Robust Nile fish to aid sick salmon
The observation by fish farmers that some fish families are more resistant to disease than others is to be exploited by researchers at Stirling University. Randolph Richards, John Sargent and Brendan...
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World's Largest Switchboard for Climate Monitoring
Paris, 26 February 2002 Europe's showpiece in climate monitoring is called Envisat. Fully equipped, the largest, most complex, and most powerful Earth observation satellite of the European Space...
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Latino lingo is the ploy to win Spanish ayes
Bush and Gore spoke Spanish to woo the US's largest immigrant community. Clare Mar-Molinero explains why. Something is happening to Spanish. The number of people speaking it is growing and, more...
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Prophets of doom rise for an encore
Late Antiquity
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India ignored
How can Peter Harris (World View, É«ºÐÖ±²¥S April 14) talk of Asia without showing a trace of awareness of the Indian subcontinent? A consideration of the variety of Indian attitudes to democracy, for...
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White man who speaks in many dark tongues
Nottingham-born Bob Dixon speaks five Aboriginal languages - just 245 to go. Julia Hinde reports There were probably 250 separate languages - each as different as French and German," explains Bob...
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Copy cuts
Agitation about plagiarism is getting through to students. As Shaun Breslin, acting director of Newcastle University's East Asia centre, finished a distinctly lively paper on the future of China at...
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Look who's over here
Over a fifth of postgraduates are overseas students. Mark Nye looks at the attractions of studying in the United Kingdom É«ºÐÖ±²¥ SCRAMBLE for a university place for Michaelmas entry is in full swing but...
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From bush lush to OAP from hell
The Most Offending Soul Alive
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The hard way: two young students who did not follow the
'Some of the other students looked down on me for having a BTEC rather than A A levels' Calling up the admissions tutor and demanding a place on his course might seem an unusual way of getting into...
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Surviving the free market
Vietnam's universities are seizing the opportunities autonomy is giving them. Do Thui Thinh and John Morgan report on a recent workshop Higher education reform is crucial to the economic and social...
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Aussies mug up on European law
The University of New South Wales in Australia has established the first centre for the study of European law outside Europe and the United States. The European Law Centre will provide an Asian-...
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Herzog calls for radical reforms
German president Roman Herzog has delivered a harsh message to the country's universities: "You are no longer good enough or fast enough." In a hard-hitting speech in Berlin he said "the best heads...
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A valuable source, bar the odd dig
A Dictionary of Archaeology
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English in alien attack
Radhakrishnan Nayar (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, June ) seems rather upset by Arundhati Roy, Ian Jack and Salman Rushdie because he suspects that English is an alien medium, and therefore quite incapable of representing...