English aid to develop Cambodia
It is true that Cambodians see English, not French, as the key to unlock the door to jobs (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, May 12), and when one looks at where the investors are coming from (the English-using countries of...
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Exact bequest of a star-struck empire
Angkor Wat
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Lift buttons, libraries and the Bible Belt
Faster - The Clock of the Long Now
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Why it's sayonara, Japan
Trisha Walker looks at why more and more Japanese students are choosing to study abroad Although the Japanese have been going abroad to study since the first century AD, it is only since the mid-...
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Indian summer of discontent
IT HAS often been said that Britain and India share a special, love-hate relationship. Recent events have shown that it is still very much alive and kicking, and have reminded both countries of how...
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Brutality management
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
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The appearance of incoherence
Contemporary Higher Education - Volume Five - Contemporary Higher Education - Volume Four - Contemporary Higher Education - Volume Six - Contemporary Higher Education - Volume Two - Contemporary...
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Boris's brutal little war
Chechnya
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Landscape and memory
Environment and History
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Cost forces out over-25s
A SHARP drop in the number of mature students applying for higher education cast a shadow this week over the government's claims that its policies will not jeopardise lifelong learning. Figures from...
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Cambodians find fault with French assault
Some 250 Cambodian students demonstrated and burned tyres last week in protest at the use of French as the teaching medium at Phnom Penh's Institute of Technology. Student leaders said the protest...
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Oxford may lose its Liberty
The future of Oxford University's business venture with Liberty was in the balance this week following the upmarket retailers' announcement that all its branches outside London are to close to stem...
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Man's ascent in epidemic leaps
Plague, Pox and Pestilence - Epidemics and History
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Playing the trading game
NEW YORK financial markets have been open for just ten minutes, but already heads are bent over monitors where colour-coded financial information from Reuters and Dow Jones is continuously updated at...
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Global positions on cartography
Framework for the World