Where a single girl can meet a guerrilla
A survey of the internet's effect on societycovers lots of ground but leaves some holes, Richard Clayton writes. Manuel Castells is a sociology professor based in Berkeley, California, whose trilogy...
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Dispatches from the front
Scenes from the End - A War to be Won
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Aid to help Asian fallout
SOME universities are freezing overseas fees or creating bursaries to try to ease the plight of students hit by the financial crisis in South-east Asia. Heriot-Watt - with 490 overseas students,...
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Tigers taken to task
Unintended Consequences - The Trouble with Tigers
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Eyewitness
Australians vote next week in a referendum to decide whether the country will cut its 210-year-old ties to the British monarchy and become a republic. Although polls show a clear majority favours a...
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Copy cuts
Agitation about plagiarism is getting through to students. As Shaun Breslin, acting director of Newcastle University's East Asia centre, finished a distinctly lively paper on the future of China at...
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Original imperial greens
Nature and the Orient
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Historic rewrite required
For Asians who have great respect for the past, it must be surprising to learn that the number of students taking history at schools and universities has been falling for the past three decades. In...
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From past perfect to uncertain future
The Welfare State Reader
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Five-year plan is a ray of light
A programme investigating rain forest dynamics has won new funding. Wendy Barnaby reports A new paradigm in tropical ecology research is emerging from work in Southeast Asia, and is so successful it...
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Research Opportunities - East and South Asian Studies
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs in East and South Asian Studies #221> . Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are...
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Warwick Pounds 40m deal
Science minister David Hunt this week announced a Pounds 40 million link-up between the University of Warwick and design and manufacturing firm Computervision. The research and education...
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Back door to immigration
Pacific island nations have become stepping stones in an illegal immigration racket that stretches from Fujian province in southern China to the United States territory of Guam. For $20,000, those...
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Demand for degrees outstrips supply
With 97 million people expected in higher education by 2010, universities worldwide are moving into South America, China and the Gulf in an attempt to bag the new recruits first, says Tony Tysome...