The new face of recession
NO FINANCE minister can ever talk publicly of "the next recession". To do so is, at best, to admit that the government's policies cannot prevent it and, at worst, to invite the opposition to accuse...
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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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Stories across a continent
Kunapipi Journal of Post-colonial Writing
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New spins on the web
HELPING to judge the 1997 UCISA Web Awards was an eye opener. I thought I knew fairly well what British academics are doing on the web. But impressive new sites had appeared. Familiar ones had grown...
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Bleeding-edge web journal with wires attached
World Wide Web Journal Edited by Rohit Khare O'Reilly and Associates Published four times a year US $75.00; Canada and Mexico $81.00; Europe, Africa, Central and South America $105.00; Asia,...
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Familiar estrangement
D. H. Lawrence - D. H. Lawrence
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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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An end to human wrongs?
Crimes against Humanity
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How two vice chancellors see it
John Hay, vice chancellor of the University of Queensland: "HECS is a reasonable scheme. On the whole, it addresses the needs of first-degree students. The biggest problem is that all students pay...
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Findings from the AAAS
Julia Hinde reports from the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California Gum disease linked to premature births US scientists have provided what may be...
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Let there be Newton
While some pundits doubt whether the 17th-century revolution in science took place, advances in knowledge were undeniably made. Robert Fox surveys an epoch of change, from Galileo's vision of a...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Arrive in Hong Kong. It has been three years since I returned to the United Kingdom after 18 years in Hong Kong and a year since my last visit. Red flags proclaim China's ownership. Later this...
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Teesside VR centre forges business links
A Pounds 2.3 million virtual reality centre serving students and local industries will be housed in the latest showpiece building to rise on the formerly down-at-heel campus of the University of...
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Drabble routed by Americans
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
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Borders open to Net study
All countries in the Asia-Pacific region now rank "internationalisation" high on their economic agendas and see universities as playing a crucial role. According to Ken McKinnon, former president of...