Brussels, 05 Jul 2005 In the forthcoming call for proposals under the 'food quality and safety' strand of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), New Zealand is expected to be specified as one of the...
Brussels, 08 Sep 2006 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a stark warning - to act immediately to stop the spread of a tuberculosis strain with extreme drug resistance (XDR-TB), which has...
Brussels, 17 October 2006 W3C Launches Secure Browsing Initiative - "Security Context" Important Step Toward Fraud Prevention (also available in French and Japanese; see also translations in other...
China could be gold mine for Western publishers of learning materials, but it's not easy to enter, say Harriet Swain and Mandy Garner One day in September, 120,000 Chinese children aged between seven...
Art schools in the Asia-Pacific region are offering lecturers unlimited prospects and a better quality of life. British schools should watch out. Martyn Bull reports. Art and design higher education...
Virologists at Cambridge University have teamed up with scientists from the Roslin Institute to create genetically modified chickens that can resist the lethal H5N1 avian flu virus, writes Yfke van...
The Business of Empire
A UK epidemiologist aims to forge new links with China and Vietnam to fight emerging infectious diseases Anne Johnson will travel to China and Vietnam this week as part of a Medical Research Council...
Citations might sometimes be lacking, finds Martin Ince, but numerous Asian and Australian universities are well regarded by academics around the world. In terms of higher education, the rest of the...
Brussels, 10 July 2006 Europe risks a “brain drain” to Asia and America unless it makes innovation a priority and invests more in education, research and business knowledge,...
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT• Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family BusinessesBy David Landes, professor emeritus of history and economics, Harvard UniversityPenguin, £9.99. ISBN...
The English-speaking world produces most of the leading global players in the arts and humanities, according to academics in the field. All but two of the top 20 universities in the world for arts...
University-business ventures are in desperate need of an R&D rethink, says Simon Davey UK university-business collaboration has been unsuccessful for too long. The UK has an exceptionally...
While the UK comes top in science, no nation takes a definitive lead in technology. Martin Ince reports. Cambridge and Oxford emerge as the first and second highest ranked science universities in the...
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