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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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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Diggers and the mappers mapped
The Discovery of Ancient India
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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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American lack of foreign knowledge 'dangerous'
A new report shows that US students' knowledge of other nations is "weak and increasingly dangerous" and urges more international educational and foreign-language requirements in lower grades and in...
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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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Besieged staff attack 'bullying' closure plans
A senior academic at Cambridge University has claimed staff were "bullied, demeaned and lied to" during a review of their department, writes Rebecca Attwood. Members of the faculty of Oriental...
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A global calamity the world forgot
The flu pandemic of 1918-19 claimed at least 50 million lives, yet only recently has its devastation and aftermath been studied. Guy Beiner examines a strange case of worldwide amnesia In 1918 and...
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Commission's 20 October update on avian influenza
Brussels, 24 October 2006 Full text of Document 14307/06 Suite of documents 14307/06 Brussels, 23 October NOTE from Commission to Council Subject: Written Information from the Commission on Avian...
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Many small wars that made a global conflict
Fateful Choices
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OU goes for global presence
The Open University is seeking to become a global online university by building new partnerships at home and abroad. In a major document called OU Futures , the university, which already has 40,000...
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Avian influenza: expectations surpassed as international community pledges US$1.9 bn in Beijing (plus links to other Rapid items)
Brussels, 18 January 2006 The international community has pledged a total amount of $1.9 billion dollars to fight avian influenza and prepare for a possible human influenza pandemic, EU Health and...
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Shiny happy people
Men and women have used cosmetics to beautify themselves since Neolithic times. But now, as Virginia Smith outlines, the production and sale of body-care products is a high-tech global business Local...
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Who do they think we are?
What does 'Britishness' mean to people living in former colonies and to migrants newly arrived in the UK? Vron Ware decided to find out. The concept of national identity is in crisis. Despite Gordon...
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Staking claims on the landscape
Nature in the Global South