Asian insider's eye on a split-level society
Indonesian Destinies
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OECD: Colleges cash in on overseas students
David Jobbins looks at the UK's rise to the top of the OECD degree league The overseas student market is big business for universities across the OECD. In 1998 alone, it accounted for up to $30...
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Researchers pinpoint stronger link between climate change and cholera epidemics
Brussels, 17 Sep 2002 A team of Spanish, US and Bangladeshi researchers have shown that the relationship between climatic variation on cholera epidemics has become stronger over the past few years....
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IAA's vision for the next steps in exploring deep space
Paris, 13 Jul 2004 The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) announces the release of its cosmic study, 'The Next Steps In Exploring Deep Space', a vision for the scientific exploration of...
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Why capitalism is a very social animal
Divergent Capitalisms
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ߣߣÊÓƵn firm is first to buy a Chinese university
An ߣߣÊÓƵn information technology company has become the first foreign investor to buy a university in China and incorporate the institution into its operations. Perth-based Amnet Limited bought...
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Shipwrecks and old golf clubs in a sea of information
International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology
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Shipwrecks and old golf clubs in a sea of information
International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology
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Soeurs still to see true liberté and égalité
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women
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Project to document plant resources of tropical Africa
Brussels, 04 Oct 2002 An ambitious new project has been launched by African and European researchers to review and document existing knowledge on around 7,000 species of tropical plants. The PROTA...
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Old age and new identities
Age, Narrative and Migration
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Bid to train third world online gets A$200m
The ߣߣÊÓƵn government has committed A$200 million (£73 million) to a World Bank plan to offer education and skills training to developing countries via the internet. The scheme was launched by...
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The Rumsfeld view of comparative lit.
Death of a Discipline
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European partners help create Pakistan's Virtual University
Brussels, 12 August 2002 Academic institutions in the UK and Denmark are collaborating with Pakistani counterparts under the ASIA IT&C scheme to help create the Pakistan Virtual University (...
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Curiosity made us great, but it's waning in the West
The decline of intellectual quests and the rise of dumbing down in western universities will make the next century an eastern one, argues Charles Pasternak By the end of this century, North America...