Net speeds to next level
The high-speed internet moved a stage closer last week with the demonstration in the United States of virtual surgery, broadcast-quality video and terabyte-size data library transfers over a national...
The high-speed internet moved a stage closer last week with the demonstration in the United States of virtual surgery, broadcast-quality video and terabyte-size data library transfers over a national...
While researching a strain of typhoid wreaking havoc in Vietnam, British scientists made a chilling discovery. At the heart of the typhoid bug they glimpsed the Black Death. Steve Farrar reports. It...
Financier George Soros has established a pilot project to help support North Korea's first moves to a mixed economy. A group of seven North Korean graduate students are studying law, economics and...
The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee has toughened its code of ethical practice following allegations that some universities had used questionable tactics to boost their enrolments of overseas...
The Royal Academy of Engineering has given fellowships to: Anthony Ball, director of materials engineering, University of Cape Town; Yvonne Barton, chairman of British Gas Asia Pacific Pte Limited;...
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The British Council will launch a drive this month to attract more Australian students to study in Britain. It wants to boost the numbers by 70 per cent over the next three years to more than 3,000....
When it became obvious about a year ago that certain Asian currencies were not going to regain their previous strength, several countries took drastic steps to stop sending students to study in the...
The Cambridge History of China, Volume Eight - The Cambridge History of Ancient China
David Robinson has become the only Englishman in the past 20 years to have been successively appointed vice chancellor at two Australian universities. A former pro vice chancellor at the University...
AUSTRALIA's largest university is expected to open two more offshore campuses, one in South Africa and another in Indonesia, following its success in Malaysia. More than 400 students enrolled at the...
Cardiff University Honorary fellowships: Claude Allegre, French minister of education, research and technology; David Cooksey, chair of the university's Challenge Fund Steering Group; Ieuan Evans,...
THE GERMAN state of Baden-Wurttemberg is planning to set up a private international university to attract more foreign students to the region. Education minister Klaus von Trotha is studying the...
Welsh College of Music and Drama Honorary fellowships have been awarded to: Keith Allen, actor; Roy Bohana, music director of the Arts Council for Wales to 1997; Julian Bream, lutenist; Rebecca Evans...
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