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Roman Herzog may be Germany's president but this has not stopped him being rude about Germans, or at least about their education system. The former law professor has called for a thorough reform of...
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Eye witness
The possibility that Ireland may rejoin the Commonwealth after 50 years will increase when secretary-general, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, visits Dublin next week.Taoiseach Bertie Ahern last month signalled...
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Maize riddle sparks Chinese puzzle
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle A piece of clay pottery from a site in China may provide evidence of the earliest...
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The Asian renaissance
I note that James Boswell died 200 years ago and Robert Burns followed a year later. This leads me to reflect on something that I have always found interesting: the Scottish renaissance of the 18th...
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Of famine, genocide and slicing up brains
A century of lost lives has changed a nation, writes Adam Hochschild. When my family and I were living in Moscow some ten years ago, the only foreigners in a sombre, fortress-like apartment block, a...
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Growth in demand will change business supply
Business and management course suppliers will have to adapt to the growing shortage of top educators, predicts Paul Danos The booming global economy demands well-trained and confident business...
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Brits target tough markets abroad
The British Council is targeting new overseas higher education markets in the wake of the Southeast Asian crisis. The council's Education Counselling Service, is spending nearly Pounds 1 million on...
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One aborigine's watering hole is another's breast
The History of Cartography Volume Two, Book Three
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Australia strengthens China ties
The Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee has signed an historic exchange agreement with China. AVCC president John Niland went to Beijing to sign the agreement on behalf of Australian universities...
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Lecture series
The Legacy of Independence: South Asia 1947-1997 A series of four lectures, organised in association with The Times Higher Education Supplement, with support from City University, commemorating the...
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Prophets of doom rise for an encore
Late Antiquity
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Sit, then do the ironing
Robot toys are a Christmas favourite. They are also the testing ground for sophisticated tools that will change our lives, writes Tim Cornwell. In 1997, researchers at the Massachusetts company...
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Student's guide to praying all over the world
Atlas of the World's Religions
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Why did a chicken cross the globe?
On the Edge
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Sons of soil left to wither on the vine
Agriculture in Britain has sunk to a nadir last seen during the Great Depression. Farmers were once the bedrock of British society and a powerful voice in the land, but who now cares what becomes of...