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...
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...
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Theories of Population Variation in Genes and GenomesBy Freddy Bugge Christiansen, professor of population biology, Aarhus University. Princeton University...
The Business of Empire
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,...
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...
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...
The House in Southeast Asia
Anyone who feels that research isn't glamorous clearly isn't working at the University of West of England or University College London. The two institutions announced this week that they have forged...
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...
What is your experience of teaching? Mandy Garner asks teachers how they manage Name: Rachel A. Harris Age: 35 Job: Lecturer in ethnomusicology at School of Oriental and African Studies Salary: £24,...
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...
The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume Eight, World Christianities c.1815-c.1914 - Volume Nine World Christianities c.1914-c.2000