World's Largest Switchboard for Climate Monitoring
Paris, 26 February 2002 Europe's showpiece in climate monitoring is called Envisat. Fully equipped, the largest, most complex, and most powerful Earth observation satellite of the European Space...
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Multi-storied pasts
The Archaeology of Elam
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Industrious habits of cities past
Indus Age - Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization
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Foreign students choose Britain
The United Kingdom has emerged as one of the world's leading recruiters of students from overseas, competing most strongly with the United States and, increasingly, Australia. The three countries...
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In Everyman's footsteps
Geneticist Luca Cavalli-Sforza says there is no scientific basis for race. Now his latest project has been attacked for bigotry. Ayala Ochert reports. US President Bill Clinton was full of praise...
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Degree unity sparks friction
The move towards a common European higher education system is happening faster than many people realise, delegates to Salamanca 2001, the Convention of European Higher Education Institutions, heard...
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UK faces Gulf crash
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia British universities and colleges are bracing for a new overseas recruitment crisis - in the Gulf. As vice-...
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Strong case of cultural indigestion
Food and Love
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Cambridge ventures east
MALAYSIA is to set up a Commonwealth University near Kuala Lumpur in a joint venture with Cambridge University, writes David Jobbins. Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Adbul Razak, the Malaysian education...
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Where the flow goes
Students are moving about the Commonwealth more than ever, but those from poor countries are in danger of being left out. David Jobbins reports on the first full study of student mobility in seven...
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Asian recruitment crash is self-inflicted
British universities rely too heavily on students from Southeast Asia. They must spread their net wider to avoid risk, says Marcel van Miert THE SLUMP in student recruitment from Southeast Asia has...
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E-dream will only come true through teamwork
Open and distance learning is the future. David Hardy explains how Europe is overcoming the hurdles Higher education announces revolution more often than it achieves it. This is hardly surprising...
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Genetic equation doesn't add up
The Maths Gene
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Idealism trodden in rush to market?
Academic alliances are strained as rivals pile on pressure. Clashes between commerce and universities seem inevitable following a series of deals that could result in potential conflicts of interest...