Oxford's fee legacy
Oxford clearly needs a Royal Commission, but attacking the college system is barking up the wrong tree. A worse problem in Oxford, one not shared with Cambridge, is the dismal state of the non-...
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British combat waning status
An elite group of British universities concerned to "rehabilitate" Britian's higher education reputation overseas will today discuss boosting its membership and expanding its outreach work, writes...
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Banal Catalans and Bossi Italians
National Identities
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Commonwealth studies are for the good of all
Pat Caplan says the Association for Commonwealth Studies will not be a club but a way of fostering understanding in many fields Why choose 1998 to launch an Association for Commonwealth Studies and...
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Hair of the cat's no fun
Conflict in Korea - Korea
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The painful loss of white prestige
Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Second World War
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Thinness blights world
The global media is spreading eating disorders in non-western cultures, say Leicester University researchers. Psychiatrist Mervat Nasser, author of Culture and Weight Consciousness, claims that...
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The distant dreams of high-tech education
Distance learning across international frontiers from a home base has developed in parallel with the growth in conventional student mobility. The tradition goes back to correspondence education and...
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Multi-storied pasts
The Archaeology of Elam
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Analysis: So what are you good at?
UK universities have great brand names and are good at research but not much else, a conference heard. Alison Goddard reports Universities and colleges should play to their strengths and stop trying...
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MM 2001: War - Research
Colonial Adventurism Why Creek indians were armed and trained by the British in the 1812 war Heaven, for Ross Hassig, an anthropologist on sabbatical from the University of Oklahoma, is the Public...
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In Everyman's footsteps
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...
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Loneliness of overseas students at Christmas
Loneliness is the biggest problem faced by foreign students forced to spend the Christmas holidays in this country, according to Chris Ng, international student secretary at the University of...
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Elite offensive
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia An elite group of 17 British research universities is giving a series of public lectures in Southeast Asia...
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Why UK is going down the pan
To squat or sit, to flush or recycle, to accept top-down solutions or 'bottom-up' revolutions - toilet provision, or the lack of it, reveals a nation's soul, argues Clara Greed There is a great deal...