Civil servants' heavenly fall
Tokyo. SENIOR Japanese civil servants are sidestepping golden jobs in the business world when they retire to take lecturing posts with leading universities. Yoshimasa Nishimura, former director...
Tokyo. SENIOR Japanese civil servants are sidestepping golden jobs in the business world when they retire to take lecturing posts with leading universities. Yoshimasa Nishimura, former director...
Worldly Wise: 13. Economist Paul Krugman is pugnacious, contrary - and often right. He forecast East Asia's crisis and he has a controversial prescription. Huw Richards reports Economist Paul Krugman...
AUSTRALIAN vice-chancellors are mounting a big publicity campaign for the October 3 general election to get voters' backing for a bigger universities' budget. The AVCC said it would be advertising in...
Nottingham-born Bob Dixon speaks five Aboriginal languages - just 245 to go. Julia Hinde reports There were probably 250 separate languages - each as different as French and German," explains Bob...
As Britain entered the post-colonial age some four decades ago, Dean Acheson, principal architect of postwar United States foreign policy, made his notorious comment that while Britain had lost an...
The observation by fish farmers that some fish families are more resistant to disease than others is to be exploited by researchers at Stirling University. Randolph Richards, John Sargent and Brendan...
Waseda University, one of Japan's oldest and most prestigious private institutions, has applied to the ministry of education in Tokyo for permission to open a new graduate school. The school will...
Radhakrishnan Nayar (THES, June ) seems rather upset by Arundhati Roy, Ian Jack and Salman Rushdie because he suspects that English is an alien medium, and therefore quite incapable of representing...
The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm
The Art of Burma
While some pundits doubt whether the 17th-century revolution in science took place, advances in knowledge were undeniably made. Robert Fox surveys an epoch of change, from Galileo's vision of a...
THE NUMBER of students gaining top honours is falling, according to statistics published today. But the male/female divide remains, with 7.7 per cent of male students who achieved degrees in 1995/96...
Time is running out for rare Himalayan butterflies, says David Spencer Smith The world's greatest concentration of high mountains lies within the Karakoram range in western Himalaya. It is an arid...
THE Japanese government has produced an emergency package to help thousands of foreign students who are in financial difficulties because of the East Asian currency crisis. About 30 per cent of Japan...
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