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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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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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 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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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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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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Inky lines that can be more than words
The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China
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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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Imperial armies' native nightmares
Guardians of Empire
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Indicating the way out of slack waters
The medieval History Journal
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Badly aimed canons and when to blow off
A Short History of Sociological Thought. Third edition - Sociological Lives and Ideas - Durkheim. First edition - Anthony Giddens - The Civilizing Process. Second edition
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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...