The men fuelled by their desire to reorient the East
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BBC quiz goes global
The BBC television show University Challenge is going global. Victorious teams from Queen's University, Belfast, Aberystwyth University, Birkbeck College and Edinburgh University are being pitted...
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Today's news
Asian students flocking to Australia Australia is growing in popularity among Asian students, while the UK and the US are losing ground as the place to study for a degree, claims an international...
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Beyond the Lost Horizon clichés
A History of Nepal
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Norman Stone: review
TURKS Royal Academy of Arts, London, until April 12. www.turks.org.uk "It mutilates you if you cannot read the language of your grandparents' tombs," says a Turkish friend. This applies not only to...
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Cure for malaria is tested
Pre-clinical studies of a cheap and powerful new cure for malaria are about to begin. Scientists have designed and synthesised a chemical that is easy to make and can wipe out the parasite...
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Leader: A healthy map of academic rivalry
The Times Higher 's first world ranking of universities is sure to have its critics: every league table does. But this is an idea whose time has come. Richard Lambert said so in his report on...
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Future brightens for north Cypriots
Higher education in the Turkish-controlled area of Cyprus continues to languish under an international embargo after Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations' latest reunification plan. The...
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Enterprising Middlesex
Middlesex University won the Queen's award for enterprise this week, in recognition of its recruitment of a high number of overseas students. It boosted overseas student numbers by 43 per cent...
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Hungary host first world science forum
Brussels, 22 Oct 2003 Under the patronage of the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, and the President of the Republic of Hungary, Ferenc Madl, the first world science forum will take...
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Hungary host first world science forum
Brussels, 22 Oct 2003 Under the patronage of the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, and the President of the Republic of Hungary, Ferenc Madl, the first world science forum will take...
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Appointments
The new chief executive of the Association of Colleges is John Brennan, currently director of further education development. Mr Brennan joined the Department of Education and Science in 1968, after...
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To Bollywood and beyond
South Asian Popular Culture
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Unity urged for African revival
South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, has called on African universities to raise their voices on the continental stage to assist development and respond to unprecedented support from developed...
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Rise in tuberculosis cases requires action
Brussels, 31 Mar 2006 Drastic rises in the numbers of TB cases in Eastern Europe have caused alarm around the EU. Tuberculosis (TB) infects up to one-third of the world's population, and kills more...