Washington, 31 October 2006 Full Report Powerful tools for tackling many basic problems in sub-Saharan Africa -- namely hunger, malnutrition, and rural poverty -- could literally spring from the...
Shiraz Maher, a former member of the radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir, says universities have been wilfully blind to extremist groups recruiting on campus, where they enjoy freedom to operate away from...
Liverpool University is close to finalising a deal to build the last foreign campus in China for the foreseeable future. The venture, expected to get the go-ahead next year, involves a unique...
Brussels, 23 May 2006 The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has outlined its views on how a European Institute of Technology (EIT) should look, having previously objected to elements of...
Archaeologists from Siena University and botanists from the University of Milan aim to reconstruct the DNA of the vines that the Etruscans and their ancestors used to make wine. The project is...
American Power in the 21st Century - The United States and the Great Powers
What's it about? This conference will take an inventive look at invention in the Middle Ages, between 500 and 1500. This can include technological advances, but also the invention of literary forms...
Munich, 11 May 2006 Almost 400 visitors gathered at the spectacular Autoworld Museum in Bussels on 3 May to see EPO President Alain Pompidou and European Commission Vice President Günter...
Japanese institutions are getting the chance to work with Microsoft, but they have questions to answer before they can claim prizes, says Charles Jannuzi Microsoft spends billions of dollars on...
Art schools in the Asia-Pacific region are offering lecturers unlimited prospects and a better quality of life. British schools should watch out. Martyn Bull reports. Art and design higher education...
The Monster at Our Door
Angkor - Before and After
Brussels, 12 January 2006 Following exchanges that lasted for six months, negotiations on the Republic of Korea’s participation in Europe’s satellite radionavigation programme...
Omar Sheikh, who is awaiting execution in Pakistan for the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, studied at the London School of Economics in the 1990s. He grew up in London and was known as a...
Higher Education in China