Clothing firm taken to the cleaners
The Ivy League group of American universities has won a trademark dispute with a New Zealand company over the use of the term for a line of clothing. In January, Patent Office New Zealand ruled that...
The Ivy League group of American universities has won a trademark dispute with a New Zealand company over the use of the term for a line of clothing. In January, Patent Office New Zealand ruled that...
UK universities have great brand names and are good at research but not much else, a conference heard. Alison Goddard reports Universities and colleges should play to their strengths and stop trying...
India Unbound
An Institute of Islamic Civilisations is to be launched by the Karachi-based Aga Khan University as its first significant international initiative. The institute, which will be sited in London, aims...
Continuing our series of Big Science Questions, Mark Buchanan asks if we are in a post-evolutionary age, and Michael Ruse looks at our role in change. It is tempting to suppose that in this modern...
An international network of universities is preparing a series of special online courses largely geared at the Asian market. A meeting of the ten members of the Global University Alliance in...
To squat or sit, to flush or recycle, to accept top-down solutions or 'bottom-up' revolutions - toilet provision, or the lack of it, reveals a nation's soul, argues Clara Greed There is a great deal...
Hinduism and Ecology
Will it deliver designer babies to the wealthy or eradicate disease among the poor? Stephen Phillips ponders biotechnology's potential to shape our future, Francis Fukuyama (below, left) urges...
The greatest prize for humanity would be an end to poverty but there is no easy answer, writes James Mirrlees. Fifty years ago, health, peace and poverty reduction were the world's priorities, but...
Women and Islam in Bangladesh
China and Historical Capitalism
'Back to Japan for more engagements and a lecture on Saturday. Monday: back to the UK for funding council meetings and then off to Poland for two lectures. Today, Wednesday, is the first time I have...
The Internet
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