Brussels, Feb 2006 One way to beat viruses is to knock them out with antiviral drugs. Another is to vaccinate against them beforehand. While this may work for some, such as measles and mumps, others...
Middlesex University won the Queen's award for enterprise this week, in recognition of its recruitment of a high number of overseas students. It boosted overseas student numbers by 43 per cent...
Australia's deans of education have called on the federal Government to establish special universities to focus on training schoolteachers. In recent years, two thirds of faculties of education have...
An Australian state government has negotiated a deal to establish the country's first branch campus of an American university. South Australia's Labor Premier, Mike Rann, last week signed an...
Harvard abandons fast-track entry that favours elite Harvard University is to drop a controversial fast-track admission system for elite students in an attempt to open up America¡¯s top colleges to...
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,...
Brussels, 02 Jun 2006 The news: The fifth Community Aeronautics Days event is to take place in Vienna. With up to 1,000 participants expected, this is a key event for European research and technology...
The study of Asian languages and culture in Australia is in a "crisis" exacerbated by the Bali bomb and the withdrawal of all Australian university students and staff based in Indonesia. A report by...
Students from Hong Kong, southern China and parts of Southeast Asia have been warned not to return home for the Easter break in an effort to prevent their contracting the deadly severe acute...
From delivering lectures in Kabul to delivering pizzas in London, academic refugee Haroon Amirzada's woes did not end when he escaped the Taleban I was tortured for two years in a Taleban prison. The...
An Australian university has disputed claims that concerns over academic freedom threaten Warwick University's plans for a campus in Singapore. Warwick and the University of New South Wales were...
Damned statistics? The UK could soon be left with just 12 or so statistics departments, with dozens more condemned to serve as mere support staff for other academic fields, it was claimed this week....
Corruption in academe becomes commonplace when staff are not paid a living wage, argues Philip Altbach The Egyptian Gazette was stark in its condemnation. "University professors in Egypt have been...
Schemes are afoot to increase the mobility of researchers and to support advanced study for those in industry, says Maunu H?yrynen Few research and development staff in industry hold PhDs even though...
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...