First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author whose inexact anagram was to become immortal: "My dear Mark, Today...
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Backpackers are good-value tourists
Governments in less developed countries often ignore the impact of backpackers on their economies, says Mark Hampton, a development economist at the University of Portsmouth. Dr Hampton is...
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Eyewitness
Australians vote next week in a referendum to decide whether the country will cut its 210-year-old ties to the British monarchy and become a republic. Although polls show a clear majority favours a...
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The fundraising deal: we get cash, you get kudos
This week, all but one of the trade unions with substantial membership in higher education embarked on industrial action over pay. No one has apparently noticed. But two other stories hit the...
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Fiji coup tensions keep v-c job empty
Even before the University of the South Pacific suspended classes because of last month's attempted coup, racist pressure had forced it to suspend the appointment of a new vice-chancellor. In the...
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Has Europe got what it takes to be the new US?
If the European Union is to fulfil its potential as a supranational democracy, it must offer its citizens freedom, security and, most of all, respect. Dennis Smith reports. Professors and politicians...
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Where the flow goes
Students are moving about the Commonwealth more than ever, but those from poor countries are in danger of being left out. David Jobbins reports on the first full study of student mobility in seven...
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Has mother nature been outwitted?
Continuing our series of Big Science Questions, Mark Buchanan asks if we are in a post-evolutionary age, and Michael Ruse looks at our role in change. It is tempting to suppose that in this modern...
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Ulster enjoys its virtual birthday
Amid government moves towards the United Kingdom's first e-university, Ulster University's pioneering virtual school is celebrating its first anniversary. The virtual school within the science...
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No bones about a dusty old dig
Despite extreme heat, archaeologists converge every year from July to September on a dusty Turkish plain. Çatalhöyük has become one of the world's busiest archaeological sites, but size can have its...
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From past perfect to uncertain future
The Welfare State Reader
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English's hold on Asians
REPORTS of the importance of English are commonplace. But the recent spate of news about English in Asia begs attention. In Hong Kong the University Grants Committee has proposed tougher English...
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Inky lines that can be more than words
The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China
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American graffiti rules
The United States' political and military presence in Asia and the Pacific assumed massive proportions after the second world war. General Douglas MacArthur ruled Japan like a viceroy until he...
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Indicating the way out of slack waters
The medieval History Journal