The state of California has maintained its grip on the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ engineering and technology table. As in previous years, California, the home of the high-tech business hub Silicon Valley...
The Frozen Echo - The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
16 September 2010 Phil Baty reviews the sharper, deeper insights revealed by our new and more rigorous world rankings Reports of the death of US higher education appear to have been greatly...
16 September 2010 Phil Baty reviews the sharper, deeper insights revealed by our new and more rigorous world rankings Reports of the death of US higher education appear to have been greatly...
A scientist Christian, a retail management expert, a Jew and a Muslim tell The THES what Christmas means to them JOHN POLKINGHORNE, recently retired as president of Queens' College, Cambridge. His...
Women, Culture and Development - Mortgaging Women's Lives
Anne Pakir explains that high global standing is a necessary but not sufficient aspect of the National University of Singapore’s team-ups “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got...
As the World Food Summit opens in Rome, Laura Kelly shows how hunger is an increasing menace for many just as global food production is stagnating, and Vittoria D'Alessio asks food experts what is...
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Standards, measurements & testing Contacts: Philippe Quevauviller. Fax: +32-2-295.80.72 Open call for accompanying...
The discovery of my own weakness was the first symptom of taste" - Edward Gibbon's words must spring to mind when anyone is courageous enough to speak about the relationship of the universal and the...
Mental Leaps
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....
Left and Right
ARCHITECTURE. Bradley, Simon, and Nikolaus Pevsner London: The city churches (The Buildings of London, vol 1) Penguin. 160pp, illus. Pounds 9.99 (paperback). 0 14 071100 7. 25/6/98 Schildt, Goran;...
A spate of high-profile expedition disasters has unleashed a wave of rule-tightening across campuses and is endangering the future of a brave tradition. Aisling Irwin reports They were four blithe...