Lifestyle lures Brits to study Down Under
The number of students leaving Britain's rainy shores to study at Australian universities has leapt by 44 per cent in the past year, new figures show. This year, 1,710 UK students opted for courses...
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Glass teeth to make your mouth water
Beadwork
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The sound of thunder
The Spectre of Comparisons
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The past predicts a fragile future
Lineages of the Present - The Geopolitics of South Asia - Reinventing India
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Today's papers
Brown cloud threatens Asia and Europe A team of international climatologists led by Nobel laureate Professor Paul Grutzen has said they have identified the 'Asian brown cloud' -- a 10 million square...
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Latest international news
Yale offers incentive to foreign students Yale University is to extend its "need-blind" admission policy to foreign students, guaranteeing that it will financially support successful applicants. The...
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Will plague and pox be the weapons of choice in future?
Lessons from the Soviet biological weapons programme are relevant to today's efforts to prevent the offensive use of disease, says John Hart The threat of biological warfare has been much debated...
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Identikit candidate for a global job
A survey of university recruitment has produced an Identikit profile of the strongly internationalised professor. S/he is young (between 30 and 35 years old), a professor of management or engineering...
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Jakarta
Australian vice-chancellors signed an historic cooperation agreement with Indonesia's higher education authority last week. Besides joint research programmes, staff and student exchanges will be...
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Jet lag linked to psychosis
Jet lag can prompt relapses of psychotic disorders and could trigger new cases in predisposed individuals. A study of 152 foreign tourists admitted to the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Centre in Jerusalem...
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Rome returns to Libya
Libya has entrusted the largest treasure trove of ancient Roman coins ever found, more than 100,000 items, to the Italian National Research Council for restoration and study. The Libyan antiquities...
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Gaining insight through a grain of rice
The Dravidian Languages
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Gaining insight through a grain of rice
The Dravidian Languages
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Spin out company founder says thank you to EU and ESA
Brussels, 18 July 2002 At the launch of a new space incubator network, ESINET, in Brussels on 17 July, Tony Anson from Brunel University in the UK outlined how funding from the EU, the European space...
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MM 2001: Human Rights - People
UN expert charged with investigating torture Governments do not look forward to getting a letter signed by Sir Nigel Rodley , professor of law at Essex University's Human Rights Centre. For he is the...