Universities
Harvard tops Chinese university rankings for eighth year

Harvard tops Chinese university rankings for eighth year - 2010-08-13

SHANGHAI, D'Arcy Doran- Harvard topped a Chinese ranking of world universities published Friday for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US institutions and sharply criticised in Europe....

Botswana opens path for Bushmen to study at university - 2010-07-23

GABORONE, Refentse Tessa - Growing up in a dusty hunter-gatherer village in Botswana's Kalahari game reserve, Bihela Sekere never even knew what a university was, much less thought of becoming a...
Egypt's veil wearers see it as barrier to harassment

Egypt's veil wearers see it as barrier to harassment - 2010-01-31

CAIRO, Mona Salem - Female students at Cairo University are defying religious and state efforts to ban the controversial niqab from schools and colleges, saying that wearing the controversial face...

Austrian university recalls diploma for Holocaust gassing denier - 2010-01-19

VIENNA- A leading Austrian university announced Monday it had withdrawn a honorary diploma awarded to an engineer who had questioned the gassing of Jews in Nazi death camps. The Vienna University...
Poll underscores challenges to Saudi women grads

Poll underscores challenges to Saudi women grads - 2009-12-17

RIYADH, Paul Handley - Saudi female university students are ambitious and eager for job opportunities but their more conservative male counterparts are likely to put barriers in their way, a...
Hundreds of students attack Nicaraguan legislature

Hundreds of students attack Nicaraguan legislature - 2009-11-18

MANAGUA- Hurling homemade explosives, hundreds of Nicaraguan students attacked the country's legislature Tuesday over government plans to cut university funding, lawmakers said. The explosives...
Recession drives up US university enrollment: report

Recession drives up US university enrollment: report - 2009-10-31

WASHINGTON - Students are flocking to US universities at record levels, as the recession fuels an enrollment explosion at less expensive two-year colleges, a report said Friday. Just under 11.5...

Swedish women sue varsity over affirmative action - 2009-10-15

STOCKHOLM - A group of Swedish women filed a class-action lawsuit against a university Wednesday because it gave under-represented male students admissions priority, their lawyer said. "These...
Germany probes 100 academics over corruption: reports

Germany probes 100 academics over corruption: reports - 2009-08-23

BERLIN - Some 100 German academics have come under investigation following reports that they accepted bribes from students in exchange for doctorates, press reports said Saturday. Professors at a...
Remember students' Lockerbie deaths, university tells Britain

Remember students' Lockerbie deaths, university tells Britain - 2009-08-14

NEW YORK - The US university which lost 35 students in the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing on Thursday urged Britain to remember "the tremendous loss," as reports said the convicted bomber may be released...
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Michael Douglas optimistic despite serious throat cancer

Michael Douglas optimistic despite serious throat cancer
NEW YORK- Hollywood star Michael Douglas has admitted his throat cancer is more serious than first thought, but says he remains optimistic as he undergoes intensive treatment. "It's a stage four, which is intense, and they gotta go at it,"...