Commission's 20 October update on avian influenza
Brussels, 24 October 2006 Full text of Document 14307/06 Suite of documents 14307/06 Brussels, 23 October NOTE from Commission to Council Subject: Written Information from the Commission on Avian...
Brussels, 24 October 2006 Full text of Document 14307/06 Suite of documents 14307/06 Brussels, 23 October NOTE from Commission to Council Subject: Written Information from the Commission on Avian...
British universities must not treat Asian students as "cash cows", a think-tank warned this week, saying that the good reputation of UK higher education is at stake. In a report on the challenges...
British universities have long taken a simple view of the Bologna Agreement. For once, they think, continental Europe has realised the superiority of the British approach and has changed its ways to...
Brussels, 10 May 2006 A new report warns that Europe is in danger of 'missing the boat' on commercial returns of nanotechnology, as the number of patent applications remain way below those from the...
Brussels, 04 Oct 2006 The paper industry has set a new recycling target of 66 per cent, to be reached by 2010. The signatories will award priority to waste prevention, improving the recyclability of...
The relationship between politics and religion will take centre stage at this year's Anglo-American Conference of Historians, University of London, July 5 to 7 The global community of evangelical...
Oxford targets bright young things of eastern Europe Oxford University hopes to entice eastern Europe's brightest students with scholarships worth £25,000 a year from October. The university has...
Demystifying the European Union: The Enduring Logic of Regional Integration Author: Roy H. Ginsberg Edition: First Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Price: £17.99 ISBN 9780742536555 This text places...
The Open University is seeking to become a global online university by building new partnerships at home and abroad. In a major document called OU Futures , the university, which already has 40,000...
The flu pandemic of 1918-19 claimed at least 50 million lives, yet only recently has its devastation and aftermath been studied. Guy Beiner examines a strange case of worldwide amnesia In 1918 and...
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Men and women have used cosmetics to beautify themselves since Neolithic times. But now, as Virginia Smith outlines, the production and sale of body-care products is a high-tech global business Local...
UK higher education cannot afford to be complacent about potential global rivals, argues Howard Davies. British universities have gone through a difficult passage. But after decades of declining...
Galina Yemelianova , a Russian specialist in Arabic and Islamic studies at Birmingham University, may speak six languages but she cannot persuade her children to follow her example. "I try to get...