Putting Canada in the frame
Brussels, 30 Sep 2002 Dr Christophe Sensen of the University of Calgary, Canada, is well placed to discuss Canadian collaboration with the EU. A German who went across to Canada over a decade ago, he...
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International organisation to help developing country researchers with intellectual property issues
Brussels, 11 February 2002 An international organisation is to be set up later this year to assist governments and health researchers in the developing world to negotiate better deals for drug access...
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Don's Diary
Weekend Combination of catching up on piles of reading marked "not urgent", domestic matters put off for weeks; and preparation for a visit to Kyrgyzstan. It is here, in Central Asia (formerly part...
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Crusader tries to awaken Japan
Japan's Past, Japan's Future
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Bengal, Burke and Bertie Wooster
Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World
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Inquiry criticises police action at student protest
An inquiry has criticised the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for "inappropriate conduct" while trying to quell student protests during an international summit on global trade at the University of...
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Envisat focuses on carbon-rich peat swamp forest fires
Paris, 06 Aug 2003 Multiple sensors on ESA's Envisat environmental satellite have been used to peer beneath a vast pall of smoke above tropical Borneo and detect fire hotspots – known to add millions...
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Minister denies fee-payers get special treatment
Australia's vice-chancellors and education minister have issued a joint statement across Southeast Asia refuting claims that Australian universities are manipulating examination results in favour of...
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Foreign intake fires NZ growth
New Zealand universities are predicting growth of more than 20 per cent in international student numbers this year, due to a low exchange rate, agreements with Chinese universities and a flood of...
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Dragon finds use for Cobra
China is courting India, seeing it as the key to high-tech English-speaking western markets, writes Wang Gungwu Improved diplomatic relations between India and China will not have dramatic effects on...
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Dating game is nice earner
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. Nigeria's 500,000 students are struggling...
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Australia sees tech future with India
A new report has urged the Australian government to work more closely with India in the development of information technology products. The report by Australia's overseas export organisation Austrade...
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Aceh rector shot dead as guerrilla tension flares
Compared with the carnage in New York, it was a small act of terrorism. Dayan Dawood, rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, was heading back from the campus through the centre of town in...
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Don's diary: A global nomad
Tuesday Setting off for an expert meeting on backpacking, I find, despite my supposed expertise in the subject, that I am overloaded. Every time I travel, I swear I will travel lighter next time. The...
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A search for unity in a broad church
Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century - Seeking Bauls of Bengal - The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism - Indian Religions