US and Asia announce climate change pact
Brussels, 28 Jul 2005 The US, Australia and several Asian countries have surprised European governments by announcing a pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement is non-binding, and will...
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Academics invited to save the world
Students, young academics, professionals and entrepreneurs are being encouraged to present fixes to some of the world’s most pressing challenges - in three minutes.
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Campus close-up: Cardiff University
A Wales-funded public policy institute is to supply evidence to policymakers and create an ‘innovation culture’
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Singapore Biennale 2013: a show that fizzes with ideas
Mutability and periphery come to the fore in an event focused on Southeast Asia’s artists, writes Peter Hill
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Rollback of post-study work rules mooted
Meeting at Treasury hints at moves to repair visa policy’s harm to universities
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From Where I Sit - Bologna, but with Asian spice
Europe is reshaping higher education through its Bologna Process, but it is not the only region to do so. A similar process is taking place on the other side of the world, but in a distinctly East...
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The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China, by Kerry Brown
Seven men rule the Middle Kingdom, but why them? Jonathan Mirsky on a study of Party potentates
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Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora by Neha Vora
Caroline Osella considers a slice of the subcontinent at the heart of the Gulf
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Eyewitness: Lifeline for South Asia's child labourers
Nepal's carpet industry has been a lucrative source of foreign earnings for one of the world's poorest countries, but its reliance on child labour has been heavily criticised. Children toil for hours...
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Australia sets sights on rebuilding overseas student market
Government speeds visas and extends post-study work opportunities
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UK needs links with US as well as Asia
British researchers are so eager to forge relationships with China and India that they are neglecting more profitable opportunities in the US, a report warned this week, writes Anna Fazackerley. Sir...
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Off Piste - Unfamiliar territory
To many in the West, Central Asia is a bewildering array of indistinguishable nations. But if you take the time to get to know them, argues David Mould, the ‘stans’ are fascinating individuals
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Rivalry hits Oz market in Asia
The lack of a coherent strategy to market Australian education institutions in Asia is putting a Aus$3 billion-a-year (Pounds 1.2 million) export industry at risk, according federal government...
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Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide between People and the Environment, by Kenneth Worthy
Laurence Coupe on a grand indictment of the ‘Western epistemological error’
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Greater London: the capital as city state
Malcolm Gillies on why the metropolis could (and perhaps should) go it alone