India ignored
How can Peter Harris (World View, THES April 14) talk of Asia without showing a trace of awareness of the Indian subcontinent? A consideration of the variety of Indian attitudes to democracy, for...
How can Peter Harris (World View, THES April 14) talk of Asia without showing a trace of awareness of the Indian subcontinent? A consideration of the variety of Indian attitudes to democracy, for...
Paris, 26 February 2002 Europe's showpiece in climate monitoring is called Envisat. Fully equipped, the largest, most complex, and most powerful Earth observation satellite of the European Space...
Both rank and race dictated imperial order, writes John MacKenzie. Ornamentalism is a brave title. It might be construed as reflecting just surface pattern and design, the arabesques that gladden the...
Despite most VSO volunteers working in education, there is still a shortage of primary teachers, says Mark Goldring. Much has been made in the press recently of Voluntary Service Overseas's new brand...
For Asians who have great respect for the past, it must be surprising to learn that the number of students taking history at schools and universities has been falling for the past three decades. In...
As raging fires in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo fuelled fears that Southeast Asia would again be hit by haze, Malaysia's cabinet has refused to publish official pollution data. Ministers fear...
Agitation about plagiarism is getting through to students. As Shaun Breslin, acting director of Newcastle University's East Asia centre, finished a distinctly lively paper on the future of China at...
George Joffe, whose acrimonious departure from his post as deputy director of Chatham House highlighted divisions in the foreign affairs institute, this week disclosed his blueprint for its future,...
Even before the University of the South Pacific suspended classes because of last month's attempted coup, racist pressure had forced it to suspend the appointment of a new vice-chancellor. In the...
IT IS misleading to state that the new department of world music at Thames Valley is the first of its kind in a British university (THES, June ). The centre of music studies, School of Oriental and...
The move towards a common European higher education system is happening faster than many people realise, delegates to Salamanca 2001, the Convention of European Higher Education Institutions, heard...
The Archaeology of Elam
Academic alliances are strained as rivals pile on pressure. Clashes between commerce and universities seem inevitable following a series of deals that could result in potential conflicts of interest...
Geneticist Luca Cavalli-Sforza says there is no scientific basis for race. Now his latest project has been attacked for bigotry. Ayala Ochert reports. US President Bill Clinton was full of praise...