Yen crisis prompts aid for students
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ Japanese government has produced an emergency package to help thousands of foreign students who are in financial difficulties because of the East Asian currency crisis. About 30 per cent of Japan...
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Why poles are all at sea
It is not only rocks that geologists are using to track the earth's constantly changing magnetic field. Geoff Watts reports on how centuries-old measurements are playing a part. In the early 18th...
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Isms, ologies and dead cats
Social Policy and Welfare
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Ways of all Buddhists
The Foundations of Buddhism
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Disarming thoughts on power
Alternative Nuclear Futures
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Keys, codes and a cracking story
Enigma - The Emperor's Codes - Battle of Wits
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Of famine, genocide and slicing up brains
A century of lost lives has changed a nation, writes Adam Hochschild. When my family and I were living in Moscow some ten years ago, the only foreigners in a sombre, fortress-like apartment block, a...
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Civil servants' heavenly fall
Tokyo. SENIOR Japanese civil servants are sidestepping golden jobs in the business world when they retire to take lecturing posts with leading universities. Yoshimasa Nishimura, former director...
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Volga river city weathers slide of the rouble
There is an independent air about Saratov, capital of one of Russia's leading reformist regions. The Volga river city, 500 miles south-east of Moscow, is proud of its 400-year history as a trading...
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Rise of Anglo-Chinese
In this part of the world, it is commonplace to argue that English is important to the Chinese because of its usefulness in trade and finance. Anyone who is bilingual in Chinese and English can...
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Women join the training net from Canada to Tuvalu
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ first electronic network to be set up for women working in technical and vocational education and training in the Asia Pacific region has attracted interest from more than 20 countries. The...
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Advice for the age of e-verything
Global Electronic Commerce - e-Enterprise - The Business of e-Commerce
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State grip too tight for comfort
FROM É«ºÐÖ±²¥ hothouse universities of the tiger economies of the Far East to Africa's riot-torn and constantly closed campuses, there is a wealth of anecdotal evidence to suggest growing state...
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Appointments
University of Buckingham Robert Taylor, pro-director at the School of Oriental and African Studies, will succeed Richard Luce in January 1997 as vice chancellor. University of Kent at Canterbury...
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First-class degrees on wane
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ NUMBER of students gaining top honours is falling, according to statistics published today. But the male/female divide remains, with 7.7 per cent of male students who achieved degrees in 1995/96...