Turkmenistan banks on silk road tourism
Turkmenistan has two main resources - fossil fuels and the tourist potential of the ancient Silk Road. But both have their down side. Until new (and politically controversial) pipelines are built,...
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New York
Time magazine has selected the University of Southern California as its "College of the Year" for 1999. Time said the university, often seen as a second choice for students who failed to get into...
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Tunis
About 500 students from the francophone west African state of Guinea staged a peaceful demonstration outside the country's embassy in Tunis claiming their grants have not been paid for five months....
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Penang
University Sains Malaysia has rejected a student council claim that 80 per cent of students are against mixed-race roomin. Officials said it was "absurd" to speak for 14,000 students on the basis of...
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Pilgrims with tales to tell
Harvey J. Kaye joined historians on the road to Galicia this summer to debate where their work was leading morally and politically I came away from the second international congress of "History under...
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Cuba softens line on economist
MONTREAL. Cuba's attitude to critical academics may be easing only months after the jailing of four dissidents who questioned the country's economic and political policies. A Cuban professor who...
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Body found in well may be don's
ROME. The body of one of Italy's most eminent economists, who mysteriously disappeared 12 years ago, may be at the bottom of a well near Rome, according to a lawyer who bought the land. Federico...
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Derrida among the dingos
MELBOURNE. Jacques Derrida, the famed French philosopher and cultural theorist, drew crowds in their thousands when he visited Melbourne and Sydney last week. The powerful proponent of deconstruction...
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Unesco raises the profile of statistics
PARIS. A British academic is in charge of transforming Unesco's statistics division into a semi-autonomous institute that will give world leaders data to aid decision-making. Denise Lievesley, former...
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Explicit ideas on sex
As email and the web become ubiquitous, guidelines for ethical use of internet services are now essential for users, says Ruth McGuire. One useful lesson to emerge from the Clinton scandal is that...
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Why I... believe Jack Straw's comments about Gypsies are 'stereotypical tripe'
Colin Clark Lecturer in social policy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and member of the British Gypsy Council. Moving On: The Gypsies and Travellers of Britain by Colin Clark and Donald Kendrick...
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Better get hip, Daddio
'I was hamstered and now I'm c**ted.' If you want to teach effectively, best brush up on your slang, says Tony Thorne. As a nation, it seems, we British are passing through a particularly foul-...
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Why the numbers don't add up
The quality of teaching should not be measured by scores, says Roger Williams The Quality Assurance Agency will soon present proposals for a new method of assessing the quality of university teaching...
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Faith in the piper
I am stunned by the suggestion that the Quality Assurance Agency should itself be quality assured ("A piper who does not play the payer's tune", THES, August 20). This would be to challenge the ways...
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Epistemological split
Paul Gross and Mark Bauerlein (THES, August 6) chide me for trying to identify some middle ground between two contrasting epistemologists, Susan Haack and Sandra Harding. My offence is neither to...