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French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen called for a "New Deal" on immigration and slammed the emergence of a "Soviet European Union" during a fiery speech at Britain's Cambridge University on Tuesday.

• 20 февраля 2013, 15:31

US medical specialists from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have figured out how owls can almost fully rotate their heads - by as much as 270 degrees in either direction.

• 03 февраля 2013, 12:52

Around 60 students at Harvard University have been suspended and others disciplined in a mass cheating scandal at the elite college.

• 02 февраля 2013, 14:41

Providence County Superior Court has sentenced 22-y.o. American James Still to 15 years in prison, four to serve, for the “devastating assault on a fellow student”.

• 25 января 2013, 12:59

Hiroshima University said Thursday it would bestow honorary doctorates on three former students from Southeast Asia who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city.

• 28 декабря 2012, 10:03

Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Monday confirmed a government decision to officially recognise the status of the first Israeli university established in the occupied West Bank.

• 26 декабря 2012, 10:53

The End Of The World As We Know It -- TEOTWAWKI -- is littered with predictions that didn't quite pan out.

• 13 декабря 2012, 11:00

You glimpse a stranger standing in the street. The light is hazy and the person's face and clothing are indistinct. Who is it?

• 18 октября 2012, 10:21

Portraits of toppled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi may no longer adorn the walls of Tripoli University, but it is likely to be a long time before new values and higher standards become entrenched there.

• 16 октября 2012, 12:25

US and British universities continue to dominate in academic excellence but Asia is catching up fast, said an influential education rankings report.

• 04 октября 2012, 15:17

For students seeking to become cyber warriors, the US government has a sweet deal.

• 29 сентября 2012, 12:58

A California college has agreed to pay 21 students $30,000 each in compensation for a police pepper spraying incident that sparked a storm last year.

• 28 сентября 2012, 11:55

Over 10 thousand foreign students from 45 countries, including 250 students from Turkey, are studying in Kazakhstan: Education Minister.

• 18 сентября 2012, 12:55

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a 56-year-old university lecturer chosen by lawmakers Monday as Somalia's new president, is something of an unknown quantity.

• 11 сентября 2012, 16:28

Kazakhstan's boxer Serik Sapiyev will become a miner, however he is undecided yet what field of work to choose.

• 04 сентября 2012, 14:45

A London university on Monday announced it was launching legal action over the government's decision to revoke its right to sponsor visas, a move that threatens thousands of students with deportation.

• 04 сентября 2012, 14:33

As many as 125 students at Harvard University are being probed for allegedly cheating in a final exam at the elite institution.

• 31 августа 2012, 19:01

Education Ministry is considering merging the universities in Taraz, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Uralsk, Aktobe, Kostanay, Kokshetau and Shymkent.

• 11 августа 2012, 11:53

Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University has filed a suit against US tech giant Apple, claiming the company's Siri intelligent assistant has infringed on two of its patents.

• 30 июля 2012, 17:43

Top officials at Penn State University showed "total and consistent disregard" for the well-being of the young victims of a pedophilia scandal.

• 14 июля 2012, 11:24