Entering the dragon

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The Chinese government have changed the rules regarding the administration of universities and have allowed the provinces more autonomy. As a result it is likely foreign academics will be able to play a more important role in academia in China. The British have not been as active in China as academics from Australia and the US. Some 6,000 Chinese students were studying in the UK during 1999, a rise of 4,000 students since 1996. Many pay for their own university education. It is predicted the Chinese market for British goods and services will reach 20 billion pounds sterling by 2002.

China, Management, Authors, Writers, International trade, Universities and colleges, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Schools, Education, International education, Spence, Jonathan

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Exposure in the ebb tide

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Former Oxford Professor John Bayley has written a book about his wife Novelist Iris Murdoch who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Murdoch has written a number of philosophy books along with 27 novels, including her Booker Prize winning novel 'The Sea.' She is now 79 years old. Murdoch has had Alzheimer's for two years which has left her with a failing memory and little speech. Bayley feels their marriage is now progressing. They have never had children. Bayley reveals he wrote the book about his wife partly to widen understanding about her condition.

Behavior, Novelists, Bayley, John, Murdoch, Iris

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A kiss and tell story

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The history and implications of the kiss are to be examined at a conference in London in July 2000. From Classical times through the centuries to the 1960s the meaning and use of the kiss have changed from a representation of power to one of intimacy.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, History, London, England, Kissing

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