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Footprints in stolen sand
When you're lying on that beach in Belize congratulating yourself that as an ecotourist you're not damaging the environment and are helping the local economy, think again, says Rosaleen Duffy. When...
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Dull star shows it's really hot stuff
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun - Nearest Star
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Banal Catalans and Bossi Italians
National Identities
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Multi-storied pasts
The Archaeology of Elam
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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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Elite offensive
Student recruitment efforts worldwide are suffering from crises in the Middle East and Asia An elite group of 17 British research universities is giving a series of public lectures in Southeast Asia...
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Loneliness of overseas students at Christmas
Loneliness is the biggest problem faced by foreign students forced to spend the Christmas holidays in this country, according to Chris Ng, international student secretary at the University of...
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The painful loss of white prestige
Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Second World War
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In Everyman's footsteps
Geneticist Luca Cavalli-Sforza says there is no scientific basis for race. Now his latest project has been attacked for bigotry. Ayala Ochert reports. US President Bill Clinton was full of praise...
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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...
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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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Asian recruitment crash is self-inflicted
British universities rely too heavily on students from Southeast Asia. They must spread their net wider to avoid risk, says Marcel van Miert THE SLUMP in student recruitment from Southeast Asia has...
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Super-fast link makes history
A historic high-speed computer link between the Australian National University and institutions in Japan will begin operating later this month. It will be the first time that an Australian academic...
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Analysis: So what are you good at?
UK universities have great brand names and are good at research but not much else, a conference heard. Alison Goddard reports Universities and colleges should play to their strengths and stop trying...