Surviving the free market
Vietnam's universities are seizing the opportunities autonomy is giving them. Do Thui Thinh and John Morgan report on a recent workshop Higher education reform is crucial to the economic and social...
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Look who's over here
Over a fifth of postgraduates are overseas students. Mark Nye looks at the attractions of studying in the United Kingdom É«ºÐÖ±²¥ SCRAMBLE for a university place for Michaelmas entry is in full swing but...
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India ignored
How can Peter Harris (World View, É«ºÐÖ±²¥S April 14) talk of Asia without showing a trace of awareness of the Indian subcontinent? A consideration of the variety of Indian attitudes to democracy, for...
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A valuable source, bar the odd dig
A Dictionary of Archaeology
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Copy cuts
Agitation about plagiarism is getting through to students. As Shaun Breslin, acting director of Newcastle University's East Asia centre, finished a distinctly lively paper on the future of China at...
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Herzog calls for radical reforms
German president Roman Herzog has delivered a harsh message to the country's universities: "You are no longer good enough or fast enough." In a hard-hitting speech in Berlin he said "the best heads...
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Aussies mug up on European law
The University of New South Wales in Australia has established the first centre for the study of European law outside Europe and the United States. The European Law Centre will provide an Asian-...
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English in alien attack
Radhakrishnan Nayar (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, June ) seems rather upset by Arundhati Roy, Ian Jack and Salman Rushdie because he suspects that English is an alien medium, and therefore quite incapable of representing...
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Wole, Idi and all that jazz
Africana
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Howard plans Pounds 400m grant cuts
The conservative government of prime minister John Howard plans to reduce its grants to Australian higher education just as graduates repay increasing amounts under the national Higher Education...
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Mission: conserve highfliers
Time is running out for rare Himalayan butterflies, says David Spencer Smith The world's greatest concentration of high mountains lies within the Karakoram range in western Himalaya. It is an arid...
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The right climate for US change?
The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy
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Tubercular alarm bells
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. The growing scourge of tuberculosis, could be eliminated worldwide if doctors and governments were to act...
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Going, going...gone
Black-market trade in antiquities is destroying some countries' heritage. Anne Sebba reports on battles by archaeologists to stop the looting James Ede, a London-based antiquities dealer, put two...
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Proconsuls who ruled the jewel
VICEROY: Curzon to Mountbatten. By Hugh Tinker. Oxford University Press, 266pp, Pounds 11.99. ISBN 0 19 577698 4. What Hugh Tinker calls "a kind of personal retrospect, completed when a lifetime of...