Science profits from 'hot' fossils
European palaeontologists are benefiting from the illegal side of the international fossil trade. Rare specimens of extinct life, such as Brazilian Pterosaurs and Chinese dinosaur eggs, are being...
European palaeontologists are benefiting from the illegal side of the international fossil trade. Rare specimens of extinct life, such as Brazilian Pterosaurs and Chinese dinosaur eggs, are being...
Next month, China extends its borders and gains the world-class software institute where Jonathan Bowen has just spent the summer Macau is only an hour's hydrofoil ride from Hong Kong across the...
Academics are at the frontline of exposing corruption, but winning the battle will require more effort. Karen MacGregor reports. The crucial role of research in the war against graft - especially its...
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Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities
The United States' political and military presence in Asia and the Pacific assumed massive proportions after the second world war. General Douglas MacArthur ruled Japan like a viceroy until he...
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Recent-history revelations are everywhere this weekend: part two of BBC2's Spying Game, the finale of C4's Can't Pay,...
Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia
Students do better when we focus on how they take in facts and turn them into wisdom, say Barbara Gorayska and Chris Lonsdale Students, looking slightly bored and hassled, file into a lecture theatre...
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British universities are predicting multi-million pound drops in fee income as Malaysia's currency crisis takes its toll on overseas student recruitment. International offices in institutions across...
France has belatedly started a determined campaign to catch up with its "Anglo-Saxon" competitors in the international market of higher education, setting out to entice foreign students, particularly...
ONE OF the world's most endangered birds, the Houbara bustard, has found saviours at the University of Abertay Dundee school of molecular and life sciences. Researchers at the university are battling...
Violent demonstrations in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, are a daily reminder that the result of the July general elections is still contested and that the country's bloody history cannot be easily...
The under-representation of non-white academics in British universities ("The colour blind spot", THES, March 5) is little short of a scandal, but by focusing almost exclusively on recruitment...