Brussels, 17 July 2002 Today the Commission adopted Erasmus World on a proposal from Viviane. There is a simple philosophy behind the project: "By opening our universities to the world, we open them...
Blue-chip talent to help poor schools Britain’s brightest graduates are to be invited to spend two years’ “national service” teaching in London’s roughest schools before heading off to lucrative jobs...
Progress and tradition could go hand in hand in China but only if reformists will let them, Wang Gungwu argues. The Indian regional elections went well for the Congress Party in November, but perhaps...
Education and Development
With 97 million people expected in higher education by 2010, universities worldwide are moving into South America, China and the Gulf in an attempt to bag the new recruits first, says Tony Tysome...
The Great Divergence
In the battle against climate change, good intentions are not enough. Lobbyists must become more Machiavellian. Fred Pearce reports. Know your enemy." It has been Paul Harris's motto as United States...
British universities are losing foreign students to their Australian counterparts as Germans choose increasingly to go Down Under to study, improve their English and get a suntan into the bargain....
THENUMBER of young Australians working and studying in the Asia-Pacific region will rise significantly if initiatives gaining support are successful. Powerful voices have spoken out over the past...
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
Tatarstan, a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, is preparing to switch the script used for the Tatar language from Cyrillic to the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet. Next month,...
Financial Times Bristol and Bath are to be the first universities in the UK to form a joint venture science park. Stefan Wagstyl says that Akademgorodok, the campus town housing Russia's scientific...
Kabul University is beginning the difficult task of rebuilding after being destroyed, literally and figuratively, by decades of war, despite a lack of basic infrastructure, including water,...
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