Oxbridge leaves US finest trailing
While the UK comes top in science, no nation takes a definitive lead in technology. Martin Ince reports. Cambridge and Oxford emerge as the first and second highest ranked science universities in the...
While the UK comes top in science, no nation takes a definitive lead in technology. Martin Ince reports. Cambridge and Oxford emerge as the first and second highest ranked science universities in the...
Need to get to the bottom of that elusive research on excrement? Whether your quest is for the diet of those living in the Roman empire or honeybee faeces in Southeast Asia, an Alberta University...
The British Empire and the Second World War
Brussels, 29 Sep 2006 Last year, Orgalime, the European Engineering Industries Association, elected Edward Krubasik as its President. Professor Krubasik has a strong background in research (he has a...
Universities urged to consider expanding bursary schemes Universities should increase the number of bursaries they award to students wanting to enter law and medicine to ensure that top-up fees do...
Brussels, 20 Mar 2006 The News: With the projected increase in world population and an increase in life expectancy, the number of blind people in the world is likely to rise to more than 75 million...
The Changing Face of China
An Inconvenient Truth
Brussels, 19 Oct 2004 Executive Summary: The general guidelines and objectives provided in the European Commission document are largely shared by ETNO. The involvement of the main participants –...
Harvard abandons fast-track entry that favours elite Harvard University is to drop a controversial fast-track admission system for elite students in an attempt to open up America’s top colleges to...
Brussels, Feb 2006 One way to beat viruses is to knock them out with antiviral drugs. Another is to vaccinate against them beforehand. While this may work for some, such as measles and mumps, others...
Brussels, 10 July 2006 Europe risks a “brain drain” to Asia and America unless it makes innovation a priority and invests more in education, research and business knowledge,...
From delivering lectures in Kabul to delivering pizzas in London, academic refugee Haroon Amirzada's woes did not end when he escaped the Taleban I was tortured for two years in a Taleban prison. The...
Australia's deans of education have called on the federal Government to establish special universities to focus on training schoolteachers. In recent years, two thirds of faculties of education have...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2006 The news: The fifth Community Aeronautics Days event is to take place in Vienna. With up to 1,000 participants expected, this is a key event for European research and technology...