Proxy wars amid the groves
Richard Clogg explains the 1920s case of the London University professor forced to quit by his Greek paymasters and why the saga may be repeated elsewhere Some years ago I looked into the...
Richard Clogg explains the 1920s case of the London University professor forced to quit by his Greek paymasters and why the saga may be repeated elsewhere Some years ago I looked into the...
Riots and Pogroms - Charred Lullabies - Leveling Crowds - The Colors of Violence
Student finances and support systems are at the centre of an intense debate again. It has echoes of the 1960s - the preoccupations then were expansion of higher education versus a threat to quality,...
Guns, Germs and Steel
Earl Kinmonth (THES, February 3) tries to discredit my views on script reform in China by accusing me of being a decrepit "believer in Mao". Obviously, it is not I but Kinmonth who "seems to be...
THE WELLCOME TRUST ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TROPICAL DISEASES Edited by F. E. G. Cox Wellcome Trust, 452pp, Pounds 35.00 ISBN - 1869835 86 7 As a scientific speciality, tropical medicine is barely 100...
THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDICINE Edited by Roy Porter Cambridge University Press 400pp, Pounds 24.95 ISBN - 0 521 4412117 When I was a medical student in the 1950s a distinguished...
Australia is facing a huge expansion in the number of fee-paying foreign students seeking places over the next 15 years, according to a new survey. The study predicts a five-fold increase in overseas...
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...
Inhuman States
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...
The Cambridge Ancient History
The Economy of Ireland - Economic Growth in Europe since 1945 - The Stateless Market - Managing The Economy In The 1960s - The Politics of European Integration - Integrating Southern Europe -...
Economics is the classic case of the emperor without clothes. But what of the emperor's tailors - the practitioners of the dismal science? The economic rationalists of academe are the very ones who...
The Mosque - Islamic Architecture