Buccaneers of imperial business
Business and Race Politics in British India, c. 1850 to 1960
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Asian crisis to cost Pounds 300m
British universities are redirecting their overseas recruitment efforts as they prepare for a collapse in their Asian Tigers market. Institutions in the United Kingdom stand to lose over Pounds 300...
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Cutting Edge: Tony Martin
One of the world's unsung endangered species, the river dolphin, can be saved given sufficient funds and the political will. Male pink dolphins make nocturnal forays into the small human communities...
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Pacific overtures
Paul Keating launched Australia towards a republic when he was prime minister. Now a visiting lecturer, he tells Chris Johnston about his hopes for the nation. In the scheme of things, Paul Keating...
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Not past his sell-by date
Recently retired academic Roy Porter tells Christopher Wood why we - and his bank manager - can look forward to more books. When writing about the historian Roy Porter, the convention is to refer to...
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QAA forges links to keep Britain ahead of the US and Australia
British higher education is playing the quality card in its efforts to compete with Australia and the United States for a share of the Southeast Asian market. Close links between government...
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Chicago take on the euro issue
Keys to Prosperity
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Democratic staples in an oriental diet
Asian Freedoms
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Report of CREST meeting (scientific and technical research) on 8 February 2002
Brussels, 9 April 2002 Scientific and Technical Research Committee ­ CREST ­ Secretariat. Summary conclusions of the 281st meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (...
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MM 2001: War - Research
Colonial Adventurism Why Creek indians were armed and trained by the British in the 1812 war Heaven, for Ross Hassig, an anthropologist on sabbatical from the University of Oklahoma, is the Public...
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The distant dreams of high-tech education
Distance learning across international frontiers from a home base has developed in parallel with the growth in conventional student mobility. The tradition goes back to correspondence education and...
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British combat waning status
An elite group of British universities concerned to "rehabilitate" Britian's higher education reputation overseas will today discuss boosting its membership and expanding its outreach work, writes...
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Satellite helps Fiji campus ride out coup disruption
David Jobbins and Philip Fine at the Commonwealth education ministers' meeting, Halifax The dispersed multicampus University of the South Pacific was able to harness the latest satellite technology...
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The fundraising deal: we get cash, you get kudos
This week, all but one of the trade unions with substantial membership in higher education embarked on industrial action over pay. No one has apparently noticed. But two other stories hit the...
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Devaluation hits students
AUSTRALIAN universities fear that the currency crisis in southeast Asia could hit the number of fee-paying students studying here. Evidence from their recruiting officials in Indonesia, Malaysia, the...