The Widening Gyre

The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial public benefit needs to be supported by profit-making activity, argues Martin Mills

Since 1950, the government of the Peoples’ Republic of China has sought to control the majority Buddhist religion and its leadership in Tibet as a means to ensure the integration and security of Tibetan regions within China. The age of the present Dalai Lama and the question of a possible future re-incarnation brings these issues to the fore.

Report on the causes and long-term effects of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau.

Just as incoming international companies find the PRC a difficult and challenging place to work for any prolonged period, restrictions on re