Youth distrust Hong Kong handover
Hong Kong's young people are expecting a bleak future under Chinese rule and have little confidence in the current British administration, an academic survey has found. The telephone survey of 1,660...
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Hungry for greed to end
Markets and Food Riots:
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Payoff for do-gooders
As Volunteers Week gets under way, Alison Utley looks at the personal benefits of helping others. PREPARING an attention-grabbing CV is often the most difficult obstacle facing students applying for...
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Prayers for today
Journal of Contemporary Religion (three times a year)
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Across the social-ecological divide
Linking Social and Ecological Systems
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Call to lift ban on wildlife trade
The international ban on the trade in endangered wildlife is more damaging to the survival of species than poaching, according to Keith Madders, a member of the Zimbabwe Trust and Africa Resource...
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Moscow centre for British skills
Links between universities in Britain and the countries of the former Soviet Union are to be boosted through a Pounds 4.5 million project over three years designed to cement key educational and...
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Christ is risen, and still rising
A World History of Christianity
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Educating in a digital future
Western universities must develop 'edutainment' on the Internet or be left behind, says Sa'ad Medhat. The Internet is redefining how we live, how we do business and how we spend our leisure time, but...
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Get the CVs right first, EU trainers told
The European Union must guard against being over-ambitious in its plans to help reform vocational education and training in the former Eastern bloc. The warning came from Anne Jones, professor of...
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Are fluorescent monkeys keys to glowing health?
The Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin's book consists of review essays originally published in the New York Review of Books between 1981 and 1993, with epilogues to bring them up to date...
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Upholders of the five K's
Sikhism
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A country united by its divisions
Anyone who needs to communicate with India from abroad knows there has been a revolution in the past few years. Not long ago, it was difficult even to transmit a fax to India, let alone receive an...
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Lost, not forgotten, cities of the Indus
SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 1993. Edited by Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 445pp (Volume one), 442pp (Volume two), $195.00 (both volumes). ISBN 951 41 0729 2. The 70...
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On the wrong road to Malay
Bill Watson bemoans the arrogance displayed by British academics and the business community towards Malaysia. When the prime minister of Malaysia speaks British business executives listen nervously,...