SciDev.Net

An influential lecture on the cultural significance of science remains as relevant today as when it was delivered 50 years ago.

With higher education returning to the aid agenda, SciDev.Net examines the successes, challenges and lessons to be learnt.

Commodity price rises are no substitute for long-term investment in infrastructure and capacity as a means of securing sustained development.

The tasks facing Egypt as it strives to engage with both the opportunities and threats of globalisation — particularly by modernising its approach to science and technology — epitomise the challenge facing many Muslim countries.