Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued its annual World Investment Report (WIR) on 29 September. WIR 2005 includes UNCTAD's first-ever survey on...
If drizzly old Blighty is getting you down, get networking and do your homework on research hot spots. But don't plan for a one-way overseas trip - you may want to come home, says Harriet Swain...
Oxford and Cambridge join elite research alliance Oxford and Cambridge have joined a global group of 10 elite universities to collaborate in research and to exchange staff and students. Launched in...
The Return of the White Plague
Brussels, 14 July 2005 The EU’s Council of Finance ministers are meeting in Brussels on 15th July at 10.00 a.m. for the first reading of the 2006 draft budget. At 11.00 a.m. representatives...
Joshua Ka-ho Mok has been appointed as the first head of Bristol University's Centre For East Asian Studies Joshua Ka-ho Mok will soon swap the heat of Hong Hong for winter in England when he takes...
Gannibal - The Moor of St Petersburg
Brussels, 16 September 2005 A public consultation on whether and how to create a European Institute of Technology has been opened by the European Commission today. It will gather the views of...
Brussels, 02 Feb 2005 Germany may lose more jobs in research and development (R&D) industries, as the vast majority of companies do not plan to increase research spending at home before 2008...
A History of Nepal
Latin American studies exist - except in The THES league tables. There, alongside Asia and Africa, we find a solitary America, of a distinctly Anglo hue. It is true that for the purposes of the RAE,...
Brussels, 19 May 2005 The EU's proposal for a regulation on medicines for paediatric use is expected to receive a boost under the UK's EU Presidency, which begins in July. The UK's Ministry of Health...
Brussels, 26 Jan 2005 Major players from Europe's waterborne transport sector gathered in Bremen, Germany, on 25 January to launch a new Technology Platform in the sector and to begin work on...