The University of London has played host to Commonwealth scholars who have gone on to illustrious careers in their home countries, writes Graeme Davies The University of London and the Association of...
Aurel Stein on the Silk Road
The Australian universities' main foreign student recruitment agency is to close its UK offices amid a slump in overseas applications to study in Australia and a sharp reduction in international...
Empire to Orient - The Orientalist
Deadline: 31/01/2003
Bristol University is bucking a national trend by setting up a new teaching and research centre for East Asian studies. The university believes that the interdisciplinary centre will play a major...
Brussels, 06 Dec 2005 On 2 December, the European Parliament hosted a meeting gathering European stakeholders on type 1 diabetes and representatives of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF...
Rethinking the Mediterranean
The Chinese who study in the UK provide a vital source of income, so, Boris Johnson hears on his visit to China, we can't afford to be complacent Ah," said the jovial Chinese don next to me, dressed...
Cambridge has moved up to second place in a new ranking of the world's top universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. But the third edition of the ranking remains dominated by US universities,...
Brussels, 10 Aug 2005 An approaching revolution in the understanding of the most basic physical laws governing the Universe will bring some 600 physicists and engineers to an intensive two-week...
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
Brussels, 15 Apr 2005 The European Union is investing 8 million euro in a new Integrated Project focused on land degradation and desertification in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America,...
Brussels, 01 Mar 2006 France, the world's fourth largest exporter of poultry, has moved to vaccinate its poultry stocks to prevent the H5N1 'bird-flu' virus spreading from the confirmed cases in the...
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