The colour of ivory towers
Fifty years after the arrival of the Windrush heralded an era of black immigration, Lola Young (right) reflects on how blacks have fared in the liberal world of academe. Work is, as always,...
Fifty years after the arrival of the Windrush heralded an era of black immigration, Lola Young (right) reflects on how blacks have fared in the liberal world of academe. Work is, as always,...
Empire and Information
CONTROVERSY continues to dog the Australian government's appointment of a committee to advise on the future of higher education for the next 20 years. Deans of education have called for the sacking...
It is not often that one accepts an invitation to deliver an address and finds it a life-altering experience. But my visit to Visva-Bharati, an Indian university founded by the great Indian mystic...
The Arabic Language
Pilgrimage in Tibet - Prisoners of Shangri-La - Inner Revolution
Half of the country's adults remain poor readers, but Diane McGuinness argues that the governments latest literary strategy is in danger of ignoring some vital lessons. After six years of research on...
Muslim Identity and the Balkan State - Europe's New Nationalism - Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood - Honest Broker or Perfidious Albion?
Celt and Greek
John Hay, vice chancellor of the University of Queensland: "HECS is a reasonable scheme. On the whole, it addresses the needs of first-degree students. The biggest problem is that all students pay...
Education, Globalisation and the Nation State - Integrating Europe Through Cooperation Among Universities - European Dimensions, Education, Training and the European Union - The Erasmus Experience
The future of Oxford University's business venture with Liberty was in the balance this week following the upmarket retailers' announcement that all its branches outside London are to close to stem...
Indian Music and the West
Students who were born in Asia are winning places in New South Wales universities at up to three times the rate of their Australian or European-born counterparts, possibly because their parents place...
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