Flood of foreign students predicted
Australia is facing a huge expansion in the number of fee-paying foreign students seeking places over the next 15 years, according to a new survey. The study predicts a five-fold increase in overseas...
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Chronicle of a death untold
Conspiracy theories about the death in a plane crash of a leading Indian nationalist at the end of the second world war will persist until the British Foreign Office releases papers on the incident....
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk. EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www2.echo.lu IT(esprit) Contact:...
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Surgery free of sedatives
Imperialism and Its Contradictions
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Romanity on the frontier
Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier - English Heritage Book of Housesteads - Roman Building Materials and Techniques - The Towns of Roman Britain
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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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Classified information
The Decolonization of Imagination
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Return of the natives
Lions, buffalos, elephants, rhinos and leopards - the "big five" as they are known in conservation circles - could once again prosper on the game parks of Mozambique if a major research contract...
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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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You are what you eat
Food can define a national identity. Shannon Peckham offers a taste of some of the historical ingredients that shaped our character The destiny of nations," wrote the philosopher of gastronomy...
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Absorbing ideas via porous borders
Cultural Internationalism and World Order
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Warwick leads as others follow
Universities are rushing to copy Warwick University's prestigious Pounds 10 million research fellowship scheme, launched last year to attract 50 top scholars. Among its imitators are old universities...
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The knowledge monopoly
Peruvian Francisco Sagasti appeals to scientists for a little more equality in the global order of knowledge When Francisco Sagasti addressed this year's opening session of the annual meeting of the...
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Character reference in Chinese reforms
Earl Kinmonth (THES, February 3) tries to discredit my views on script reform in China by accusing me of being a decrepit "believer in Mao". Obviously, it is not I but Kinmonth who "seems to be...
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Political potatoes too hot to handle
Student finances and support systems are at the centre of an intense debate again. It has echoes of the 1960s - the preoccupations then were expansion of higher education versus a threat to quality,...