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India's Nuclear Bomb - New Nukes
India's Nuclear Bomb - New Nukes
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The art of commerce How many art and design students will have their work snapped up by Charles Saatchi this year? In the June 30, 2000 issue, THES , Harriet Swain reports on attempts to teach...
Distance learning across international frontiers from a home base has developed in parallel with the growth in conventional student mobility. The tradition goes back to correspondence education and...
Students are moving about the Commonwealth more than ever, but those from poor countries are in danger of being left out. David Jobbins reports on the first full study of student mobility in seven...
Commonwealth governments should give priority to ways of promoting student mobility that will lead to more higher education cooperation between developing countries, the report says in its main...
The report welcomes prime minister Tony Blair's initiative to recruit 50,000 more higher education students from overseas by 2005, but it calls for action to encourage mobility among students from...
Tom Reilly, professor of sports science at Liverpool John Moores University, was a staff member at LJMU (then a polytechnic) when it set up Britain's first sports science degree in 1975. The...
For an expert on war, Michael Howard is much taken with the bits in between - peace. Harriet Swain talks to him It is a warm day and Sir Michael Howard suggests we take our tea - the shorter silver...
Jonathan Black looks at how working-class artists depicted British Tommys Sculptors face numerous problems when tackling the subject of war in peacetime. After the first world war, for example, they...
Britain stood alone against the Nazis in 1940, but as Sonya Rose explains, the thousands of blacks who came to its aid discovered racism and injustice and that the cliffs at Dover were very, very...
Some soldiers faked VD to avoid combat, while more than 300 were shot for deserting. Joanna Bourke explores cowardice In war, mass slaughter is intentional. No one who has witnessed the agonised...
We have just left behind a century of unprecedented violence. In the dawn of the 21st century, it is imperative that we study how different societies have participated in acts of war, often with...
John Davies studies the broadcasting schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Murder, arson, suicide; baptisms, weddings, beauty contests; bankers, farmers and a crazed window-smasher...