The colour of ivory towers
Fifty years after the arrival of the Windrush heralded an era of black immigration, Lola Young (right) reflects on how blacks have fared in the liberal world of academe. Work is, as always,...
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Warwick leads as others follow
Universities are rushing to copy Warwick University's prestigious Pounds 10 million research fellowship scheme, launched last year to attract 50 top scholars. Among its imitators are old universities...
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Britain at risk of botching its ABC
Half of the country's adults remain poor readers, but Diane McGuinness argues that the governments latest literary strategy is in danger of ignoring some vital lessons. After six years of research on...
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Character reference in Chinese reforms
Earl Kinmonth (THES, February 3) tries to discredit my views on script reform in China by accusing me of being a decrepit "believer in Mao". Obviously, it is not I but Kinmonth who "seems to be...
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Absorbing ideas via porous borders
Cultural Internationalism and World Order
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The knowledge monopoly
Peruvian Francisco Sagasti appeals to scientists for a little more equality in the global order of knowledge When Francisco Sagasti addressed this year's opening session of the annual meeting of the...
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You are what you eat
Food can define a national identity. Shannon Peckham offers a taste of some of the historical ingredients that shaped our character The destiny of nations," wrote the philosopher of gastronomy...
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Political potatoes too hot to handle
Student finances and support systems are at the centre of an intense debate again. It has echoes of the 1960s - the preoccupations then were expansion of higher education versus a threat to quality,...
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Events
THE LONDON INSTITUTE. The London Institute Gallery is exhibiting the work of final year fine art students from three of the London Institute Colleges (Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea College of...
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From 'Ugg' to an exchange of ideas
How did early man learn to talk? James Hurford discovers that psychologists, anthropologists, linguists and neurologists all have something to say on the subject. What was the origin of human...
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Balance of power
Source: Getty There seems little doubt that Asia’s star is rising, but reports of its imminent academic hegemony are greatly exaggerated, argues Miguel Lim. “The 21st century will be the Asian...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Putting cotton before fish
Water Quality
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Metropolitan measures
The Early Modern City 1450-1750 - The Growth of the Medieval City from Late Antiquity to the Early 14th Century - The Later Medieval City 1300-1500
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How to transmit the AIDS story
How to mount a public information exercise like the HIV and AIDS campaign with a "disappearing public" is a central theme of "Transmission '96" at Salford University later this year. The arrival of...