Despite most VSO volunteers working in education, there is still a shortage of primary teachers, says Mark Goldring. Much has been made in the press recently of Voluntary Service Overseas's new brand...
International Relations Theory and the Third World - The Rise of Asia - The Politics of International Economic Relations - International Relations - Exploring Contemporary Migration - Globalisation...
More than 3,000 foreign students overstayed their visas in Australia last year, raising fears that some students are using their enrolments in education institutions as a means to remain permanently...
Following the spectacular growth of the University of Phoenix, Jon Marcus reports on an increasing enthusiasm in the United States for for-profit higher education. Although for-profit companies have...
Open and distance learning is the future. David Hardy explains how Europe is overcoming the hurdles Higher education announces revolution more often than it achieves it. This is hardly surprising...
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission is considering an investigation into possible insider trading by senior academics and council members at the University of Melbourne. The share...
Asia continues its quest to find its own soul. For centuries, Asia has been at the receiving end of aggressive Western expansion which reached its height during the high period of colonial expansion...
The History of Cartography Volume Two, Book Three
Phoenicians
Theories of Earth's demise from the BA Festival of Science in Glasgow, September 3-7 Global climate change poses many health challenges for the world. Andy Haines says we are far from understanding...
British universities are predicting multi-million pound drops in fee income as Malaysia's currency crisis takes its toll on overseas student recruitment. International offices in institutions across...
Borders - An Ethnic History of Europe since 1945 - A History of the Balkans
A fee of Pounds 1,000 is likely to deter British students from spending a period of study abroad, the British Council has warned. Such a change might create an even greater imbalance between the...
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle A piece of clay pottery from a site in China may provide evidence of the earliest...
Pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome spent Pounds 1.15 billion on research and development in 1997, according to its annual report. The firm, which notched up global sales worth Pounds 8 billion, says...