Applications are now open for IFS grants
Brussels, 18 July 2002 The Swedish-based International Foundation for Science (IFS) has issued a call for research grant applications from young scientists in developing countries. Access to research...
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Why I agreed to become chairman of Leeds United
"Now that you are spending more time in Leeds you need to get some exercise." "Fine, I'll spend more time at the football club." Such Sunday morning banter with my wife eventually led me to become...
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Wild vistas that come in bulk
Wilderness
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From first bud, drug ban was a real hash
International treaties to curb cannabis trade and use have been built on the foundations of shaky science and imperial politics, writes James Mills. As British doctors prepare to prescribe a new...
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Today's news
Cost of university fees is 'two pints of beer a week' Graduates starting off on a salary of ?18,000 a year in London would only have to give up two pints of beer a week to repay their top-up fees,...
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Vladivostok basks in its freedom
The insistence of the old Soviet regime that it approve any new university programmes no longer hangs heavily on a rejuvenated Far Eastern State University. President Vladimir Kurilov's Vladivostok...
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New hybrids grown from very old roots
Postcolonial Plays
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Change and omission
Foreign Policy in a Transformed World. First edition
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Salford's Sydney site
Lester Stump has one of the key jobs in preparing for the Sydney Olympics - largely thanks to a University of Salford online masters degree in construction IT. He is overseeing construction of all 35...
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Writing reaps reward
The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival
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Today's news
Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...
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The rich, the poor, the thick and thin
Globetrotting Saskia Sassen tells Huw Richards of globalisation's nuances, while Henry Etzkowitz sketches the entrepreneurial university for Walter Ellis. If a computer program were asked to isolate...
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New INNOGEN centre will help shape future science and technology policy.
Brussels, 14 Nov 2002 Experts in science, technology, economics and law will explore the impact of genomics on society, and of society on genomics, at a new centre based at the University of...
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Lifestyle lures Brits to study Down Under
The number of students leaving Britain's rainy shores to study at Australian universities has leapt by 44 per cent in the past year, new figures show. This year, 1,710 UK students opted for courses...
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Fat fingers, juicy pies and Uncle Sam's sorely embarrassing not-so little problem
The Future of Freedom