Snatched in Sudan, captive in Khartoum
Trafficking of humans is a global crisis, writes Harold Hongju Koh, but there are ways in which we can stem the flow. The US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices identify at...
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Snatched in Sudan, captive in Khartoum
Trafficking of humans is a global crisis, writes Harold Hongju Koh, but there are ways in which we can stem the flow. The US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices identify at...
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Iberian spin-offs start to spring up
Spin-off companies are starting to appear in Spain and Portugal after link-ups between industry and universities. Chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay is involved in two new spin-offs in the...
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Prior information notice on services, commerce, tourism, e-business and IDA
Brussels, 13 March 2002 The European Commission's Enterprise DG has issued a prior information notice for calls for tenders for services, commerce, tourism, e-business and IDA (interchange of data...
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Shooting back at the journalist snipers
Journal of Media Practice
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New eEurope action plan to have fewer priorities than predecessor
Brussels, 08 May 2002 The new eEurope 2005 action plan will have fewer and more focused priorities than its predecessor, the eEurope 2002 action plan, EU Commissioner for Enterprise and Information...
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Speaking their language
Alison Utley listens in at Leeds in the latest in our series on university cities. When schoolteachers approached the University of Leeds last year to ask whether any linguists would be willing to...
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Philippe BUSQUIN: Address to the GMES Steering Committee Meeting GMES Steering Brussels, 19 March 2002
Brussels, 19 March 2002 Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to extend to you a very warm welcome to this first meeting of the GMES Steering Committee. I am delighted to see gathered in this room the...
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Full heat of rising sun
A History of Japan. First edition
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Steep rise in foreign students forecast
About a quarter of all students in UK higher education may be from overseas by 2025 - double the current proportion, the British Council has predicted. The change could force institutions to rethink...
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Materials and systems for optical data storage and processing: concerted European research action (COST)
Brussels, 18 March 2002 European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST Secretariat. Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research...
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Preparation Research Council, 11 March 2002
Brussels, 7 March 2002 (Andrea Dahmen) The research ministers of the European Union will meet on Monday, 11 March 2002, from 10h00 in Brussels under the presidency of Ana MarÃa Birulés y Bertrán,...
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Letter: Bribes and grooming
Tom Wilson's objective of "raising the status of teaching" is as admirable an aim as his strategy - support for the Institute for Learning and Teaching - is obtuse (Letters, THES , June 8). His...
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Ordinary guy with surprise element
When Howard Davies, chairman of the FSA, decided to take up the post of director of the LSE, the City was 'stunned' but, then again, this regular bloke often has that effect, says Terry Philpot...
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Today's news
Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...