An Australian information technology company has become the first foreign investor to buy a university in China and incorporate the institution into its operations. Perth-based Amnet Limited bought...
Infidels - Crescent and Cross - Sowing the Wind - Islam Under Siege
Infidels - Crescent and Cross - Sowing the Wind - Islam Under Siege
Brussels, 04 Oct 2002 An ambitious new project has been launched by African and European researchers to review and document existing knowledge on around 7,000 species of tropical plants. The PROTA...
International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology
International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology
An ambitious joint venture between universities from four continents has had teething problems. Geoff Maslen reports from Melbourne Nearly 18 months after its announcement as the "world's premier...
The decline of intellectual quests and the rise of dumbing down in western universities will make the next century an eastern one, argues Charles Pasternak By the end of this century, North America...
Oxford professor suspended for rejecting Israeli Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield professor of pathology at Oxford University and fellow of Pembroke College, has been suspended for two months for rejecting...
Oxford professor suspended for rejecting Israeli Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield professor of pathology at Oxford University and fellow of Pembroke College, has been suspended for two months for rejecting...
Brussels, 24 Oct 2003 Have skills, will travel - an OECD report examines how rich countries are attracting science and technology specialists from developing nations to fill gaping labour shortages....
Brussels, 24 Oct 2003 Have skills, will travel - an OECD report examines how rich countries are attracting science and technology specialists from developing nations to fill gaping labour shortages....
Orbiting debris may have brought down Columbia Nasa engineers examining the break-up of the space shuttle Columbia think a possible cause may have been the clutter of human debris in space. US air...
Empires are built for a variety of motives -a quest for wealth, an urge to dominate, a wish to impose order on haphazard conquest, even a desire to do good. But, says Hugh Thomas, they do share one...
Empires are built for a variety of motives -a quest for wealth, an urge to dominate, a wish to impose order on haphazard conquest, even a desire to do good. But, says Hugh Thomas, they do share one...