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  1. Minister promises grant increase

    Germany is to increase federal grants for students this year, the new federal education and research minister, Christian Democrat Jurgen Ruttgers, confirmed. Presenting his priority areas in Bonn, Mr...

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  2. Student leader murdered

    The leader of one of Algeria's main student unions was murdered in Algiers last week by suspected Islamic fundamentalists. Abdelhafid Said, who was president of the General Union of Students, became...

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  3. Clinton casualty stokes legal row

    Lani Guinier, the law professor who caused a furore in Washington when President Clinton nominated her for the job of assistant attorney general for civil rights, is creating new controversy where...

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  4. Sex-net student is gaoled

    Anyone tempted to pour out their sexual fantasies into the Internet global computer network should beware. They may find themselves investigated, arrested and charged by the FBI. That is what...

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  5. Subjective judgement in the ranks

    Academic league tables in Russia have proved too hot for the state to handle, Nick Holdsworth reports. University league tables in Russia have proven to be as hot a political potato for ministry...

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  6. Academics call for cuts in `quality'

    A deep split has emerged between Australia's vice chancellors and the nation's academics over the future of the federal government's Aus$80 million (Pounds 40 million) quality assurance scheme. The...

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  7. Disoriented

    (Photograph) - Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlanta. Disoriented: the case of `hybrid' orangutans has raised fundamental...

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  9. Final Word...

    This week's Final Word comes from an author whose family originally came from Holland: "How far I am away from the true temper of soul, this letter in its changing, uncertain moods, its scorn and...

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  10. Speaking Volumes: Parliamentary Socialism

    Frank Webster on Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism . Now that there is an almost palpable enthusiasm around in intellectual circles for Tony Blair's new look, even electable, Labour Party, it...

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