Into the darkness
Slavery was established in parts of the world aeons before the US was even a twinkle in Washington's eye and it was rarely restricted to one race or group. So how, asks David Brion Davis, did chattel...
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From rice fields to killing fields
The Pol Pot Regime - Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, 1975-80
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New life in e-books
Academics cannot get their books published. Is electronic publishing the answer? asks Robert Darnton Are scholarly monographs -learned treatises on specific subjects - in danger of extinction,...
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Tales from the little folk provide hangover cure
Children's literature is a goldmine for academic research. But first disguise it as folklore, advises James Riordan Oxford don C. S. Lewis expressed concern about the "silly convention" that caused...
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A vision of poetry in motion
In the sesquicentennial of The Communist Manifesto, I have a confession to make: I regularly try to disabuse myself of thinking like a Marxist, identifying with the labour movement, and believing in...
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Malaysia sees role in market
Malaysia has urged more Australian students to study at its universities. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the recent "twinning" of Australian and Malaysian institutions had...
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The way we were radical
AT THE END of this semester I planned to throw myself into 19th-century American history, but two new books - 1968: Magnum Throughout the World, a collection of photographs introduced by Eric...
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Humans: interesting but deadly
Becoming Human
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Language barriers in the seminar
Jennie Bristow examines the pros and cons of the influx of overseas students LECTURERS are preparing themselves for a new set of faces in universities at the start of the United Kingdom's academic...
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Mutant oil palms come to aid of margarine and soap industries
The margarine and soap industries could benefit from British research into improving techniques for the harvesting of oil palm fruits in Malaysia and South East Asia. Researchers at the Open...
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Battle to keep colleges black
Supporters of black colleges and universities in the United States have leapt to their defence after a series of scandals and financial mishaps hit their credibility. Black colleges were once the...
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Graves, groves and great Greeks
The Cambridge Ancient History
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Welcome to the inaugural Asian University Rankings
The world's most dynamic region in terms of higher education growth deserves its own dedicated rankings, argues Phil BatyAsia is the most exciting region on Earth in higher education terms.It is...
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Tagore's lamp to the mind
It is not often that one accepts an invitation to deliver an address and finds it a life-altering experience. But my visit to Visva-Bharati, an Indian university founded by the great Indian mystic...
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Molecular databases go global
SCIENTISTS in Asia and Eastern Europe are plugging into the molecular biology databases of the leading industrial nations, a rich source of knowledge that could be applied in medicine and farming....