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Conferences are targeted by illegal immigrant gangs
Academic conference organisers are being warned that they risk being targeted by international gangs who traffic in illegal immigrants. David Bustard, head of Ulster University's School of...
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Second tongue causes strife
Students in East Timor are finding their country's second official language tough to learn because there are so few opportunities to practice. After voting for independence from Indonesia in...
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Statistical myths give lie to white-paper policy
The government hasn't noticed, but access is expanding, and the case for fees is unsound, argues Tim Curtin As the period for consultation on the government's higher education white paper ends, two...
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The sound of thunder
The Spectre of Comparisons
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Commission publishes action plan for achieving three per cent objective
Brussels, 30 Apr 2003 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin presented on 29 April a new action plan containing a number of measures aimed at helping the EU to meet the three per cent target by...
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Wild vistas that come in bulk
Wilderness
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From first bud, drug ban was a real hash
International treaties to curb cannabis trade and use have been built on the foundations of shaky science and imperial politics, writes James Mills. As British doctors prepare to prescribe a new...
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Today's news
Cost of university fees is 'two pints of beer a week' Graduates starting off on a salary of ?18,000 a year in London would only have to give up two pints of beer a week to repay their top-up fees,...
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Why I agreed to become chairman of Leeds United
"Now that you are spending more time in Leeds you need to get some exercise." "Fine, I'll spend more time at the football club." Such Sunday morning banter with my wife eventually led me to become...
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New hybrids grown from very old roots
Postcolonial Plays
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Exchange network for Indian Ocean area
A new international academic and student exchange network has been established by 19 countries whose shores are washed by the Indian Ocean. University and government representatives from the nations...
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EU Fulbright plan nets ?125m
The European Commission has decided to invest €200 million (?125 million) more in a European equivalent of the Fulbright programme. Erasmus World will open universities in the European Union to...
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The rich, the poor, the thick and thin
Globetrotting Saskia Sassen tells Huw Richards of globalisation's nuances, while Henry Etzkowitz sketches the entrepreneurial university for Walter Ellis. If a computer program were asked to isolate...
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Spin out company founder says thank you to EU and ESA
Brussels, 18 July 2002 At the launch of a new space incubator network, ESINET, in Brussels on 17 July, Tony Anson from Brunel University in the UK outlined how funding from the EU, the European space...