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Brown promises billions to science Gordon Brown will make science and engineering the centrepiece of this summer’s spending round, announcing a policy review in the Budget to identify investment...
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Latest research news
Brown promises billions to science Gordon Brown will make science and engineering the centrepiece of this summer’s spending round, announcing a policy review in the Budget to identify investment...
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Alan Ryan
When you run a great research university, you also run risks - as Harvard University has found to its cost. Elite but cash-strapped universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, University College London...
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Sci-fi competition about to be judged
Paris, 18 Apr 2003 Altogether 120 entries from all over the globe have been received for the science fiction story-writing competition announced by ESA last November. The Clarke-Bradbury...
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Accelerated circumpolar climate change has global impact, says international scientific assessment
Brussels, 12 Oct 2004 The arctic climate is changing rapidly - more rapidly than the global average - with worldwide implications, an international gathering of science journalists was told on 5...
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Do not poach talent from devastated territory
Coaxing the brightest young people away from Sri Lanka, as some rich countries do, will prolong the nightmare left by the Indian Ocean tsunami, says David Weatherall Early on the morning of February...
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Mind the Gats, and keep doors open to everyone
Equity and quality are the buzzwords for countries hoping to profit from overseas students, says Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin Higher education is a major export industry. International student mobility...
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A look at the world through western eyes
The New Penguin History of the World
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World Education Market 2003
"Advancing the Millennium of Learning" is the theme of this year's WEM conference and exhibition (Lisbon, Portugal: May 20-23, 2003), of which The THES is a media partner. Now in its fourth year, WEM...
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Is it time for a third (world) way...?
Development economics has traditionally been skewed by a western focus but Chris Bunting reports on attempts to bring a fresh perspective to the issues Sustainable development does not often get a...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ rakes in foreign cash
More than 200,000 foreign students are expected to enrol in ߣߣÊÓƵn education institutions this year, boosting the economy by A$4.12 billion (£1.5 billion). Onshore university campuses are likely...
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Space technology races round Le Mans
Paris, 11 Jun 2004 Spaceflight engineers face three constant challenges: reducing weight and size, improving thermal insulation and increasing reliability. Progress in these fields does not just...
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One more weapon that Bush won't find
Infidels - Crescent and Cross - Sowing the Wind - Islam Under Siege
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One more weapon that Bush won't find
Infidels - Crescent and Cross - Sowing the Wind - Islam Under Siege
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The world stops with Europe
Vinita Damodaran and Richard Grove detect a worrying move towards Eurocentrism When visitors walk into the London headquarters of the British Academy the first thing they see is a fine bust of...