Where the flow goes
Students are moving about the Commonwealth more than ever, but those from poor countries are in danger of being left out. David Jobbins reports on the first full study of student mobility in seven...
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Glaxo Wellcome earmarks more for research
Pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome spent Pounds 1.15 billion on research and development in 1997, according to its annual report. The firm, which notched up global sales worth Pounds 8 billion, says...
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E-dream will only come true through teamwork
Open and distance learning is the future. David Hardy explains how Europe is overcoming the hurdles Higher education announces revolution more often than it achieves it. This is hardly surprising...
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Genetic equation doesn't add up
The Maths Gene
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Idealism trodden in rush to market?
Academic alliances are strained as rivals pile on pressure. Clashes between commerce and universities seem inevitable following a series of deals that could result in potential conflicts of interest...
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The first Asian tigers
Reorient
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How to really wake the Indian tiger
India in the Era of Economic Reforms
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Path that crosses cultures
Immigrants want their children to retain a sense of their community and to be modern, writes Wang Gungwu At a conference in Singapore on modern education in immigrant communities, we were recently...
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A space cowboy goes it alone
Seeking total security, President Bush wants the US to build a national missile shield dubbed Son of Star Wars. The result, says Christoph Bluth, will be more insecurity for all. For the past four...
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Ex-Soviet states quit science academy
The countries of Central Asia are dismantling their Soviet science structures. Last year, Turkmenistan quietly dissolved its Academy of Sciences. Now Kazakhstan plans to do the same. The Soviet...
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Taking a look at the border picture
Borders - An Ethnic History of Europe since 1945 - A History of the Balkans
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A massacre in Eden
Over millions of years the fauna and flora of North America have evolved in time with continental shifts. But these changes pale when compared with the devastating impact made by man, writes Tim...
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Loneliness of overseas students at Christmas
Loneliness is the biggest problem faced by foreign students forced to spend the Christmas holidays in this country, according to Chris Ng, international student secretary at the University of...
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Japan shy of target
Japan is unlikely to meet its target of having 100,000 foreign students in its higher education system by 2000. The number of foreign students choosing to study in Japan has started to fall after...