Time to defend UK courses in other realms
A recently circulated British Council report points out that there are more than 1,200 private colleges operating in Israel, offering qualifications validated by foreign universities. Britain is now...
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Apple pie in the sky?
Achieving Our Country
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Open and shut case for democracy
The Transformation of Democracy? - Democratization
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A suitable language?
As India embraces western affluence, more and more of its people want to learn English, the lingua franca of thought and commerce. But is their neglect of India's mother tongues a tragic error, asks...
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Exports built on goodwill
WHAT do an Egyptian PhD, a Greek MBA, a Bulgarian MSc and a Singaporean postgraduate in engineering have in common? They are just a few of the many postgraduates who have taken part in the British...
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Woven memories of inflamed lands
Muslim Identity and the Balkan State - Europe's New Nationalism - Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood - Honest Broker or Perfidious Albion?
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Beards only on Kabul campus
KABUL University has reopened for an uncertain academic year short of cash, stationery and women students. The Taliban Movement closed the university indefinitely when it swept into the Afghan...
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First chance for many, last chance for Earth
Tony Durham talks to the president of Commonweath of Learning, Gajaraj Dhanarajan (below) about the triumph of distance learning in Asia For a child whose school journey began with a two-mile pre-...
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The perfect language
The Arabic Language
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Exchange rate falls
International exchanges of students between the United States and Europe, including Britain, are weakening, according to a new survey. The figures may mark a creeping regionalism in student choices,...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL DEng: Ronald Hobbs, former director, Ove Arup and Partners, chairman of the university's buildings committee; John Taylor, head of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and visiting...
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Bill's coherent foreign adventure
US Foreign Policy after trhe Cold War
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Sex as a method
In the second of our series on young researchers, Julia O'Connell Davidson tells Harriet Swain how using sex as a teaching aid led her to study the murky world of prostitution For Julia O'Connell...
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Aborted take-off
The Missing Millions - Africa's Choices - Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Growth strategies
The data show that power is moving eastwards, says Phil Baty, and the ÌÇÐÄVlog Asia University Rankings 2014 map this shifting R&D environment. By Western standards, the scale and...