The shape of things to come
Eight leading thinkers ponder how the world will change in eight crucial areas over the next 50 years * MATT RIDLEY on disease Aids, mad-cow disease, the Ebola virus: it sometimes seems as if we live...
Eight leading thinkers ponder how the world will change in eight crucial areas over the next 50 years * MATT RIDLEY on disease Aids, mad-cow disease, the Ebola virus: it sometimes seems as if we live...
The Arabic Language
The Platypus and the Mermaid
SCIENTISTS in Asia and Eastern Europe are plugging into the molecular biology databases of the leading industrial nations, a rich source of knowledge that could be applied in medicine and farming....
Societies and Military Power
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
THES looks at reaction to the DFEE's fourth Dearing submission, which queried standards and expansion FURTHER doubts surfaced this week about Government claims that graduate supply will soon outstrip...
Was Tutankhamen murdered by anadviser who coveted his wife and his throne? Bob Brier follows up the leads ina 3,000-year-old mystery. Tutankhamen is one of Egyptology's great mysteries. The most...
Claire Sanders reflects on the stories and people who made the news last year January The legacy of Lord Dearing's inquiry into higher education dominated 1998.It began with the Teaching and Higher...
Are academics going GAGA (suffering from grant application gambling addiction) in their quest to escape drudgery, asks William J. Keenan "Eleven 'goes' since July. Three hits - one bonanza and two...
Jane Austen
UK universities' case for more public money is weak, says Stewart Wood in the third of a five-part series on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing HE The recently announced "...
The Gold of Troy
European Brief Edited by Roderick Crawford Montfort Press, bimonthly, Pounds 60.00 ISSN 1354 5507 There already exists a plethora of journals and magazines devoted to a range of competing European...
EXPRESSIONS of alarm over the static numbers of foreigners choosing to study in the United States have fallen on deaf government ears. There appears to be little appetite for challenging the...