Satellite-assisted bird preservation
Paris, 11 Mar 2005 In the forests of the Haute-Savoy region of the French Alps, a Swiss biologist forces his way through the snow-covered branches and bushes. A cameraman and a EuroNews reporter do...
Paris, 11 Mar 2005 In the forests of the Haute-Savoy region of the French Alps, a Swiss biologist forces his way through the snow-covered branches and bushes. A cameraman and a EuroNews reporter do...
ECONOMICS- When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save ThemBy Teresa Ghilarducci, Schwartz chair in economic policy and director of SCEPA, New School for Social Research....
Continental business schools are spearheading the attempt to access the lucrative market for higher education in English. Matthew Reisz reports
Iain Stevenson (Letters, THES , April 11) describes the claim that mid-20th century authors may never go out of copyright as "ridiculous", but US corporations are already lobbying for a further...
A trio of international research stars has been hired to head a new cancer research institute run by the University of Wales, Bangor. Each will lead one of three areas of cancer research brought...
Viswabharati University founded by India's pre-eminent poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, in Shantiniketan near Calcutta, has lost its copyright over his works after clinging on to them for...
Switzerland is pouring millions of francs into tackling the gender imbalance in universities. The Swiss confederation has earmarked SFr16 million (£6.5 million) for general universities and SFr10...
ZERMATT Researchers at five of Switzerland's top universities are furious that the Swiss research funding authority has refused support for an ambitious inter-university project to investigate links...
Brussels, 26 October 2006 Michael Hengartner reçoit le Prix Latsis National 2006 Michael Hengartner de l'Université de Zurich se voit décerner le Prix Latsis National 2006 pour l'importance de ses...
Brussels, 12 Sep 2005 Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, UK, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the University of Bologna, Italy, have succeed in making the first...
The editorial policies of the two most prestigious scientific journals - Nature and Science - have been criticised by scientists. Experts are asking whether competition between the two is...
Swiss university rectors are drawing up a framework for a national quality-assurance system that is likely to inform similar moves in neighbouring Austria and Germany. The Conference of University...
Cut! Cinema studies. University of Stockholm. Chemvisu. Chemistry. University of Fribourg, Switzerland. http://sgich1. unifr.ch/ CHEMvisu.html Elm-Art. Computer science.Padagogishe Hochschule...
Performance targets are spreading despite the criticism that they destroy freedom of inquiry, Phil Baty writes. "A university is not a corporation making razor blades for a price in a particular...
The duration of UK copyright was increased from 50 to 70 years not, as Chris Bunting writes ("Why should 'dead authors' descendants steal the livelihood of living writers", THES, April 4), because of...