Required reading for 1 billion students
China could be gold mine for Western publishers of learning materials, but it's not easy to enter, say Harriet Swain and Mandy Garner One day in September, 120,000 Chinese children aged between seven...
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W3C launches secure browsing initiative
Brussels, 17 October 2006 W3C Launches Secure Browsing Initiative - "Security Context" Important Step Toward Fraud Prevention (also available in French and Japanese; see also translations in other...
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WHO warns of TB with extreme drug resistance -- kills 52 of 53 AIDS patients in South Africa hospital
Brussels, 08 Sep 2006 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a stark warning - to act immediately to stop the spread of a tuberculosis strain with extreme drug resistance (XDR-TB), which has...
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Joint project a first
An Australian state government has negotiated a deal to establish the country's first branch campus of an American university. South Australia's Labor Premier, Mike Rann, last week signed an...
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Era of gentlemanly capitalism secured jewel in the crown
The Business of Empire
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Virologists hatch plan to beat bird flu
Virologists at Cambridge University have teamed up with scientists from the Roslin Institute to create genetically modified chickens that can resist the lethal H5N1 avian flu virus, writes Yfke van...
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Jobwatch: Designs on UK academics
Art schools in the Asia-Pacific region are offering lecturers unlimited prospects and a better quality of life. British schools should watch out. Martyn Bull reports. Art and design higher education...
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'With Avian flu, you need to recognise symptoms early and map out patterns'
A UK epidemiologist aims to forge new links with China and Vietnam to fight emerging infectious diseases Anne Johnson will travel to China and Vietnam this week as part of a Medical Research Council...
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Published this week
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT• Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family BusinessesBy David Landes, professor emeritus of history and economics, Harvard UniversityPenguin, £9.99. ISBN...
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EU risks brain drain if it fails to adopt new approach on innovation, Finnish State Secretary for Trade and Industry Paasivirta tells CoR Bureau
Brussels, 10 July 2006 Europe risks a “brain drain” to Asia and America unless it makes innovation a priority and invests more in education, research and business knowledge,...
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West is best but there's a rich feast in the East
Citations might sometimes be lacking, finds Martin Ince, but numerous Asian and Australian universities are well regarded by academics around the world. In terms of higher education, the rest of the...
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English speakers dominate the first 20
The English-speaking world produces most of the leading global players in the arts and humanities, according to academics in the field. All but two of the top 20 universities in the world for arts...
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A lay-by on the road to market
University-business ventures are in desperate need of an R&D rethink, says Simon Davey UK university-business collaboration has been unsuccessful for too long. The UK has an exceptionally...
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Oxbridge leaves US finest trailing
While the UK comes top in science, no nation takes a definitive lead in technology. Martin Ince reports. Cambridge and Oxford emerge as the first and second highest ranked science universities in the...
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Eaten away by the acids of modernity
The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume Eight, World Christianities c.1815-c.1914 - Volume Nine World Christianities c.1914-c.2000