Brussels, 10 October 2005 The EU Competitiveness Council will meet in Luxembourg on Tuesday 11th October at 10.00 under the chairmanship of, the Alan Johnson, United Kingdom Secretary of State for...
The Medical Research Council is keen to invest in innovators willing to take risks, Colin Blakemore tells Anna Fazackerley, but he advises all young researchers to consider a career strategy Colin...
A researcher working on a global health issue at a top institution on a five-year contract should feel secure. But Ruth Harvey, who is investigating avian flu, tells Anna Fazackerley that the...
Tuberculosis is no long-gone scourge but a deadly modern-day disease that is increasingly resistant to treatment. Anna Fazackerley meets a woman seeking new ways to attack the bacterium that causes...
South Asian Popular Culture
Goa and the Great Mughal
Richard Crook has been named the first Anyaoku chair of Commonwealth studies at London University. It is hoped that the post will revitalise the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. The ICS came near...
Empires of the Word
Pre-clinical studies of a cheap and powerful new cure for malaria are about to begin. Scientists have designed and synthesised a chemical that is easy to make and can wipe out the parasite...
Pablo Neruda
JAPAN. As the learning market looks set to go global, Times Higher writers check out how rogues are weeded out worldwide Japan has the second-largest higher education system in the world, with more...
Brussels, 17th November 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the European Commission and welcome to the first Innovation Day organised by DG Competition. I am pleased to see so many of you here...
Martin Ince dissects the data to identify centres of science-based excellence Big US institutions with strong industrial connections are in pole position in our table of the world's top universities...
Medical research 'stifled by rules' A "catastrophic" increase in bureaucracy from new European regulations has slowed the pace of medical research in the UK and will make academics reliant on funding...
Brussels, 14 June 2005 What is GÉANT for? Europe is home to the largest and most diverse group of academic and scientific researchers in the world. Collectively they produce terabytes of...