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ART AND DESIGN- Building St. Paul'sBy James W. P. Campbell, fellow in architecture and history of art at Queens' College, CambridgeThames and Hudson, £12.95. ISBN 9780500342442Campbell tells the...
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Global developments mean Anglophone insularity needs to be tackled
Galina Yemelianova , a Russian specialist in Arabic and Islamic studies at Birmingham University, may speak six languages but she cannot persuade her children to follow her example. "I try to get...
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Getting developing countries connected - EU-funded 6DISS project
Brussels, 31 October 2006 Partners in 6DISS, an EU funded project, are helping developing countries to get ready for the next generation of the internet: IPv6. IPv6 may mean little or nothing to the...
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New venture reaches out to Eastern Europe
It is more than 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet empire, but the need to understand developments in Central and Eastern Europe remains. The Centre for East European Language Based Area...
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EGEE becomes world largest scientific grid
Brussels, 04 Oct 2006 The EU funded 'enabling Grids for e-science' (EGEE) project is processing more than 30,000 computing jobs a day - over a million a month - making it the world's largest...
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Iron rice bowl left behind in race to market
China's Economic Transformation. Second Edition
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Watch out for the new Asian tigers
China and India have moved on from producing over-examined students who lack creativity. Not so the UK, says Maria Misra. While French students take once more to the barricades, the British reach for...
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After the gold rush
Ireland's economic boom brought equally impressive growth in higher education enrolment. But in a chillier fiscal climate, what awaits the Celtic Tiger's universities? Hannah Fearn reports
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Images of the edge of survival
Tribal Asia
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Rich pickings for the hawks
Henry R. Luce, Time and the American Crusade in Asia
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Rewards for the well-resourced
The deep pockets of many US institutions, and a select few in the UK, attest to the high cost of attaining success in the sciences.
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Leader: Bologna means continental shift in UK thinking
British universities have long taken a simple view of the Bologna Agreement. For once, they think, continental Europe has realised the superiority of the British approach and has changed its ways to...
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Public enemy number one
Governments are ill prepared for a global bird flu pandemic and are doing nothing to ensure that the people of the rich world do not abandon those of the poor to die - as some experts fear. Becky...
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Fashion victims
Students and employers are increasingly dictating the courses that universities offer, as witnessed by the rise of business-related and TV-inspired subjects such as forensic science. But how far...
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Diggers and the mappers mapped
The Discovery of Ancient India