Growth strategies
The data show that power is moving eastwards, says Phil?Baty, and the 探花视频 Asia University Rankings 2014 map this shifting R&D environment. By Western standards, the scale and...
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Steps to meet the huge increase in foreign students
The THES report (June 23) on the economic benefits of international students based on the recently published Committe of Vice Chancellors and Principals report comes at a time when more attention is...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Information technologies (ESPRIT) Contact: email: esprit@dg13.cec.be Open call: Research proposals in domains 1,2,6 and 8....
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Glen coup
Scotland's red deer are threatenedby a Japanese breed, Juliet Vickery reports. We have, as a nation, broadly welcomed Japanese investment in Britain but there is a growing feeling that one such...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL DEng: Ronald Hobbs, former director, Ove Arup and Partners, chairman of the university's buildings committee; John Taylor, head of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and visiting...
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The knowledge monopoly
Peruvian Francisco Sagasti appeals to scientists for a little more equality in the global order of knowledge When Francisco Sagasti addressed this year's opening session of the annual meeting of the...
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Cambodians find fault with French assault
Some 250 Cambodian students demonstrated and burned tyres last week in protest at the use of French as the teaching medium at Phnom Penh's Institute of Technology. Student leaders said the protest...
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Unseasonal greetings
The Sea Surface and Global Change - The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem - El Ni?o and the Peruvian Anchovy Fishery - Currents of Change
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Return of the natives
Lions, buffalos, elephants, rhinos and leopards - the "big five" as they are known in conservation circles - could once again prosper on the game parks of Mozambique if a major research contract...
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The Moor's perpetual sigh
Enigmas and Arrivals - Extravagant Strangers
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How to transmit the AIDS story
How to mount a public information exercise like the HIV and AIDS campaign with a "disappearing public" is a central theme of "Transmission '96" at Salford University later this year. The arrival of...
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The colour purpose
Race - The Meaning of Race
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Warwick leads as others follow
Universities are rushing to copy Warwick University's prestigious Pounds 10 million research fellowship scheme, launched last year to attract 50 top scholars. Among its imitators are old universities...
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Red shift favours the East
The 100 Under 50 is the only 探花视频 global ranking where the Asia-Pacific region outperforms the traditionally dominant Western powerhouses of North America and Europe, a fact that...
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Putting cotton before fish
Water Quality