From today's UK Papers
Students sue Oxfordshire college for 拢100K damages A group of students has been cleared to sue Rycotewood College for damages after a judge ruled they had been denied the practical experience needed...
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Romano Prodi: Erasmus World Press Conference, Brussels, 17 July 2002
Brussels, 17 July 2002 Today the Commission adopted Erasmus World on a proposal from Viviane. There is a simple philosophy behind the project: "By opening our universities to the world, we open them...
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Letter: Just intervention
Tzvetan Todorov ("A case of right over might", THES February 9) makes an interesting contribution to the debate on humanitarian intervention but some points should be made in response. Todorov's...
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Today's news
Blue-chip talent to help poor schools Britain鈥檚 brightest graduates are to be invited to spend two years鈥 鈥渘ational service鈥 teaching in London鈥檚 roughest schools before heading off to lucrative jobs...
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We don't lack skill -just political will
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
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We don't lack skill -just political will
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
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Educated guess about social gain
Education and Development
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World Wide Web Consortium Approves Patent Policy - W3C Members, Director Establish Policy for Encouraging Royalty-Free Web Standards
http://www.w3.org/ -- 21 May 2003 Today, the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) announced approval of the W3C Patent Policy , based on widespread Member endorsement, agreement in the W3C Patent Policy...
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Tribal hostilities eclipse
Before Taliban - The Pathan Unarmed
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Helping the world to breathe more easily
In the battle against climate change, good intentions are not enough. Lobbyists must become more Machiavellian. Fred Pearce reports. Know your enemy." It has been Paul Harris's motto as United States...
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Falling fortunes of the lands of the rising sun
The Great Divergence
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Serial killer halted by headlines and hype
A vaccine for Sars may still be a long way off but, says Anna Fazackerley, the spread of the virus has been slowed by coverage in the press It might seem a classic media scare. A new and deadly...
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Germans skip UK for Australia
British universities are losing foreign students to their Australian counterparts as Germans choose increasingly to go Down Under to study, improve their English and get a suntan into the bargain....
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Iron fists in velvet gloves
Progress and tradition could go hand in hand in China but only if reformists will let them, Wang Gungwu argues. The Indian regional elections went well for the Congress Party in November, but perhaps...
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Germans bid to rebuild Kabul
Kabul University is beginning the difficult task of rebuilding after being destroyed, literally and figuratively, by decades of war, despite a lack of basic infrastructure, including water,...