Brussels, 04 Apr 2005 The European Commission is financing a project aimed at ensuring that European research on mobile and wireless communication continues to be the motor for the research and...
The Indus Civilisation - A Peaceful Realm
Brussels, 26 Jan 2005 Major players from Europe's waterborne transport sector gathered in Bremen, Germany, on 25 January to launch a new Technology Platform in the sector and to begin work on...
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World - Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
World events have fuelled growing demand for Arabic language courses at American universities, but visa restrictions have created a shortage of people who can teach it, writes Jon Marcus in Boston....
Brussels, 16 Mar 2005 Research must be a top priority, but must be carried out in a truly European way and not be based on the US model, said Commission President José Manuel Barroso after...
Oxford and Cambridge join elite research alliance Oxford and Cambridge have joined a global group of 10 elite universities to collaborate in research and to exchange staff and students. Launched in...
University cutbacks have led to the loss of specialist knowledge of Asia, which is undermining diplomatic efforts to combat terrorism, say academics. A third of institutions that conduct research in...
Soas resumes talks over library cuts Negotiations over the future of one of the UK's leading specialist libraries will resume tomorrow, amid protests from academic staff. The School of Oriental and...
Singapore has opened its doors to its first foreign university. The University of New South Wales in Sydney is to open a A$96 million (£39 million) private teaching and research university in 2007...
Brussels, 14 June 2005 From today onwards, GÉANT2, Europe’s world-class research networking infrastructure, will use pulsed light (photons), rather than electrons, to carry huge...
Gannibal - The Moor of St Petersburg
Brussels, 06 Dec 2005 On 2 December, the European Parliament hosted a meeting gathering European stakeholders on type 1 diabetes and representatives of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF...
'Goldenballs' may be losing his lustre in the West, but in the East they bow down before David Beckham. Ellis Cashmore tells how myth and market combined in a fairytale with a happy and lucrative...