Did we jump or were we pushed?
The British believe they bade a graceful goodbye to empire. But Peter Marshall (left) discerns weakness behind the grace, while Patrick French reveals how Britain relied on espionage to prop up its...
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Call to lift ban on wildlife trade
The international ban on the trade in endangered wildlife is more damaging to the survival of species than poaching, according to Keith Madders, a member of the Zimbabwe Trust and Africa Resource...
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Throng numbers
International Journal of Population Geography (four times a year)
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Weed 'em and reap
Journal of Vegetable Crop Production (twice a year)
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Stories across a continent
Kunapipi Journal of Post-colonial Writing
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Treasure tests
The Politics of Display
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Channel to wider horizons
When I graduated from University College London in 1959, virtually the only non-British students I had met were from the Commonwealth and North America, and it was mostly to the latter that we went...
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A country united by its divisions
Anyone who needs to communicate with India from abroad knows there has been a revolution in the past few years. Not long ago, it was difficult even to transmit a fax to India, let alone receive an...
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Changing the rules of the game
Mastering the Infinite Game - Sun Tzu and the Art of Business
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Poor relations fight for title
GERMAN fachhochschulen want the right to market themselves internationally as "universities" because, they claim, people outside Germany do not understand that they are fully-fledged higher education...
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Apple pie in the sky?
Achieving Our Country
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Youth distrust Hong Kong handover
Hong Kong's young people are expecting a bleak future under Chinese rule and have little confidence in the current British administration, an academic survey has found. The telephone survey of 1,660...
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Cable links TV to Net
In London last week cable television entrepreneur Glenn R. Jones, whose interests include the Denver-based Mind Extension University, spoke about his latest venture which combines the massive...
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Invisible borders around the elite
Tony Durham reports from Singapore on the global scramble to develop and control forms of distance learning. No knowledge, no future: from shanty town to corporate headquarters this is understood....
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Holy Roman umpire
John Paul II's papacy appears to be drawing to a close. Will he be succeeded by another conservative or a liberal or a non-European now that his church is increasingly that of the poor and the Third...