The sleep of reason ... is a female nightmare
* There are 44 million "missing women" in China alone, 36.9 million in India. * In India the "missing women" comprise 9.5 per cent of the number of actual women, in Pakistan 12.9 per cent * When only...
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Analysis: Rubber stamp may not spell quality
Lack of a single accreditation system for all degrees offered in the UK casts doubt over the value of some qualifications. Cherry Canovan reports. Now is the time of year when thousands of...
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Soros woos North Korea
Financier George Soros has established a pilot project to help support North Korea's first moves to a mixed economy. A group of seven North Korean graduate students are studying law, economics and...
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Asians praise British quality
AN AUSTRALIAN survey of students in six Asian countries has found that they rank universities in the United Kingdom highest in terms of course standards and recognition of qualifications, writes...
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French want one front in Aids fight
Ministers want more private-public cooperation to fill 'missing link' in Aids research. Jane Marshall reports French government ministers have berated drugs firms for their lack of action in fighting...
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Imagining India
Novelist Nayantara Sahgal reflects on the power of the word in creating India as a nation, 50 years after her uncle Jawaharlal Nehru's celebrated 'tryst with destiny' One cannot talk about India 50...
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How to woo students from overseas
WHAT: Harinder Bahra argues that international students are not units of finance to be thrown in with the rest of the student cohort. WHY: A warm welcome on arrival and sensitive support throughout...
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Paths that cross in the East
Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy
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No sight of a new colour-blind century
Oxford Readers
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Morally vanquished victors
War and the Illiberal Conscience
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Don's Diary
Thursday The University of South Australia's City West campus is a new creation of yellow concrete buildings and blue staircases. Completed just over a year ago it houses the school of business,...
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Master of destiny
TO BRITISH-born Marc Sharpe there was a dynamism and a drive about United States businesses that he had never experienced in this country. It spurred him to save to study for an MBA at Harvard...
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The English have got a lovely bunch of coconuts
Voltaire's Coconuts
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Did Heidegger conceal an oriental debt?
Heidegger's Hidden Sources
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V-cs go on election offensive for youth
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...