Putting the bite on Africa
Karen Mac Gregor meets the dentist who is chair of South Africa's first National Education Commission Jairam Reddy trod the political tightrope that has become the lot of vice chancellors at...
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The ethical economist
Andrew Robinson and Michael Prest profile Amartya Sen, the economist whose concern for justice stands out in a profession often obsessed with efficiency. With nearly 20 books, innumerable public...
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Vive la difference
John Gray argues for new ways of political thinking that address the deep cultural diversity of the age and replace the bankrupt ideologies, both Left and Right, of the past. The public cultures of...
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Close encounters with far pavilions
Orientalism
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Total war totally covered
The Oxford Companion to the Second World War
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Common cause at Islamabad
On Sunday Commonwealth education ministers assemble in Islamabad for their 12th conference since Oxford in 1959. The gathering is a reaffirmation of the Commonwealth's continuing value to members. It...
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Flare for inspiration
Source: Science Photo Library Developing countries should select flagship universities to become ‘beacon’ institutions and support them to achieve world-class status, says Roger Chao, Jr. The...
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Bond break-up clash
Peter McGill reports from Tokyo on the controversial financial operations of Japanese politician Toshio Yamaguchi. Two troubled universities - one in the United States that was never built and...
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Common trade, common justice
Business Law in the European Economic Area - The European Internal Market and International Trade: - The Agreement on the European Economic Area
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University of Hong Kong tradition of excellence
16th September 2010 The University of Hong Kong's century-long tradition of excellence and a dynamic setting see it ideally placed to capitalise on the core strengths of its students and scholars,...
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Global University Rankings: Great responsibility
4 October 2012 Welcome to the ̽»¨ÊÓƵ World University Rankings 2012-2013. This is no beauty parade, writes Phil Baty: it is a serious evaluation that echoes in common rooms and the...
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Tapping new seams
Source: Alamy As the state disinvests, Queensland is securing the future of its student experience and research by diversifying its income streams, writes Peter Høj. 2014 has become a watershed year...
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Death in the community
Michael Burleigh on the reaction of German health professionals and relatives to the murder of their mentally ill by the Nazis. My work on Nazi Germany began with a book on the supine involvement of...
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Over the hill at 50?
Our Global Neighbourhood: - Utopia Lost:
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Power plays and sister acts
David Walker talks to Partha Dasgupta (right), the Cambridge economist who has focused on the third world's economic dynamos: women. Squatting; cooking; suckling; spinning; water-carrying; herding;...