Exploring pathways in the east
THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...
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New life in e-books
Academics cannot get their books published. Is electronic publishing the answer? asks Robert Darnton Are scholarly monographs -learned treatises on specific subjects - in danger of extinction,...
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Moscow centre for British skills
Links between universities in Britain and the countries of the former Soviet Union are to be boosted through a Pounds 4.5 million project over three years designed to cement key educational and...
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Across the social-ecological divide
Linking Social and Ecological Systems
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Clean air, hazy vision
Smog Alert
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Prayers for today
Journal of Contemporary Religion (three times a year)
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Family fortunes of Bronze Age mint
The East in the West
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Why it's sayonara, Japan
Trisha Walker looks at why more and more Japanese students are choosing to study abroad Although the Japanese have been going abroad to study since the first century AD, it is only since the mid-...
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Boris's brutal little war
Chechnya
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Upholders of the five K's
Sikhism
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High hopes dashed at Summit
Summit II - Earth Climate
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Tubercular alarm bells
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. The growing scourge of tuberculosis, could be eliminated worldwide if doctors and governments were to act...
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Findings from the AAAS
Julia Hinde reports from the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California Gum disease linked to premature births US scientists have provided what may be...
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Get the CVs right first, EU trainers told
The European Union must guard against being over-ambitious in its plans to help reform vocational education and training in the former Eastern bloc. The warning came from Anne Jones, professor of...
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Pacific ocean link fails
An optic fibre cable that carries Australia's burgeoning Internet traffic across the Pacific Ocean failed for the first time last month - five kilometres below the surface of the sea and 2,000...