Outlook: clear
Having proclaimed liberal democracy triumphant and history over, Francis Fukuyama now finds that family breakdown is down to the pill and women going out to work. Harriet Swain talks to a...
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East/West enigmas
Management Worldwide - Asian Management Systems
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Art of turning metal into merit
The Art of Burma
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No need for a depression
The Return of Depression Economics
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Poor relations fight for title
GERMAN fachhochschulen want the right to market themselves internationally as "universities" because, they claim, people outside Germany do not understand that they are fully-fledged higher education...
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Assault on turbulence
Scientists at the Isaac Newton Institute are spending six months trying to solve what Einstein dubbed the ultimate scientific problem - turbulence. Julian Hunt reports. If you like to puzzle about...
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Throng numbers
International Journal of Population Geography (four times a year)
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On the scent of Fragrant Harbour's pungent history
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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The new face of recession
NO FINANCE minister can ever talk publicly of "the next recession". To do so is, at best, to admit that the government's policies cannot prevent it and, at worst, to invite the opposition to accuse...
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Cable links TV to Net
In London last week cable television entrepreneur Glenn R. Jones, whose interests include the Denver-based Mind Extension University, spoke about his latest venture which combines the massive...
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New spins on the web
HELPING to judge the 1997 UCISA Web Awards was an eye opener. I thought I knew fairly well what British academics are doing on the web. But impressive new sites had appeared. Familiar ones had grown...
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Bleeding-edge web journal with wires attached
World Wide Web Journal Edited by Rohit Khare O'Reilly and Associates Published four times a year US $75.00; Canada and Mexico $81.00; Europe, Africa, Central and South America $105.00; Asia,...
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How two vice chancellors see it
John Hay, vice chancellor of the University of Queensland: "HECS is a reasonable scheme. On the whole, it addresses the needs of first-degree students. The biggest problem is that all students pay...
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Stories across a continent
Kunapipi Journal of Post-colonial Writing
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The proper application of overwhelming force
Asia continues its progress towards superpower status on a wave of investment, says Phil Baty. Is Asia the next higher education superpower? This is the question posed in the title of a new book...