Royalty's rhyme and reason
The death last week of the Queen Mother was seen by many as marking the end of an era. But Declan Quigley argues that while the modern monarchy may have lost much of its influence, for many it...
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In the information wars, we are on the front line
"We believe we have the right to create something new." That is how one student activist described the philosophy of Otpor (Resistance), the Yugoslav student movement that played a key role in...
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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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God still in history's top ten
Social history is more popular than political history, with economic history coming a distant third. Ecclesiastical and religious history are pursued by more historians than gender-based approaches...
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Not past his sell-by date
Recently retired academic Roy Porter tells Christopher Wood why we - and his bank manager - can look forward to more books. When writing about the historian Roy Porter, the convention is to refer to...
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Report uncovers HE bribes system
TBILISI Widespread corruption is one of the biggest obstacles to reform in Georgia, according to a World Bank report on university education in the former Soviet republic. A survey carried out at...
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Asian flu spawns antibodies
When it became obvious about a year ago that certain Asian currencies were not going to regain their previous strength, several countries took drastic steps to stop sending students to study in the...
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Cambridge ventures east
MALAYSIA is to set up a Commonwealth University near Kuala Lumpur in a joint venture with Cambridge University, writes David Jobbins. Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Adbul Razak, the Malaysian education...
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Degree unity sparks friction
The move towards a common European higher education system is happening faster than many people realise, delegates to Salamanca 2001, the Convention of European Higher Education Institutions, heard...
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Emperors need their voices
The Cambridge Ancient History
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Occidental overstretch reversed by microchips
Twentieth Century
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New life for Asian culture
AS A young student, I enjoyed courses that introduced me to ancient civilisations, but I never expected these civilisations to return to centre stage in my lifetime. We all paid our respects to...
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The THES diary
Old verbs gotta go We seem to be losing something of our sense of obligation, according to research on changes in grammar since 1961. A database being compiled at Lancaster University shows striking...
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Ex-Soviet states quit science academy
The countries of Central Asia are dismantling their Soviet science structures. Last year, Turkmenistan quietly dissolved its Academy of Sciences. Now Kazakhstan plans to do the same. The Soviet...
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CryoSat – a satellite with an icy mission
Paris, 08 February 2002 On 8 February the ESA Director of Earth Observation, José Achache, signed the contract confirming that Astrium will build the new European environmental and climate satellite...