A visual revolution gets on the starting grid
From next week's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco. The internet has changed the way we communicate. John Connolly believes the access grid could change the...
From next week's American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco. The internet has changed the way we communicate. John Connolly believes the access grid could change the...
Lack of a single accreditation system for all degrees offered in the UK casts doubt over the value of some qualifications. Cherry Canovan reports. Now is the time of year when thousands of...
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia British universities and colleges are bracing for a new overseas recruitment crisis - in the Gulf. As vice-...
British universities rely too heavily on students from Southeast Asia. They must spread their net wider to avoid risk, says Marcel van Miert THE SLUMP in student recruitment from Southeast Asia has...
Pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome spent Pounds 1.15 billion on research and development in 1997, according to its annual report. The firm, which notched up global sales worth Pounds 8 billion, says...
MALAYSIA is to set up a Commonwealth University near Kuala Lumpur in a joint venture with Cambridge University, writes David Jobbins. Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Adbul Razak, the Malaysian education...
The countries of Central Asia are dismantling their Soviet science structures. Last year, Turkmenistan quietly dissolved its Academy of Sciences. Now Kazakhstan plans to do the same. The Soviet...
Reorient
Despite a Taliban crackdown on secular education, Afghan intellectuals are fighting back, albeit by establishing a university in neighbouring Pakistan. Chris Bunting reports. Mohammad Akbar Kargar's...
TBILISI Widespread corruption is one of the biggest obstacles to reform in Georgia, according to a World Bank report on university education in the former Soviet republic. A survey carried out at...
Loneliness is the biggest problem faced by foreign students forced to spend the Christmas holidays in this country, according to Chris Ng, international student secretary at the University of...
The Mummies of Ürümchi
Where in the world will major conflict flare up next? Tim Cornwell considers the likelihood of Pakistan and Colombia being the future flash points Guided cockroaches scuttling under doors to pinpoint...
Modern warfare can be a 'political entertainment' in which little is chanced, or a hell where civilians, not armies, are targeted. Mary Kaldor explains The 18th and 19th centuries were periods of...
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