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The article discusses the economic policies of Great Britain following the India Mutiny of 1857, which cost the British an estimated 42 million pounds. Scottish political economist the Right Honourable James Wilson was sent to Kolkata (present day Calcutta), India to enact financial reforms which included introducing paper currency and enacting an income tax system in British colonial India. Wilson died in India in 1860 and biographical information about him is presented.

Provides a comprehensive listing and summary of research relating to literacy policy and practice. Abstracts of research findings; Project applying ethnographic-style methods to the training of literacy facilitators who teach literacy to women in rural India; Project commissioned by the Local Government Association to produce 12 case portraits, each focused on an individual learner and covering all age ranges, to illustrate various types of local authority support for a range of learning needs; Paper which provides an up-to-date analysis of the state of early childhood education in Great Britain, both in terms of policy and research outcomes.

The debate over "offshoring" has been brewing since a study by Forrester, a research group, in 2002 claimed that 3.3m white-collar American jobs (500,000 of them in IT) would shift offshore to countries such as India by 2015. Stephen Roach, the chief economist at Morgan Stanley, talks about a "new and powerful global labour arbitrage" that has led to an accelerating transfer of high-wage jobs to India and elsewhere. He reckons this is adding to the bias towards jobless recoveries in western economies. Multinationals may in future do original R&D in low-cost places, but for the moment most of the jobs on the move are the paper-based back-office ones that can be digitalised and telecommunicated anywhere around the world, plus more routine telephone inquiries that are increasingly being bundled together into call centres. The offshoring business remains predominantly English-speaking. It is dominated by American and British companies outsourcing their internal operations to third parties in places such as Ireland, Canada and South Africa, but most of all in India. The main advantage of shifting business operations to India and similar low-cost countries comes from a combination of lower wages and the improvement in the quality and price of international telecommunications. But the benefits of offshoring are not confined to lower costs. For one thing, offshoring allows companies to work round-the-clock shifts, ferrying data back and forth from one place to another as the sun sets. For another, it allows them to rethink the way they solve IT problems.

Presents news briefs on ecology as of October 1, 2005. Decrease in the number of woodland flower species in Great Britain between 1971 and 2001; Information on the willingness of the Staffordshire County Council, in England to pay someone a salary of £30,000 a year to tell people in the area to turn lights and computers off; Decision of government in Mumbai, India to ban plastic bags in a bid to stop the flooding in the city.

The article examines the trend in open access (OA) publishing in 2006. During a keynote address at the Internet Librarian International Conference, Danny Quah from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Great Britain asserted that scholarly publishing was an economic anomaly. Blackwell Publishing has released a best practices white paper on ethics in scholarly journal publishing. An op-ed piece in the November 1, 2006 issue of Indian newspaper The Hindu provides an overview of the OA movement.