Language barriers in the seminar
Jennie Bristow examines the pros and cons of the influx of overseas students LECTURERS are preparing themselves for a new set of faces in universities at the start of the United Kingdom's academic...
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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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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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Battle to keep colleges black
Supporters of black colleges and universities in the United States have leapt to their defence after a series of scandals and financial mishaps hit their credibility. Black colleges were once the...
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Graves, groves and great Greeks
The Cambridge Ancient History
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Significance from the margins
The Conditions of Listening
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Molecular databases go global
SCIENTISTS in Asia and Eastern Europe are plugging into the molecular biology databases of the leading industrial nations, a rich source of knowledge that could be applied in medicine and farming....
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Scotland welcomes a cultural infusion
COMMONWEALTH THE FOUR-DAY Commonwealth heads of government meeting nestles within a dazzling array of celebratory events at Edinburgh University that began in June with a lecture from Commonwealth...
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Ancestral thoughts
The Prehistory of the Mind - The Prehistory of Sex
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Speaking Volumes: Mimesis
John Fuegi on Erich Auerbach's Mimesis . It seems madly improbable that Mimesis should have been written at all. Its author was a German-Jewish intellectual and it was written in German in Istanbul...
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Welcome to the inaugural Asian University Rankings
The world's most dynamic region in terms of higher education growth deserves its own dedicated rankings, argues Phil BatyAsia is the most exciting region on Earth in higher education terms.It is...
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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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Australian campus for Malaysia
Australia and Malaysia have signed a bilateral agreement covering education co-operation that is expected to see Australian university campuses opening in the Asian nation. The agreement was signed...
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Weed 'em and reap
Journal of Vegetable Crop Production (twice a year)
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King Unready to Dome (un)ready
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