David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax The dispersed multicampus University of the South Pacific was able to harness the latest satellite technology...
Race is a political myth, argues Tukufu Zuberi, and it is time we used racial statistics to prove it The idea of a cause-and-effect relationship between race and social status emerged from...
Brussels, 16 December 2002 On December 17, the Commission will publish the first calls for proposals for the 6 th EU Research Framework Programme (FP6 2002-2006). Research centres, universities and...
British universities rely too heavily on students from Southeast Asia. They must spread their net wider to avoid risk, says Marcel van Miert THE SLUMP in student recruitment from Southeast Asia has...
AUSTRALIAN universities fear that the currency crisis in southeast Asia could hit the number of fee-paying students studying here. Evidence from their recruiting officials in Indonesia, Malaysia, the...
Keys to Prosperity
Innovation Lecture 2002 Dear Mr Wijn, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and a pleasure to address you here, in the birthplace of Dutch democracy. It is also a difficult task to intervene after...
China has just created its largest university by merging four universities in eastern Zhejiang. Zhejiang University combines the old Zhejiang University with the province's medical and agricultural...
One of the world's unsung endangered species, the river dolphin, can be saved given sufficient funds and the political will. Male pink dolphins make nocturnal forays into the small human communities...
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
A historic high-speed computer link between the Australian National University and institutions in Japan will begin operating later this month. It will be the first time that an Australian academic...
George Soros is giving hope to refugees from an oppressive regime. Maureen Aung-Thwin discusses the aims of the philanthropist. People are intrigued that the foundation network created by Hungarian-...
Ethnomusicologists are looking to the future as much as to the past in exploring diverse musical traditions, says Michael Church. Cometh the hour, cometh the man: the fact that we know so much about...
Small, focused efforts will deliver success in net-based learning, says Roger Waterhouse Everyone knows of the huge potential for e-learning. In a short space of time, the internet could...
The first students to enrol at Britain's new e-university will probably be using traditional distance-learning materials, the funding council has said. The e-university was launched last week by...