Uneven results of a colonial legacy: the universities of Singapore and Malaya have gone in very different directions since their separation in 1962

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Although the universities of Singapore and Malaysia share a common ancestry, they are very different. The National University of Singapore has plans for a new industry-based research institute, and its glossy prospectuses promote executive degree programmes. The University of Malaya does not have links with world-class universities or billion-dollar companies, and only the Institute of Advanced Studies is a state of the art complex. The two universities were previously part of the University of Malaya.

Singapore, Schools, Malaysia

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Harry's horror story

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A Chinese labour camp survivor Harry Wu, discusses events leading up to his arrest in 1960, after speaking out against the Soviet invasion of Hungary some years earlier. The Chinese labour camps, or Laogai, continue to thrive as factories, often producing children's toys for the West. Wu talks about how he was asked to each the camp commander's two daughters, and how later the government asked him to lecture at the Geoscience University. Wu believes the West should do more to protest about the laogai.

China, Authors, Writers, History, Works, Chinese history

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Gotcha! Auntie nabs 'wimp' wonder

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Jean Aitchison, Rupert Murdoch professor of language and communication at Oxford, will be the next speaker at the Reithian Lectures. Aitchison won a scholarship to Harvard and in 1965, moved to the London School of Economics to teach linguistics. Aitchison feels that even though so many ethnic languages in today's society are becoming non-existent, they are receiving less attention than a much fewer number of plants and animals.

Language and languages, Speeches, lectures and essays, Ethnicity, Aitchison, Jean

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