Can UK make a great leap in knowledge?
Claire Sanders looks at why Chinese studies is struggling in the UK when China is booming. Oxford University's appointment of Cornell professor Vivienne Shue as its first professor of contemporary...
Claire Sanders looks at why Chinese studies is struggling in the UK when China is booming. Oxford University's appointment of Cornell professor Vivienne Shue as its first professor of contemporary...
Innovation Lecture 2002 Dear Mr Wijn, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and a pleasure to address you here, in the birthplace of Dutch democracy. It is also a difficult task to intervene after...
Blue-chip talent to help poor schools Britain’s brightest graduates are to be invited to spend two years’ “national service” teaching in London’s roughest schools before heading off to lucrative jobs...
Committees representing Australian and French vice-chancellors have signed a formal agreement on co-operation involving staff and student exchanges, research collaboration and mutual recognition of...
Bats may be ugly and smelly but, Daniel Bennett says, they sound wonderful. Just after dusk we were on a canoe in the Mozambique Bay. Hundreds of bats were flying over the sea and the sound was...
Friday An early start for Chennai, via Newcastle, Heathrow and Dubai. I am spending a week in southern India on behalf of the Sterling Group, an informal aggregate of 23 UK engineering departments...
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun - Nearest Star
A new report has urged the Australian government to work more closely with India in the development of information technology products. The report by Australia's overseas export organisation Austrade...
Jihad - Jihad - The Shade of Swords - Inside Al-Qaeda - The Clash of Fundamentalisms
Harvard professors Erza Vogel and William Kirby used Beijing University's centennial celebrations as a platform to urge far greater expansion of Sino-US contacts in wide-ranging areas to resolve...
Tatarstan, a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, is preparing to switch the script used for the Tatar language from Cyrillic to the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet. Next month,...
Tzvetan Todorov ("A case of right over might", THES February 9) makes an interesting contribution to the debate on humanitarian intervention but some points should be made in response. Todorov's...
The Euro could displace the dollar as the major international currency outside the United States and Asia if financial markets integrate rapidly enough, researchers say. Economists Richard Portes of...
The Man who Found the Missing Link
Kabul University is beginning the difficult task of rebuilding after being destroyed, literally and figuratively, by decades of war, despite a lack of basic infrastructure, including water,...