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Negotiate the minefield of local customs and you can gain personal and professional benefits from teaching abroad, finds Anthea Lipsett. When Diana Leonard signed up to teach at Fatima Jinnah Women...
Negotiate the minefield of local customs and you can gain personal and professional benefits from teaching abroad, finds Anthea Lipsett. When Diana Leonard signed up to teach at Fatima Jinnah Women...
China could be gold mine for Western publishers of learning materials, but it's not easy to enter, say Harriet Swain and Mandy Garner One day in September, 120,000 Chinese children aged between seven...
Female students outnumber men across the board Female university students now outnumber men across all subject areas, from engineering to medicine and law to physical sciences. New figures from...
Brussels, 26 Jul 2005 The EUREKA project 'Logchain Translog Safety' has developed a satellite-based system for monitoring the transportation of hazardous rail freight between Europe and Asia....
South Korean stem cell scientist sues for old job Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who was fired from one of the country's top universities after his team falsified landmark...
GOLD SPONSOR: THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMYThe Higher Education AcademyThe Higher Education Academy’s role is to be a nationwide focus for enhancing teaching, learning and students’ experiences in...
Canada's police complaints commission has urged the Mounties to apologise to student protesters for "inappropriate actions" at a Vancouver meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
The full text of all important European statements, speeches and announcements on research - from the European Union and bodies such as the European Space Agency - appears here: · Closer S&T...
The English-speaking world produces most of the leading global players in the arts and humanities, according to academics in the field. All but two of the top 20 universities in the world for arts...
Brussels, 28 April 2006 Communication and collaboration among 45 million researchers and students across Europe and China will be greatly facilitated by a new Sino-European high-speed network...
A new report shows that US students' knowledge of other nations is "weak and increasingly dangerous" and urges more international educational and foreign-language requirements in lower grades and in...
Cambridge University has netted £283,000 towards a project that aims to post on the web all the writings - published and unpublished - of Charles Darwin. John van Wyhe, project director, said the...
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Brussels, 18 October 2006 By Charlene Porter Washington File Staff Writer Scientists at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have developed a vaccine that protects mice...
Brussels, 17 October 2006 W3C Launches Secure Browsing Initiative - "Security Context" Important Step Toward Fraud Prevention (also available in French and Japanese; see also translations in other...