UK prepares to cash in on foreign boom
British universities are set to benefit from an unprecedented boom in foreign study over the next 20 years, according to an international report published yesterday. Global demand for international...
British universities are set to benefit from an unprecedented boom in foreign study over the next 20 years, according to an international report published yesterday. Global demand for international...
MISCELLANY Ministers have intervened in a last-ditch attempt to stop Huntingdon Life Sciences, the laboratory company being targeted by animal rights activists, closing after its bank decided not to...
Paris, 01 Jul 2003 Students in Finland are among the world's best in terms of reading literacy, while students in Japan, Hong Kong-China and Korea lead in mathematics and science, according to a...
Monday The worst part about working on archaeological excavations is leaving friends and family for months at a time. During my flight to Turkey this year I miss my meal and they lose my bags. Not an...
Brendel in Performance (12.05 BBC2). Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, Haydn and Mozart. » Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (12.05 C4). Fourth of Kevin Warwick’s five lectures on robotics. Mozart...
Roger? Yes, mother. Enjoying the goose? You don't mind that we haven't had turkey this year? Not at all. What are these? Prunes, Roger. Prunes in Armagnac. Don't you like them? Oh yes, very nice....
Brussels, 24 April 2002 Where does our beefsteak come from? How are animals fed and treated? In the aftermath of the mad cow and other food scare crises, European consumers are more and more...
Environment, Human Rights and International Trade
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus boasts one of the best ratios of students to population in the world, with just under 10 per cent of the 200,000 population in higher and further education. In...
University tuition fees and student loans could be introduced in the Czech Republic by next year if controversial plans to overhaul higher education funding get the go-ahead. Sociologist Petr Matejuk...
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The home satellite dishes that deliver films and football to British front rooms are now enabling students to take an MBA. Swiss firm the Fantastic Corporation has developed a system that allows...
Refugees and asylum seekers in England, Finland and Sweden are being brought together by a multilingual website developed at Nottingham Trent University. Sue Thomas, artistic director of trAce Online...
A federal report based on a survey of US diplomats in 140 countries has identified red tape as an obstacle to US institutions that want to provide higher education abroad. But the survey, meant to...
Gender issues have been ignored by teachers of urban planning, according to coordinators of a conference in Istanbul. Turkey's first international symposium on gender dealt with the question of...