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THE ANNUAL conference of the European University Association (EUA) has debated how rankings systems need to become more sophisticated benchmarks as the higher education system worldwide becomes more internationalised.

Speaking to University World News after last week’s event in Ghent, Belgium, Ms Lesley Wilson, the EUA’s Secretary General, said that while “everyone has a different view” about rankings, they need to deliver sophisticated benchmarking systems with which institutions will be able to compare themselves against other learning bodies.…

A REGULATION aimed at ensuring the rollout of broadband networks across the European Union (EU) is achieved more cheaply and swiftly has been proposed by the European Commission. It tries to force member states to ensure new buildings are broadband ready, while telling incumbent telcos to give access to their physical networks to broadband service providers.…

Money laundering takes place in the arts world and much of it at auctions, only the arts world doesn’t like to talk about it much. And anti-money laundering (AML) experts understand the methods used. At a Paris conference held last February (2012) by the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (the French national union of antique dealers) the director of the l’Institut de Criminologie de Paris, Philippe Conte, explained how launderers would put a work up for auction, to be bought by an accomplice in cash using dirty money.…

A STEEP rise and then within a few years an equally steep fall in the exports of goat meat from India has exposed failings within the country’s supply chain, say industry experts. According to Mansoor Nadeem Lari, managing director of Abdullah Fresh Foods in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, a recent 500% collapse in the Indian goat meat exports has been sparked by rising domestic prices.…

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has recommended that its rich country members harmonise their clinical trials rules, to promote international collaboration and help streamline regulations. It has issued principles for trial rules it wants adopted by its 34 member governments, which include many European Union countries, the USA, Canada, Australia and Mexico.…

IF there is one crime condemned worldwide it is the sale and smuggling of counterfeit medicines. Sometimes close copies and sometimes dangerous substances – this crime kills on a grand scale.

Counting the number of its victims accurately is difficult, because of the subversive nature of the trade, but some think-tanks have tried.…

INCREASED competition and a weakened global economy have not dimmed expectations for Vietnam-based knitwear exporters, with two major trade deals looming, able to guarantee duty free exports to the US and the European Union (EU). They will also remove non-tariff barriers impeding trade, boosting optimism amongst established exporters of quality Vietnam-made knitwear.…

AMERICA’S Save Our Industries Act, also known as the SAVE Act, which would give a range of Philippines-made apparel duty-free access to the US, looks increasingly likely to be implemented. And the Filipino clothing and textile sector is happy. The bill, first introduced to the US Congress in 2009, is to be re-introduced to Congress this month for the third time.…

PART 1 – THE RAPID EVOLUTION OF MULTI-CHANNEL

The apparel retail world has been altered profoundly by technology over the last few years, and the fashion industry knows that to succeed marketing and sales must be undertaken though the many new channels that are now available. …

AUSTRALIA is set to become the world’s second largest exporter of raw cotton, with exports to jump by 11% to a record 1.1 million tonnes in the year ending July 2013, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) has predicted.…