Beijing takes the software pearl in Macau's crown
Next month, China extends its borders and gains the world-class software institute where Jonathan Bowen has just spent the summer Macau is only an hour's hydrofoil ride from Hong Kong across the...
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V-cs join forces against copyright
MELBOURNE Digital copyright legislation introduced to the Australian Parliament could bankrupt many education institutions and cripple Australia's information openness, according to the Australian...
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Hard decisions ahead on the road to success
Excitement and uncertainty characterise the post-16 sector of education as the consultation period on the Learning to Succeed white paper ends. Some decisions are now being made. The Learning and...
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Fierce competition in the virtual, global game
The United Kingdom must not let the fast-moving providers in the world information market get too far ahead, says Michael Thorne The Foresight programme of the Office of Science and Technology aims...
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Why I think archaeologists should fight the pseudo-science of the Atlantis myth
Ken Feder Professor of anthropology Central Connecticut State University United States There are advantages and disadvantages to teaching in a discipline such as archaeology, which enjoys popular...
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Brits slow to ease access
PARIS Growing numbers of people in developed countries are entering tertiary education but the gap is not shrinking between different social groups' access to it, a study by the Paris-based...
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Historical decline
History is faltering, but universities must not allow it to become too insular, argues J. M. Roberts Twenty-five years of teaching history at Oxford as a college tutor and supervising a few graduate...
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Lessons in the lab and the lobby
Today's scientists need a training regime that takes in politics, lobbying and a spell at Westminster, says Ian Gibson It has been a good week for science. The evidence scrutinised by a European...
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Cutting edge
The Mediterranean is rich with underwater sites revealing our past, but laws are needed to stop them being plundered 'We stumbled on the remains of a ship that showed these huge earthenware vessels...
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Italy confronts funding furore
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers According...
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Trial Aids vaccine works on monkeys
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers The...
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Medicine comes a poor second to physics
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers The...
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Courting business is key to progress
Research chief Luciano Criscuoli tells Paul Bompard the government is encouraging the private sector to help fund more research projects After almost 20 years at the Ministry for Universities and...
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St Francis's basilica made to rise from earthquake ruins
Restorers save frescoes by injecting walls with a quake-proof resin that will last to the next millennium On September 26 1997, a violent earthquake rocked central Italy. In the hilltop town of...
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Welsh see a merger turf war looming
Up to eight higher education institutions could be forced to close under plans put to the Welsh Assembly by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. The plans could ignite debate over...