2nd November & Indian Indentured Immigrants This year we shall be commemorating the beginning of the great wave of indentured labourers who were brought to the island to
It may come as a surprise to many that the tutorial system, which is a distinctive feature of British higher education, is completely absent in our public higher
“We have found in our history that we cannot take political and social stability for granted, that economic and democratic development is not an inexorable march towards progress,
The mission of the University of Mauritius in the 21st Century is to disseminate and to create knowledge and to engage with society. An increase in the number
The cooperative movement in Mauritius celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2013. Ordinance 4 of 1913 was passed on 12 July 1913 ‘to provide for the constitution and control
Right from the Dutch period the worker brought to Mauritius, whether coerced, voluntarily or involuntarily, has always sought to fight for human dignity and freedom. In spite of
Can Singapore remain innovative, come up with new ideas and increase value-added services in a changing Asia and above all preserve the economic legacy of Lee Kuan Yew?
In 1968 when finally the independence of Mauritius was achieved and celebrated there was a sense of satisfaction and vindication in the offices of the Times that it
… but to be young was very heaven! “The successful implementation of the reforms is far more important than the means employed to bring them to fruition. If
The British policy of governing the empire followed strictly what they considered to be the ordering of their own society at home. As David Cannadine reminds us, race
