Turbines turn on British white heat of technology
Materials scientists in Cambridge and Wales are designing high-performance materials that could give British aeroengine makers the edge over competitors abroad. Project leader Colin Humphreys of...
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Steps to meet the huge increase in foreign students
The THES report (June 23) on the economic benefits of international students based on the recently published Committe of Vice Chancellors and Principals report comes at a time when more attention is...
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Who sent in the police?
Did the prime minister of Canada tell the Mounties to assault student protestors in order to spare Asian leaders embarrassment? W. Wesley Pue says that if he did, he should resign On October 5, a...
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Turkey's deepening divides
A SOCIOLOGIST acquaintance at Boghazi University tells me a contemporary Turkish joke: "Our country's application for entrance to the European Union continues to be denied, but now at least Istanbul...
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Plan for the worst, hope for the best
HIGHER and further education's wish for 1998 must be that the planning blight of 1997 will end. 1997 was a year of waiting - for the election, for reports, for white papers and for money. It was also...
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Voyages of self-discovery
Wasafiri
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The eye on the tiger
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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Flood of foreign students predicted
Australia is facing a huge expansion in the number of fee-paying foreign students seeking places over the next 15 years, according to a new survey. The study predicts a five-fold increase in overseas...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Sources for research funding in 1998 Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EUROPEAN UNION #221> www....
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Surgery free of sedatives
Imperialism and Its Contradictions
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Chronicle of a death untold
Conspiracy theories about the death in a plane crash of a leading Indian nationalist at the end of the second world war will persist until the British Foreign Office releases papers on the incident....
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk. EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www2.echo.lu IT(esprit) Contact:...
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Classified information
The Decolonization of Imagination
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Romanity on the frontier
Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier - English Heritage Book of Housesteads - Roman Building Materials and Techniques - The Towns of Roman Britain
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Return of the natives
Lions, buffalos, elephants, rhinos and leopards - the "big five" as they are known in conservation circles - could once again prosper on the game parks of Mozambique if a major research contract...