Dragon finds use for Cobra
China is courting India, seeing it as the key to high-tech English-speaking western markets, writes Wang Gungwu Improved diplomatic relations between India and China will not have dramatic effects on...
China is courting India, seeing it as the key to high-tech English-speaking western markets, writes Wang Gungwu Improved diplomatic relations between India and China will not have dramatic effects on...
Tatarstan, a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, is preparing to switch the script used for the Tatar language from Cyrillic to the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet. Next month,...
Tzvetan Todorov ("A case of right over might", THES February 9) makes an interesting contribution to the debate on humanitarian intervention but some points should be made in response. Todorov's...
Blue-chip talent to help poor schools Britain’s brightest graduates are to be invited to spend two years’ “national service” teaching in London’s roughest schools before heading off to lucrative jobs...
Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European
Through the stories of captives, Linda Colley found an alternative image of the British Empire that had itself been locked away, writes Karen Gold. When the British historian Linda Colley met her...
WANG Gungwu wrote thoughtfully about the type of degrees which will best suit the universities of Southeast Asia ("Breadth and the Powerful", THES, December 26) and ended by suggesting that damage...
Claire Sanders looks at why Chinese studies is struggling in the UK when China is booming. Oxford University's appointment of Cornell professor Vivienne Shue as its first professor of contemporary...
Friday An early start for Chennai, via Newcastle, Heathrow and Dubai. I am spending a week in southern India on behalf of the Sterling Group, an informal aggregate of 23 UK engineering departments...
Innovation Lecture 2002 Dear Mr Wijn, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and a pleasure to address you here, in the birthplace of Dutch democracy. It is also a difficult task to intervene after...
British universities are losing foreign students to their Australian counterparts as Germans choose increasingly to go Down Under to study, improve their English and get a suntan into the bargain....
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Middlesex University, which faces an estimated 40 per cent drop in students from South-east Asia, has set...
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia Australia's universities may be uncertain about what Asia's financial crisis will do to overseas student...
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