Bond break-up clash
Peter McGill reports from Tokyo on the controversial financial operations of Japanese politician Toshio Yamaguchi. Two troubled universities - one in the United States that was never built and...
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Common trade, common justice
Business Law in the European Economic Area - The European Internal Market and International Trade: - The Agreement on the European Economic Area
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Tapping new seams
Source: Alamy As the state disinvests, Queensland is securing the future of its student experience and research by diversifying its income streams, writes Peter Høj. 2014 has become a watershed year...
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University of Hong Kong tradition of excellence
16th September 2010 The University of Hong Kong's century-long tradition of excellence and a dynamic setting see it ideally placed to capitalise on the core strengths of its students and scholars,...
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Global University Rankings: Great responsibility
4 October 2012 Welcome to the ÌÇÐÄVlog World University Rankings 2012-2013. This is no beauty parade, writes Phil Baty: it is a serious evaluation that echoes in common rooms and the...
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Death in the community
Michael Burleigh on the reaction of German health professionals and relatives to the murder of their mentally ill by the Nazis. My work on Nazi Germany began with a book on the supine involvement of...
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Over the hill at 50?
Our Global Neighbourhood: - Utopia Lost:
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Power plays and sister acts
David Walker talks to Partha Dasgupta (right), the Cambridge economist who has focused on the third world's economic dynamos: women. Squatting; cooking; suckling; spinning; water-carrying; herding;...
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Emperor to caliph
Byzantium East, Latin West - Imperial Legacy - Suleyman the Magnificent and his Age - The Reluctant Emperor - Byzantium, The Decline and Fall - Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081...
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The empire strikes back
The West insists on seeing the war in Chechenia as an internal Russian affair. But as Richard Clogg points out, it is only the latest episode in an old struggle by an independent people against their...
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A blood-soaked land between two rivers
Iraq since the Gulf War - Inside the Arab World - The Shi'as of Iraq
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Applied medicine without frontiers
The UK stands out in the clinical, pre-clinical and health table - the only subject ranking headed by a non-American institution. The table is led by the University of Oxford, which has maintained...
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Life Sciences Rankings: Biological interfaces yield strong readings
The top of the life sciences table has been shaken up this year, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reclaiming top spot and Harvard University falling to third. The University of...
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The rational anthem
What makes people buy expensive freshly squeezed orange juice at Marks & Spencer? David Walker asks if the idea of rational choice - that people behave consistently selfishly - has passed its...
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University rankings most important factor for international students
International students choosing where to study are most likely to be swayed by a university’s league table position or its ranking in a particular subject, a new survey suggests. According to the...