'Some of the other students looked down on me for having a BTEC rather than A A levels' Calling up the admissions tutor and demanding a place on his course might seem an unusual way of getting into...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Archaeology and Language
A Dictionary of Archaeology
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-...
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...
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...
Africana
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...
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...
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...
The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy