Copenhagen, 07 Nov 2002 Check against delivery. Statement by Mr Helge Sander Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation on behalf of the European Union Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen...
Splintering Urbanism
The Supermodern Wardrobe - Made in Britain - Dress in Detail from Around the World
Prime minister Tony Blair wants 50 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds in higher education by 2010. Yesterday, Iain Gray, Scotland's minister for enterprise, transport and lifelong learning, revealed that...
Lester James Peries
A new report has urged the Australian government to work more closely with India in the development of information technology products. The report by Australia's overseas export organisation Austrade...
Bats may be ugly and smelly but, Daniel Bennett says, they sound wonderful. Just after dusk we were on a canoe in the Mozambique Bay. Hundreds of bats were flying over the sea and the sound was...
The government and the British Council have announced details of a one-year scholarship scheme to support students affected by the Asia currency crisis. Universities and colleges have been given...
The University of East London refugee studies programme is enabling research, free from prejudice, of a growing minority in most societies, says Philip Marfleet. Refugees have become a preoccupation...
The gloves came off in higher education this week after a group of United Kingdom universities advertising themselves as elite institutions revealed plans to target the domestic market. The Sterling...
Blue-chip talent to help poor schools Britain¡¯s brightest graduates are to be invited to spend two years¡¯ ¡°national service¡± teaching in London¡¯s roughest schools before heading off to lucrative jobs...
Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European
Through the stories of captives, Linda Colley found an alternative image of the British Empire that had itself been locked away, writes Karen Gold. When the British historian Linda Colley met her...
Tatarstan, a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, is preparing to switch the script used for the Tatar language from Cyrillic to the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet. Next month,...
Tzvetan Todorov ("A case of right over might", THES February 9) makes an interesting contribution to the debate on humanitarian intervention but some points should be made in response. Todorov's...