal victimisation after the fall of President Suharto at the hands of last summer's student inspired democracy movement. An estimated 1,000...