Battle to keep colleges black
Supporters of black colleges and universities in the United States have leapt to their defence after a series of scandals and financial mishaps hit their credibility. Black colleges were once the...
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Tagore's lamp to the mind
It is not often that one accepts an invitation to deliver an address and finds it a life-altering experience. But my visit to Visva-Bharati, an Indian university founded by the great Indian mystic...
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Molecular databases go global
SCIENTISTS in Asia and Eastern Europe are plugging into the molecular biology databases of the leading industrial nations, a rich source of knowledge that could be applied in medicine and farming....
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Significance from the margins
The Conditions of Listening
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Ancestral thoughts
The Prehistory of the Mind - The Prehistory of Sex
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Speaking Volumes: Mimesis
John Fuegi on Erich Auerbach's Mimesis . It seems madly improbable that Mimesis should have been written at all. Its author was a German-Jewish intellectual and it was written in German in Istanbul...
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Scotland welcomes a cultural infusion
COMMONWEALTH THE FOUR-DAY Commonwealth heads of government meeting nestles within a dazzling array of celebratory events at Edinburgh University that began in June with a lecture from Commonwealth...
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Occidental orientations
The Mosque - Islamic Architecture
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ߣߣÊÓƵn campus for Malaysia
ߣߣÊÓƵ and Malaysia have signed a bilateral agreement covering education co-operation that is expected to see ߣߣÊÓƵn university campuses opening in the Asian nation. The agreement was signed...
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Student victory in debt crisis
Mexican students overseas have won a battle with their government to safeguard their grants from cuts in public spending programmes. When the Mexican exchange rate and foreign debt crisis broke in...
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Occident impressed
The Western Canon:
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Weed 'em and reap
Journal of Vegetable Crop Production (twice a year)
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King Unready to Dome (un)ready
Next - State of the World 1999 - The Year 1000
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Changing the rules of the game
Mastering the Infinite Game - Sun Tzu and the Art of Business
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Turn back the clock on overseas fees
Following the change of government it is timely to reflect on overseas student trends since 1980. Latest figures from the Department for Education and Employment show that since 1982 the number of...