Destination USA for students
Overseas students are still flocking to the United States. Universities and colleges admitted an all-time high of almost 450,000 in the academic year 1993/94, but the rate of increase is slowing down...
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Education beyond the borders
Education, Globalisation and the Nation State - Integrating Europe Through Cooperation Among Universities - European Dimensions, Education, Training and the European Union - The Erasmus Experience
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Dusk heralds the night
Writer Taslima Nasreen, who fled Bangladesh for the West after fundamentalists threatened to put her to death for her views on the Koran, asks if we are returning to an age of barbarism. We hear, we...
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Foreign student growth slows
Australia is facing a sharp decline in the growth of its education export industry as universities compete for fee-paying students in the developing countries, writes Geoff Maslen. According to the...
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Secret of the bone cave unearthed
Archaeologists had a field day when they found remains of the oldest Europeans in Spain, but in Israel they are in trouble. Discoveries that change understanding of human evolution are a rare...
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Criminal economies of scale
TRANSNATIONAL ORGANISED CRIME Edited by Phil Williams Frank Cass, quarterly, Pounds 38.00 (individuals), Pounds 90.00 (institutions) ISSN 1357 7387 Economic analysis has made us familiar with topics...
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Princely state full of paupers' graves
India, Pakistan and the Kashmir Dispute
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Glen coup
Scotland's red deer are threatenedby a Japanese breed, Juliet Vickery reports. We have, as a nation, broadly welcomed Japanese investment in Britain but there is a growing feeling that one such...
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A president who merits his moniker
Nixon's Economy - A Tangled Web
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Events
FREDERICK DOUGLASS. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frederick Douglass's first trip to Britain, The David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University will host an international...
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Look east, we're lagging behind
Every now and then the world's attention shifts. For much of the post-war period it focused on the Third World, on Korea and Vietnam and the struggles against colonialism. In the 1980s it was the...
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Cooperative society
The International Islamic University of Malaysia is far from the intolerant institution portrayed in a recent THES article, says Subki Bin Ahmad Shabbir Akhtar made several allegations against the...
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Intellectual seeding
Ravi Dayal charts the progress of the world's third largest publisher of books in English No one quite knows how many publishers of books there are in India, but estimates place the number at about...
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The unquestionable truth?
Imagining Reality
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Cultural clues to student guidance
The presence of international students in higher education is becoming a significant economic force in the United Kingdom, especially as the battle for them intensifies with other western...