Destination USA for students
Overseas students are still flocking to the United States. Universities and colleges admitted an all-time high of almost 450,000 in the academic year 1993/94, but the rate of increase is slowing down...
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Graves, groves and great Greeks
The Cambridge Ancient History
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Europeans at the gates
The Economy of Ireland - Economic Growth in Europe since 1945 - The Stateless Market - Managing The Economy In The 1960s - The Politics of European Integration - Integrating Southern Europe -...
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Lean times for Aussie economists
Economics is the classic case of the emperor without clothes. But what of the emperor's tailors - the practitioners of the dismal science? The economic rationalists of academe are the very ones who...
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Occidental orientations
The Mosque - Islamic Architecture
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu. int/comm/...
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Exchange rate falls
International exchanges of students between the United States and Europe, including Britain, are weakening, according to a new survey. The figures may mark a creeping regionalism in student choices,...
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Princely state full of paupers' graves
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Dispute
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Common tongues
History of Linguistics, Volume One - History of Linguistics, Volume Two
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Fanfare for common good
As their role becomes more complex and resources more scarce, universities need to forge stronger links, says Michael Gibbons. THE COMMONWEALTH is undergoing a period of considerable change. The...
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From 'Ugg' to an exchange of ideas
How did early man learn to talk? James Hurford discovers that psychologists, anthropologists, linguists and neurologists all have something to say on the subject. What was the origin of human...
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Tashkent masterminds
Nearly three years ago a group of European Union specialists came to Uzbekistan in former Soviet Central Asia to launch a programme to train teachers of business management. The aim was to set in...
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Classified information
The Decolonization of Imagination
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Look east, we're lagging behind
Every now and then the world's attention shifts. For much of the post-war period it focused on the Third World, on Korea and Vietnam and the struggles against colonialism. In the 1980s it was the...
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Voyages of self-discovery
Wasafiri