Crouching tigers ready to pounce
Yale boss welcomes 'audacious' ambitions of emerging Asian nations. Phil Baty reports
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An inappropriate model
Adjust for population, GDP and funding, and US dominance disappears, Howard Hotson argues. And so does the case for neoliberal university reform
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Scandal of sonic abuse
One man's music is so often another man's noise, laments Malcolm Gillies
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Brunel's academic griot will 'fight dead image of poetry'
Benjamin Zephaniah hopes to get poets performing in his first-ever university role. Jack Grove reports
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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
In the 1980s, the Brundtland Commission's report on sustainable development radically stated that the environment was important for the poor. Damage to the environment was caused by the poor, but...
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Eastern mystique
These enthralling pictures were among those showcasing the photographic talents of students in East Asian studies at the University of Leeds. More than 250 entries to the "Eye on Asia" photographic...
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American way's benefits
Times Higher Education cites Barack Obama's praise for Singapore's higher education system, which places an emphasis on science and technology rather than the liberal arts ("World crisis in...
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Reforms: so far, so good
The Australian 'education revolution' is making progress, although there are still challenges to be overcome, writes Peter Coaldrake
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The Great War and the Making of the Modern World
In an important new book that richly analyses the causes, course and consequences of the First World War, Jeremy Black asks why it remains the "most misunderstood major conflict in history". He draws...
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School of Oriental and African Studies - Old world meets new
The world's most comprehensive visual record of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas has gone online. More than 10,000 rare images are now available to researchers and the general public...
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Raymond Allchin, 1923-2010
The leading British expert on Indian archaeology, whose interests embraced much of the culture and history of South Asia, has died.Raymond Allchin was born in Harrow on 9 July 1923 and educated at...
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Imperial echoes
'Internationalisation' is the trend du jour for universities, but they would do well to consider its earlier manifestation during the British Empire's long 19th century. As Tamson Pietsch explains,...
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Appointments
University of Edinburgh, Greg WalkerThe Regius chair of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh will be filled by Greg Walker, who was been Masson professor of English at the...
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From where I sit - A hub of global ambition
Several factors have helped Kazakhstan grow rapidly in the two decades that it has been an independent country, among them abundant natural resources and proximity to large markets in Europe and Asia...
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Trinity College Dublin - É«ºÐÖ±²¥ and away
Olga Wojtas on Trinity College's cultural outreach work in Dublin, globally relevant postgraduate programmes and historic links with South Asia