Sport offers a chance for the thinking man
John Callaghan is a professor of sport and is an expert on his subject in many more ways than one. The head of the department of exercise science at the University of Southern California is adept at...
John Callaghan is a professor of sport and is an expert on his subject in many more ways than one. The head of the department of exercise science at the University of Southern California is adept at...
More than 2.53 million Chinese have applied to take this year's higher education entrance examinations, about 20,000 more than last year. Universities and colleges of higher education across the...
Private companies are springing up in Italy to guide students through the country's complex, bureaucratic and user-unfriendly university system. For a fee, the firms take students in hand, provide...
States that have already undergone some economic and social modernisation under previous authoritarian regimes are likely to fare better in the transition to democracy. So argued Hans-Jeurgen Puhle,...
The rule that technology changes lives, but never quite in the manner foreseen, is rarely better exemplified than in the career of Gerard Bouchard, professor of history at the University of Quebec,...
One Friday night back in June Bosco Boscovich went out to dinner in Perth, Australia, with some friends from Curtin University. After a bottle or two of wine the talk turned to the decision by the...
Huw Richards reports from the International Congress of Historical Sciences meeting in Montreal last week. A strong sense of deja-vu grips Canada as it contemplates the siege of protesting native...
The imposition of Soviet-style regimes across the liberated nations of central and eastern Europe was not Stalin's initial aim after the second world war, says a leading Hungarian analyst. Mihaly...
The practice of history in the conventional western sense is a comparatively recent phenomenon in Africa, says the Nigerian historiographer G. Akin Akinola. The specialist in African histography and...
(Photograph) - Students at Europe's first Academy of Oriental Cuisine begin a three-year NVQ course in Chinese cookery this month. It aims to produce star chefs to rank with the best from France and...
Biotechnologists have transformed the sugar beet plant so that it has a rounded bottom rather than a conical one. Each conically-shaped plant drags clods of earth with it when it is plucked from the...
Gene testing is being used for all sorts of applications, reports Rifat Malik. When scientists developed DNA testing they could not have envisaged its myriad of uses. It can now trace ancestors...
British manufacturing firms innovate because of pressure from the market-place and not as a result of strategies developed by management, a survey has found. According to Michael West, project...
A Highland University now exists at Inverness College, according to Andrew Miller, principal of Stirling University. Twenty-eight students this week graduated in Inverness with Stirling University...
Salvador Moncada, who pioneered research into the role of nitric oxide in the body, is to quit his job as chief scientist at Wellcome, the drug company that was recently taken over by Glaxo, and move...