Free market will enslave us all
Humans do not develop by buying mobile phones and BMWs, argues Thai environmentalist Sulak Sivaraksa, who believes a sustainable future requires a little bit of spiritual enlightenment. Chris Bunting...
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Still want sun, sand and sex on the beach?
In the last of our series on tourism, Chris Ryan considers how academic studies of sex tourism can help sex workers gain human rights and promote responsible travelling Sex tourism as a topic of...
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Stronger links will benefit Sri Lanka
Higher education in Sri Lanka would benefit from a more systematic partnership with government, rather than the current dependence on links among individuals, the country's ambassador to France has...
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Oz wants bright foreigners to stay
Australia's federal government plans to change immigration rules to make it easier for foreign students to remain after completing their studies as part of an effort to address a growing brain drain...
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Claims on armies of the dead
The Tarim Mummies
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Trans-Pacific cable speeds up dons' debate
A new submarine trans-Pacific cable network, capable of carrying 40 gigabits a second, will soon give Australian academics faster access to colleagues in North America. The Southern Cross Cable...
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Exiled son who saved the state
The Generalissimo's Son
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Research findings
PHAROAHS AND THE FLEA The true curse of the pharaohs has been identified among remains left by Tutankhamun's tomb workers and guards - fleas. The excavation of a 3,300-year-old village in the...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Bristol and Bath are to be the first universities in the UK to form a joint venture science park. Stefan Wagstyl says that Akademgorodok, the campus town housing Russia's scientific...
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Footprints in stolen sand
When you're lying on that beach in Belize congratulating yourself that as an ecotourist you're not damaging the environment and are helping the local economy, think again, says Rosaleen Duffy. When...
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Commission calls on EU scientific and industrial communities to apply for EUR 5 billion research funding
Brussels, 16 December 2002 On December 17, the Commission will publish the first calls for proposals for the 6 th EU Research Framework Programme (FP6 2002-2006). Research centres, universities and...
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Teacher trainers think global
The first international conference for heads of teacher-training institutions has laid the foundations for setting up a worldwide teacher-training network. The three-day Paris conference, "Priorities...
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Clothing firm taken to the cleaners
The Ivy League group of American universities has won a trademark dispute with a New Zealand company over the use of the term for a line of clothing. In January, Patent Office New Zealand ruled that...
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Erasmus World: a European higher education scheme to attract more students from third countries and enable European students to study in other countries
Brussels, 17 July 2002 How can we strengthen links between our universities to improve the quality and competitiveness of our higher education? How can higher education in the European Union be made...
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Netgazette
APPOINTMENTS Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences Lawrence Freedman , professor and head of the school of social science and public policy at King's College, London, has been elected...