History's bigger picture
This week's Anglo-American historians' conference in London aims to take on the world. Alan Mcafarlane charts its trends It is always worth looking at the development of theoretical systems from the...
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Exploring pathways in the east
THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Recent-history revelations are everywhere this weekend: part two of BBC2's Spying Game, the finale of C4's Can't Pay,...
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Recruitment drive Down Under
The British Council will launch a drive this month to attract more ߣߣÊÓƵn students to study in Britain. It wants to boost the numbers by 70 per cent over the next three years to more than 3,000....
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Offshore campus opens
AUSTRALIA's largest university is expected to open two more offshore campuses, one in South Africa and another in Indonesia, following its success in Malaysia. More than 400 students enrolled at the...
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A bit of profit and gloss
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Stylish theory kinda guy
Worldly Wise: 13. Economist Paul Krugman is pugnacious, contrary - and often right. He forecast East Asia's crisis and he has a controversial prescription. Huw Richards reports Economist Paul Krugman...
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UK team helps to save rare bustard
ONE OF the world's most endangered birds, the Houbara bustard, has found saviours at the University of Abertay Dundee school of molecular and life sciences. Researchers at the university are battling...
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Science profits from 'hot' fossils
European palaeontologists are benefiting from the illegal side of the international fossil trade. Rare specimens of extinct life, such as Brazilian Pterosaurs and Chinese dinosaur eggs, are being...
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Tigers, tigers spurning rights
The West may believe that its concept of democracy should be applied universally but many in East Asia insist on an alternative model. Michael Leifer reports. When the Cold War ended the ideological...
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The Edward Said of the ancient world
Heresy in the University - Afrocentrism
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Saving fragile forests
David Thomas reports on the international effort to preserve the lifeblood of Vietnamese coastal communities from further destruction Between 1961 and 1971, 19 million gallons of the deadly herbicide...
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Warwick's industry turns profit from academic expertise
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links The University of Warwick is...
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Lessons closer to home
The Bangkok gathering of heads of Asian and European governments earlier this month was unusual. It took one regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN), to bring another,...
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Asian forces alter the status quo
The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm