Student intake up in Siberia
Something is stirring in one remote region of Russia. Nick Holdsworth investigates the post-perestroika search for skills. Studying is back in style in Siberia where applications to universities are...
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Exposing a secret agenda
As the British government dithers over freedom of information, international economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that true democracy requires a culture of openness. The east Asia crisis has shown how...
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Bringing the old bones to life
Time Machines - Dinosaur Impressions
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Maintaining the New Order
The Indonesian Economy Since 1966
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Japanese venture into business partnerships with industry
Hokkaido University in north Japan is to establish a business investment fund to attract capital for manufacturing and marketing the products being developed at the university's research laboratories...
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Facing up to market forces
Universities are waking up to the fact that their position as primary providers of post-secondary knowledge is under attack. Alison Goddard reports on challenges that lie ahead Seven years ago Sir...
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Tales from the little folk provide hangover cure
Children's literature is a goldmine for academic research. But first disguise it as folklore, advises James Riordan Oxford don C. S. Lewis expressed concern about the "silly convention" that caused...
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State grip too tight for comfort
FROM THE hothouse universities of the tiger economies of the Far East to Africa's riot-torn and constantly closed campuses, there is a wealth of anecdotal evidence to suggest growing state...
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King Unready to Dome (un)ready
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Lost, not forgotten, cities of the Indus
SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 1993. Edited by Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 445pp (Volume one), 442pp (Volume two), $195.00 (both volumes). ISBN 951 41 0729 2. The 70...
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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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Proconsuls who ruled the jewel
VICEROY: Curzon to Mountbatten. By Hugh Tinker. Oxford University Press, 266pp, Pounds 11.99. ISBN 0 19 577698 4. What Hugh Tinker calls "a kind of personal retrospect, completed when a lifetime of...
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English aid to develop Cambodia
It is true that Cambodians see English, not French, as the key to unlock the door to jobs (THES, May 12), and when one looks at where the investors are coming from (the English-using countries of...
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Payoff for do-gooders
As Volunteers Week gets under way, Alison Utley looks at the personal benefits of helping others. PREPARING an attention-grabbing CV is often the most difficult obstacle facing students applying for...
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Ice age overdue, says vulcanologist
Aisling Irwin and Juliet Vickery report from the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham. A volcanic eruption powerful enough to trigger another ice age is long overdue, a...