Brussels, 16 December 2002 On December 17, the Commission will publish the first calls for proposals for the 6 th EU Research Framework Programme (FP6 2002-2006). Research centres, universities and...
One of the world's unsung endangered species, the river dolphin, can be saved given sufficient funds and the political will. Male pink dolphins make nocturnal forays into the small human communities...
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
George Soros is giving hope to refugees from an oppressive regime. Maureen Aung-Thwin discusses the aims of the philanthropist. People are intrigued that the foundation network created by Hungarian-...
Innovation Lecture 2002 Dear Mr Wijn, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and a pleasure to address you here, in the birthplace of Dutch democracy. It is also a difficult task to intervene after...
Japan is unlikely to meet its target of having 100,000 foreign students in its higher education system by 2000. The number of foreign students choosing to study in Japan has started to fall after...
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia British universities and colleges are bracing for a new overseas recruitment crisis - in the Gulf. As vice-...
Small, focused efforts will deliver success in net-based learning, says Roger Waterhouse Everyone knows of the huge potential for e-learning. In a short space of time, the internet could...
The first students to enrol at Britain's new e-university will probably be using traditional distance-learning materials, the funding council has said. The e-university was launched last week by...
Ethnomusicologists are looking to the future as much as to the past in exploring diverse musical traditions, says Michael Church. Cometh the hour, cometh the man: the fact that we know so much about...
Thirty years ago, it would have been difficult to travel around Western Europe speaking only English. This is not true today. In fact, the standard of English among the educated in some of these...
George Joffe, whose acrimonious departure from his post as deputy director of Chatham House highlighted divisions in the foreign affairs institute, this week disclosed his blueprint for its future,...
The Euro could displace the dollar as the major international currency outside the United States and Asia if financial markets integrate rapidly enough, researchers say. Economists Richard Portes of...
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author whose inexact anagram was to become immortal: "My dear Mark, Today...
Australians vote next week in a referendum to decide whether the country will cut its 210-year-old ties to the British monarchy and become a republic. Although polls show a clear majority favours a...