Recruitment drive Down Under
The British Council will launch a drive this month to attract more Australian students to study in Britain. It wants to boost the numbers by 70 per cent over the next three years to more than 3,000....
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Offshore campus opens
AUSTRALIA's largest university is expected to open two more offshore campuses, one in South Africa and another in Indonesia, following its success in Malaysia. More than 400 students enrolled at the...
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UK team helps to save rare bustard
ONE OF the world's most endangered birds, the Houbara bustard, has found saviours at the University of Abertay Dundee school of molecular and life sciences. Researchers at the university are battling...
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A bit of profit and gloss
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Stylish theory kinda guy
Worldly Wise: 13. Economist Paul Krugman is pugnacious, contrary - and often right. He forecast East Asia's crisis and he has a controversial prescription. Huw Richards reports Economist Paul Krugman...
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Science profits from 'hot' fossils
European palaeontologists are benefiting from the illegal side of the international fossil trade. Rare specimens of extinct life, such as Brazilian Pterosaurs and Chinese dinosaur eggs, are being...
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Tigers, tigers spurning rights
The West may believe that its concept of democracy should be applied universally but many in East Asia insist on an alternative model. Michael Leifer reports. When the Cold War ended the ideological...
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The Edward Said of the ancient world
Heresy in the University - Afrocentrism
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Saving fragile forests
David Thomas reports on the international effort to preserve the lifeblood of Vietnamese coastal communities from further destruction Between 1961 and 1971, 19 million gallons of the deadly herbicide...
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Warwick's industry turns profit from academic expertise
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links The University of Warwick is...
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Lessons closer to home
The Bangkok gathering of heads of Asian and European governments earlier this month was unusual. It took one regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN), to bring another,...
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Asian forces alter the status quo
The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm
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Afghan intellect blossoms in exile
Despite a Taliban crackdown on secular education, Afghan intellectuals are fighting back, albeit by establishing a university in neighbouring Pakistan. Chris Bunting reports. Mohammad Akbar Kargar's...
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New power generation
A lightweight electricity generator developed by Imperial College engineers is set torevolutionise industry. Kam Patel reports A company formed on the back of revolutionary lightweight electricity...
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Hogmanay kiss mixes emotions
Wanseo Koo's introduction to the traditional British Christmas dinner was a festive Yorkshire pudding. Mr Koo, a Heriot-Watt student from South Korea, spent Christmas with friends whose oven broke...