Helping the world to breathe more easily
In the battle against climate change, good intentions are not enough. Lobbyists must become more Machiavellian. Fred Pearce reports. Know your enemy." It has been Paul Harris's motto as United States...
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
With 97 million people expected in higher education by 2010, universities worldwide are moving into South America, China and the Gulf in an attempt to bag the new recruits first, says Tony Tysome...
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We don't lack skill -just political will
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
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We don't lack skill -just political will
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
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Germans skip UK for Australia
British universities are losing foreign students to their Australian counterparts as Germans choose increasingly to go Down Under to study, improve their English and get a suntan into the bargain....
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Eyewitness: Moscow fears over Cyrillic script switch
Tatarstan, a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, is preparing to switch the script used for the Tatar language from Cyrillic to the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet. Next month,...
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Tribal hostilities eclipse
Before Taliban - The Pathan Unarmed
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World Wide Web Consortium Approves Patent Policy - W3C Members, Director Establish Policy for Encouraging Royalty-Free Web Standards
http://www.w3.org/ -- 21 May 2003 Today, the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) announced approval of the W3C Patent Policy , based on widespread Member endorsement, agreement in the W3C Patent Policy...
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Germans bid to rebuild Kabul
Kabul University is beginning the difficult task of rebuilding after being destroyed, literally and figuratively, by decades of war, despite a lack of basic infrastructure, including water,...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Bristol and Bath are to be the first universities in the UK to form a joint venture science park. Stefan Wagstyl says that Akademgorodok, the campus town housing Russia's scientific...
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Students urged to go abroad
THENUMBER of young Australians working and studying in the Asia-Pacific region will rise significantly if initiatives gaining support are successful. Powerful voices have spoken out over the past...
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Serial killer halted by headlines and hype
A vaccine for Sars may still be a long way off but, says Anna Fazackerley, the spread of the virus has been slowed by coverage in the press It might seem a classic media scare. A new and deadly...
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Aga Khan unveils plans for London-based Islamic institute
An Institute of Islamic Civilisations is to be launched by the Karachi-based Aga Khan University as its first significant international initiative. The institute, which will be sited in London, aims...
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Today's news
First state school alumnus heads Oxford college The first alumnus of a comprehensive school to head an Oxford college has taken up his post. Andrew Dilnot, 42, former director of the Institute of...
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When is a call for alms a call to arms?
Muslim charities provide extensive humanitarian aid but, writes Jonathan Benthall, critics accuse some of straying into terrorist territory. Birmingham-based Islamic Relief was one of the few aid...