Brussels, 30 June 2004 In a knowledge-based economy, where new ideas and scientific knowledge are central to innovation and growth, investment in human resources in science & technology (S...
Education minister Jack Lang and foreign affairs minister Hubert Védrine have set up a council to improve support for foreigners coming to study in France. The Conseil National pour L'accueil des...
On its website, the Burmese regime describes Burma as "historical", with a civilisation dating back many centuries, and stresses its own role in uncovering Burmese history. Over the past decade it...
Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...
Paris, 22 Oct 2002 An international conference on Space Applications for Heritage Conservation will open in Strasbourg, France on 5 November. The aim: to bring together experts on space and those...
Global Corruption Report 2004
"Now that you are spending more time in Leeds you need to get some exercise." "Fine, I'll spend more time at the football club." Such Sunday morning banter with my wife eventually led me to become...
The World since 1945
Relief all round at victory for the Ivy League in its long-running trademark battle against a New Zealand company. Pacific Dunlop Asia tried to launch a range of "Ivy League" fashion accessories, but...
The global anticapitalist movement links millions of ordinary people worldwide and has no historical precedent. So why are so few anthropologists involved? asks Nancy Lindisfarne. The third European...
Environmental Movements in Asia
Academic conference organisers are being warned that they risk being targeted by international gangs who traffic in illegal immigrants. David Bustard, head of Ulster University's School of...
Tired of indifferent, unanalytical history textbooks? Jeremy Black opts for surprising alternatives that first appeared in 1902 - the Cambridge Histories. Textbooks. We all think we know what they...
The insistence of the old Soviet regime that it approve any new university programmes no longer hangs heavily on a rejuvenated Far Eastern State University. President Vladimir Kurilov's Vladivostok...
Private universities are a valuable asset to any country if they are regulated appropriately, says Roger King. Governments everywhere regard a robust and growing higher education system as essential...