Neanderthal still walks among us
Mapping Human History
Mapping Human History
Following a huge increase in the number of foreign students seeking to enrol in Australian education institutions, the federal government last week adopted tighter visa regulations. During the past...
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. Nigeria's 500,000 students are struggling...
Globalization in World History
Vitamin pills are a waste of money Vitamin pills are a waste of money and have no effect in combating disease, cancer or any other illness, while wider use of cholesterol-lowering drugs would reduce...
Brussels, 11 February 2002 An international organisation is to be set up later this year to assist governments and health researchers in the developing world to negotiate better deals for drug access...
As the EUA conference gets under way in Bristol, David Jobbins reports on European integration Europe is rarely high on the agenda for British universities but 2003 is the exception. It is the crunch...
Globalisation and its Discontents
IgNobel Prizes
Brussels, 13 Nov 2002 The European DataGrid (EDG) project, which promises scientists unprecedented computing power to tackle major challenges, such as modelling climate change or analysing genomic...
Inventors get more cash to plug brain drain Nesta, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has been given a grant of ?95 million by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport....
Compared with the carnage in New York, it was a small act of terrorism. Dayan Dawood, rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, was heading back from the campus through the centre of town in...
Brown cloud threatens Asia and Europe A team of international climatologists led by Nobel laureate Professor Paul Grutzen has said they have identified the 'Asian brown cloud' -- a 10 million square...
Art deco infused fantasy and vitality into everything from music, fashion and product design to decorative arts, Hollywood films and city skylines across the globe. Ghislaine Wood reports. Art deco...
Buddhism