Oz expects language shakeout
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Australia's universities may be uncertain about what Asia's financial crisis will do to overseas student...
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Australia's universities may be uncertain about what Asia's financial crisis will do to overseas student...
Nature and the Orient
When Lutz Tietze hung up his lab coat, his students presented him with a collection of recipes from the world's top organic chemists. Karen Gold found the work far from formulaic. A Buchner funnel,...
The Begums of Bhopal
Women and Islam in Bangladesh
Talk of 'miracles' in the hot house economies of the Far East is inflated, argues Gerald Segal. Indeed, these 'Tigers' may soon be having trouble paying for pensions There is something about an...
APPOINTMENTS Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences Lawrence Freedman , professor and head of the school of social science and public policy at King's College, London, has been elected...
Remaking the Landscape
Financial Times Scientists at North Carolina State University hope to develop better protective clothing by incorporating additives in the fibre rather than as a coating. French government scientists...
In the last of our series on tourism, Chris Ryan considers how academic studies of sex tourism can help sex workers gain human rights and promote responsible travelling Sex tourism as a topic of...
India Unbound
Jihad - Jihad - The Shade of Swords - Inside Al-Qaeda - The Clash of Fundamentalisms
Researchers around the world are set to announce on Monday the completion of 90 per cent of one of the most exciting projects in the history of science: the sequencing of the human genome. Costing...
The Generalissimo's Son