The measure of imperial rulers
Empires are built for a variety of motives -a quest for wealth, an urge to dominate, a wish to impose order on haphazard conquest, even a desire to do good. But, says Hugh Thomas, they do share one...
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Can't stem progress
The UK could profit from the US' politicking with basic biomedical research, says Roger Pedersen If you've seen the movie The Graduate, you'll remember the scene in which the financier walks over to...
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Building bloc of clicks 'n' mortar
Online courses offered by a consortium of universities are attracting much interest in Asia and Europe. Geoff Maslen, in Melbourne, reports. The first specially developed courses to be delivered...
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Making the world a smaller place
Brussels, 23 Oct 2003 An Austrian company is set to revolutionise communication between Europe's citizens with the launch of a large round screen which allows one-to-one, real time, oral and visual...
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Making the world a smaller place
Brussels, 23 Oct 2003 An Austrian company is set to revolutionise communication between Europe's citizens with the launch of a large round screen which allows one-to-one, real time, oral and visual...
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Astronomers on virtual quest to map digital universe
Brussels, 03 Mar 2003 There is a huge, unexplored universe out there, but astronomers are breaking with centuries of tradition and turning away from their telescopes and towards their computers in...
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Proba workshop: small satellite yielding beautiful results
Paris, 25 Mar 2005 Photos In orbit for three and a half years now, ESA's smallest Earth Observation satellite is making a big contribution to science, a workshop heard this week. Proba applications...
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World Education Market 2003
"Advancing the Millennium of Learning" is the theme of this year's WEM conference and exhibition (Lisbon, Portugal: May 20-23, 2003), of which The THES is a media partner. Now in its fourth year, WEM...
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Developing nations join as market beckons
More than 50 universities in Africa, Latin America and Asia have formed the Southern Universities Network to prepare for competition in the higher education market. The network is the brainchild of...
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Romano Prodi: Research, innovation and competitiveness: the global challenge facing Europe, University of Genoa Opening of the 2003/04 Academic Year Genoa, 9 January 2004
Genoa, 9 January 2004 Mr Vice-Chancellor, Distinguished visitors, Professors, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear students, 2004 is a special year for Europe, as it is for Genoa. This year Genoa is the...
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Romano Prodi: Research, innovation and competitiveness: the global challenge facing Europe, University of Genoa Opening of the 2003/04 Academic Year Genoa, 9 January 2004
Genoa, 9 January 2004 Mr Vice-Chancellor, Distinguished visitors, Professors, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear students, 2004 is a special year for Europe, as it is for Genoa. This year Genoa is the...
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Today's news
Brown promises billions to science Gordon Brown will make science and engineering the centrepiece of this summer’s spending round, announcing a policy review in the Budget to identify investment...
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Today's news
Brown promises billions to science Gordon Brown will make science and engineering the centrepiece of this summer’s spending round, announcing a policy review in the Budget to identify investment...
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Earthly power behind the divine glory
Why do religious and spiritual movements wax and wane? As pews empty in the West, spirituality steps into the breach. Elsewhere, the faithful flock to organised religion when it is allied to earthly...
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Protests fail to save East Asian studies
The atmosphere was sombre this week at Durham University's department of East Asian studies. Despite very public protestations from former cabinet ministers, senior diplomats, eminent academics and...