Chinese new year
Source: Corbis Japan loses its crown to its main regional rival, as massive state funding and innovation pay dividends for the People’s Republic, writes Katie Duncan. China has overtaken Japan as...
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Common tongues
History of Linguistics, Volume One - History of Linguistics, Volume Two
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Grants
KINGS COLLEGE, LONDON Charities Dr L. C. Mahadevan, Pounds 92,150 from the Wellcome Trust (analysis of chromatin-associated signalling responses concomitant with immediate-early (IE) gene activation...
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The Moor's perpetual sigh
Enigmas and Arrivals - Extravagant Strangers
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Green thoughts
Terra Nova
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The National University of Singapore: At the nexus of East and West
6 October 2011 Like the entrepôt economy that sustains it, the National University of Singapore places a premium on cross-cultural fluency, quality and desire to make a global impact, says Tan Chorh...
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British PhDs runners up in cost league
Fees charged by United Kingdom universities for foreign students undertaking postgraduate courses tend to be higher than those of the UK's main competitors in Asia, according to an international...
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The Korean connection
Foreign investment in manufacturing industry can have a huge pay-off for British universities and research if all sides are willing to build a partnership, Yong-Doo Cho argues. The Koreans are coming...
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Open season on the child crippler
A Summer Plague
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Ideas that added muscle to the empirebuilders
Lords of All The World
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Christmas myth exploded
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDICINE Edited by Roy Porter Cambridge University Press 400pp, Pounds 24.95 ISBN - 0 521 4412117 When I was a medical student in the 1950s a distinguished...
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The brutal test of civilisation
Inhuman States
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Unseasonal greetings
The Sea Surface and Global Change - The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem - El Niño and the Peruvian Anchovy Fishery - Currents of Change
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Continental drift
Migration - Nation and Migration - Migration and Identity - Desh Pardesh
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Making strides
China has made significant progress and overtaken Japan as Asia's number one nation for world-class universities with 21 institutions in the top 100.