Tagore's lamp to the mind
It is not often that one accepts an invitation to deliver an address and finds it a life-altering experience. But my visit to Visva-Bharati, an Indian university founded by the great Indian mystic...
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The perfect language
The Arabic Language
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The colour of ivory towers
Fifty years after the arrival of the Windrush heralded an era of black immigration, Lola Young (right) reflects on how blacks have fared in the liberal world of academe. Work is, as always,...
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Ties that bind and tear
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture - The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture - The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
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Woven memories of inflamed lands
Muslim Identity and the Balkan State - Europe's New Nationalism - Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood - Honest Broker or Perfidious Albion?
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Britain at risk of botching its ABC
Half of the country's adults remain poor readers, but Diane McGuinness argues that the governments latest literary strategy is in danger of ignoring some vital lessons. After six years of research on...
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Malaysia sees role in market
Malaysia has urged more Australian students to study at its universities. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the recent "twinning" of Australian and Malaysian institutions had...
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Student victory in debt crisis
Mexican students overseas have won a battle with their government to safeguard their grants from cuts in public spending programmes. When the Mexican exchange rate and foreign debt crisis broke in...
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Captivated by a distorted mirror
Pilgrimage in Tibet - Prisoners of Shangri-La - Inner Revolution
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The reification of rhythm
Indian Music and the West
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East/West enigmas
Management Worldwide - Asian Management Systems
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Education beyond the borders
Education, Globalisation and the Nation State - Integrating Europe Through Cooperation Among Universities - European Dimensions, Education, Training and the European Union - The Erasmus Experience
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Mutant oil palms come to aid of margarine and soap industries
The margarine and soap industries could benefit from British research into improving techniques for the harvesting of oil palm fruits in Malaysia and South East Asia. Researchers at the Open...
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A suitable language?
As India embraces western affluence, more and more of its people want to learn English, the lingua franca of thought and commerce. But is their neglect of India's mother tongues a tragic error, asks...
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A game in which all the players win
Pop Internationalism