One badly blemished Brahmin
Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru
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Accessible routes to awareness
A Concise History of Buddhism - The Wisdom of Buddha - Passionate Enlightenment
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Conflicts of self-interest
In the Shadow of War
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Strength of character
Source: Getty As the University of Melbourne knows, brand promises make (or break) reputations. Lara McKay explains how Australia’s finest keeps its word. If you put any group of marketers in a room...
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A prize for admittance
After 1989, the year we were quick enough to call the annus mirabilis of European history, the fall of communism produced a paradox: we all became Marxists, sharing the belief that it would suffice...
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Guerrillas in the mists of time
War in the Shadows
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Picking up the peaces
Michael Prest listens to frustrated UN general-secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali give Oxford's Cyril Foster lecture. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian secretary-general of the United Nations, is a...
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In the place to be
Source: Reuters It’s clear from the continuing power shift from West to East and the success of Boston that real-world geography still plays a vital role in university excellence, even in the...
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Ed Byrne: Consolidated gains
4 October 2012 Ed Byrne recommends international collaboration between institutions to achieve excellence - Australians have taken to the idea like a duck- billed platypus to water Australia takes...
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Tiger burning bright
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
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Cutting costs at a stroke abroad
Frank Booty investigates how Europe's heritage is being digitised in Asia and the Caribbean. What have Euromoney magazine, HMSO publications, The Bible in English, Diploma of Achievement student book...
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Bosses and boffins pact
Ronald Amann welcomes the unique opportunities the new funding culture creates for research, particularly in the social sciences. In 1852, Sir Lyon Playfair, then a lecturer in chemistry in the newly...
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War cancelled due to lack of interest
The Fifty Years War:
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Loaves, fishes and cereal yields
Tim Dyson argues that despite the explosion in world population, it will not outpace food production. Newspapers and television often give considerable coverage to those who argue that the world's...
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Software founders in postmodern age
Software has become too complex and even accidentally killed people. The way ahead is to produce simpler, user-friendly technology, argues Patrick Hall. I have practised as a software engineer for...