Tigers taken to task
Unintended Consequences - The Trouble with Tigers
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Monday: a science lecture at Stanford. Tuesday: Japan. Wednesday: Hong Kong for an honorary degree...
'Back to Japan for more engagements and a lecture on Saturday. Monday: back to the UK for funding council meetings and then off to Poland for two lectures. Today, Wednesday, is the first time I have...
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V-cs fear anti-Asian backlash
AUSTRALIAN vice-chancellors fear an anti-Asian immigration party's success in a Queensland state election could damage their overseas student recruiting drives and are trying to limit the damage. The...
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Fraunhofer Gesellschaft outlines desire to help establish ERA
Brussels, 11 April 2002 Speaking to a Brussels audience on 10 April, President of the German research organisation the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Professor Hans-Jürgen...
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Soaring Deccan, circular Baghdad
The New Cambridge History of India, Part Seven - Islamic Art and Architecture
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Shadows of days gone by
A day of total luna-see: * Records of eclipses can be found in the ancient histories of Babylon, East Asia, Europe and Arabia. * The oldest report of a total eclipse is dated July 17, 709BC. * A...
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Strong case of cultural indigestion
Food and Love
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The Trini Trinity is found on de line
The Internet
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Clothing firm taken to the cleaners
The Ivy League group of American universities has won a trademark dispute with a New Zealand company over the use of the term for a line of clothing. In January, Patent Office New Zealand ruled that...
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Dung, dancers, dilemmas
Contemporary Art in Asia
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Local option for Middlesex
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Middlesex University, which faces an estimated 40 per cent drop in students from South-east Asia, has set...
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Alliance ready to take on its rival
An international network of universities is preparing a series of special online courses largely geared at the Asian market. A meeting of the ten members of the Global University Alliance in...
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Oz wants bright foreigners to stay
Australia's federal government plans to change immigration rules to make it easier for foreign students to remain after completing their studies as part of an effort to address a growing brain drain...
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OU head leaves for challenge of Unesco's education effort
Open University vice-chancellor Sir John Daniel is to become assistant director general of Unesco, the United Nations' educational and cultural organisation, in Paris. Sir John said he was looking...