The proper application of overwhelming force
Asia continues its progress towards superpower status on a wave of investment, says Phil Baty. Is Asia the next higher education superpower? This is the question posed in the title of a new book...
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New spins on the web
HELPING to judge the 1997 UCISA Web Awards was an eye opener. I thought I knew fairly well what British academics are doing on the web. But impressive new sites had appeared. Familiar ones had grown...
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Bleeding-edge web journal with wires attached
World Wide Web Journal Edited by Rohit Khare O'Reilly and Associates Published four times a year US $75.00; Canada and Mexico $81.00; Europe, Africa, Central and South America $105.00; Asia,...
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How two vice chancellors see it
John Hay, vice chancellor of the University of Queensland: "HECS is a reasonable scheme. On the whole, it addresses the needs of first-degree students. The biggest problem is that all students pay...
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Stories across a continent
Kunapipi Journal of Post-colonial Writing
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Familiar estrangement
D. H. Lawrence - D. H. Lawrence
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Channel to wider horizons
When I graduated from University College London in 1959, virtually the only non-British students I had met were from the Commonwealth and North America, and it was mostly to the latter that we went...
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Teesside VR centre forges business links
A Pounds 2.3 million virtual reality centre serving students and local industries will be housed in the latest showpiece building to rise on the formerly down-at-heel campus of the University of...
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Drabble routed by Americans
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
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Borders open to Net study
All countries in the Asia-Pacific region now rank "internationalisation" high on their economic agendas and see universities as playing a crucial role. According to Ken McKinnon, former president of...
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An end to human wrongs?
Crimes against Humanity
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Shephard raid that went wrong
I recently heard Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, on the BBC World Service attempting to justify a reduction of school funding and the resulting deterioration of the teacher/pupil...
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Cambridge don rattles deans
CONTROVERSY continues to dog the Australian government's appointment of a committee to advise on the future of higher education for the next 20 years. Deans of education have called for the sacking...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Arrive in Hong Kong. It has been three years since I returned to the United Kingdom after 18 years in Hong Kong and a year since my last visit. Red flags proclaim China's ownership. Later this...
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Findings from the AAAS
Julia Hinde reports from the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California Gum disease linked to premature births US scientists have provided what may be...