Ties that bind and tear
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Rankings and the developing world
As you might expect, universities in developing East Asian nations have limited expectations of joining the world rankings high table alongside the likes of Harvard University, the University of...
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Captivated by a distorted mirror
Pilgrimage in Tibet - Prisoners of Shangri-La - Inner Revolution
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Lean times for Aussie economists
Economics is the classic case of the emperor without clothes. But what of the emperor's tailors - the practitioners of the dismal science? The economic rationalists of academe are the very ones who...
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Dusk heralds the night
Writer Taslima Nasreen, who fled Bangladesh for the West after fundamentalists threatened to put her to death for her views on the Koran, asks if we are returning to an age of barbarism. We hear, we...
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Destination USA for students
Overseas students are still flocking to the United States. Universities and colleges admitted an all-time high of almost 450,000 in the academic year 1993/94, but the rate of increase is slowing down...
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Wars: how to start and stop one
Strategic Coercion - Why Wars Happen
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A dubious dominion of the dons
However defined, all institutions claim to embody ideals. Representative politics, the great religious systems, the press and the family are commonly discussed in ideal language. From such...
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Foreign student growth slows
Australia is facing a sharp decline in the growth of its education export industry as universities compete for fee-paying students in the developing countries, writes Geoff Maslen. According to the...
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Education beyond the borders
Education, Globalisation and the Nation State - Integrating Europe Through Cooperation Among Universities - European Dimensions, Education, Training and the European Union - The Erasmus Experience
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Secret of the bone cave unearthed
Archaeologists had a field day when they found remains of the oldest Europeans in Spain, but in Israel they are in trouble. Discoveries that change understanding of human evolution are a rare...
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Criminal economies of scale
TRANSNATIONAL ORGANISED CRIME Edited by Phil Williams Frank Cass, quarterly, Pounds 38.00 (individuals), Pounds 90.00 (institutions) ISSN 1357 7387 Economic analysis has made us familiar with topics...
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Princely state full of paupers' graves
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Dispute
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Glen coup
Scotland's red deer are threatenedby a Japanese breed, Juliet Vickery reports. We have, as a nation, broadly welcomed Japanese investment in Britain but there is a growing feeling that one such...
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Events
FREDERICK DOUGLASS. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frederick Douglass's first trip to Britain, The David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University will host an international...