Germans skip UK for Australia
British universities are losing foreign students to their Australian counterparts as Germans choose increasingly to go Down Under to study, improve their English and get a suntan into the bargain....
British universities are losing foreign students to their Australian counterparts as Germans choose increasingly to go Down Under to study, improve their English and get a suntan into the bargain....
The gloves came off in higher education this week after a group of United Kingdom universities advertising themselves as elite institutions revealed plans to target the domestic market. The Sterling...
Brussels, 11 April 2002 Speaking to a Brussels audience on 10 April, President of the German research organisation the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Professor Hans-Jürgen...
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: 11.4 per cent of the student population came from overseas to study in the United Kingdom compared with 10.4 per cent in 1994...
China is courting India, seeing it as the key to high-tech English-speaking western markets, writes Wang Gungwu Improved diplomatic relations between India and China will not have dramatic effects on...
Humans do not develop by buying mobile phones and BMWs, argues Thai environmentalist Sulak Sivaraksa, who believes a sustainable future requires a little bit of spiritual enlightenment. Chris Bunting...
In the last of our series on tourism, Chris Ryan considers how academic studies of sex tourism can help sex workers gain human rights and promote responsible travelling Sex tourism as a topic of...
The government and the British Council have announced details of a one-year scholarship scheme to support students affected by the Asia currency crisis. Universities and colleges have been given...
Evidence suggests that man must have travelled by boat as early as 40,000BC, but the oldest known craft dates from just 8000BC. Sean McGrail reports. It is a little-known fact that there were seamen...
Brussels, 16 December 2002 On December 17, the Commission will publish the first calls for proposals for the 6 th EU Research Framework Programme (FP6 2002-2006). Research centres, universities and...
The Generalissimo's Son
When you're lying on that beach in Belize congratulating yourself that as an ecotourist you're not damaging the environment and are helping the local economy, think again, says Rosaleen Duffy. When...
The Tarim Mummies
PHAROAHS AND THE FLEA The true curse of the pharaohs has been identified among remains left by Tutankhamun's tomb workers and guards - fleas. The excavation of a 3,300-year-old village in the...
Australia's federal government plans to change immigration rules to make it easier for foreign students to remain after completing their studies as part of an effort to address a growing brain drain...