FORCES FOR CHANGE IN THE GOVERNANCE OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES

Government control of colleges and universities has been increasing in recent years. The challenge for higher education is how to make institutions properly accountable but less controlled by government. The experience in this regard in the United Kingdom and the United States is compared. The danger in both nations is that left unchecked, control will leave universities resembling regulated public utilities. American and British academics can learn from each other on how to avoid such a fate.     

PERCEPTIONS OF AND RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCENE FLOODING OF THE NORTH SEA LOWLANDS

This paper explores how the drastic landscape changes that took place in the North Sea basin during the Holocene affected the lives of those dwelling in that area. Previous contributions to the discussion of the Holocene inundation of the North Sea have tended to concentrate on the timings. This paper discusses the ways people could have perceived and responded to these events, emphasizing that climate change should not be viewed apart from social factors. It is also argued that sea-level rise was not something externally imposed on communities but an integral part of their world.     

欧美国家露营旅游发展及其对中国的启示

露营是符合休闲时代旅游者心理需求的一种旅游,更是当今时代的一种时尚趋势。国内露营旅游及露营地的发展也逐渐受到政府、企业、学者以及旅游者的关注。本文对欧美露营旅游的相关研究进行了梳理,系统的阐述了欧美露营地发展及研究现状。总结了欧美露营旅游在露营地规划建设、经营管理方面的特色,发现其露营旅游产品呈现出集观光与休闲、个性与新颖、探险与刺激等功能相结合的趋势,服务活动也逐渐趋于多样化。在此基础之上对中国露营旅游发展进行思考,期待为中国露营地的规划建设以及经营管理提供参考。     

COAGULATING CATEGORIES: A REPLY TO RESPONSES

… ideologies of race define both white and black peoples, just as gender ideologies define both women and men. Thus, while ‘experience’ is an enabling focus in the classroom, unless it is explicitly understood as historical, contingent, and the result of interpretation, it can coagulate into frozen, binary, psychologistic positions (Mohanty, 1990: 195).