Australian v-cs sign French exchange deal
Committees representing Australian and French vice-chancellors have signed a formal agreement on co-operation involving staff and student exchanges, research collaboration and mutual recognition of...
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Boost for minority languages in Europe The United Kingdom today ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which aims to promote their use in public life. Millions of...
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Odyssey of an Asian auteur
Lester James Peries
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A global crisis we can't turn our backs on
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...
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Strong China good for globe
Harvard professors Erza Vogel and William Kirby used Beijing University's centennial celebrations as a platform to urge far greater expansion of Sino-US contacts in wide-ranging areas to resolve...
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Search for words of dead pots' society
Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European
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Held hostage by history
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...
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Beautiful sounds from foul singers
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...
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Today's news
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...
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Australia sees tech future with India
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...
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Can UK make a great leap in knowledge?
Claire Sanders looks at why Chinese studies is struggling in the UK when China is booming. Oxford University's appointment of Cornell professor Vivienne Shue as its first professor of contemporary...
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Euro challenge to US
The Euro could displace the dollar as the major international currency outside the United States and Asia if financial markets integrate rapidly enough, researchers say. Economists Richard Portes of...
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Philippe Busquin: The European Union and the Research and Development Gap, Innovation Lecture 2002 Den Haag, 9 December 2002
Innovation Lecture 2002 Dear Mr Wijn, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and a pleasure to address you here, in the birthplace of Dutch democracy. It is also a difficult task to intervene after...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: 11.4 per cent of the student population came from overseas to study in the United Kingdom compared with 10.4 per cent in 1994...
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Don's diary: watch that cow
Friday An early start for Chennai, via Newcastle, Heathrow and Dubai. I am spending a week in southern India on behalf of the Sterling Group, an informal aggregate of 23 UK engineering departments...