Hopeful Turks aid Afghans
Turkish universities are to help in the reconstruction process for Afghanistan. Hacettepe, Bilkent and Istanbul universities have said they will provide training programmes in medicine and education...
Turkish universities are to help in the reconstruction process for Afghanistan. Hacettepe, Bilkent and Istanbul universities have said they will provide training programmes in medicine and education...
Turkish police have put university students under surveillance after the Interior Ministry ordered all student activities to be monitored. The measures include spot checks on students in bars and...
A new book has shed light on the role played by Britain in the 20th century's "forgotten genocide", which began 90 years ago this week and claimed the lives of an estimated 1 million Armenians. The...
School libraries are suffering, and even closing, as resources are cut, staff ‘redeployed’ and the internet deemed more important to learning than printed matter and professionals who can sort the...
Uzbekistan has summoned home 2,000 students from Turkey alleging that conditions are not safe enough there. However, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported an Uzbek official claiming the real reason is...
Brussels, October 2006 The president of the European Patent Office, Alain Pompidou, recently warned that for Europe to achieve its goal of having the most advanced knowledge-based economy by 2010, it...
The texts on the Rosetta Stone have long been deciphered, so why does it still hold such a fascination for both scholars and the public? wonders Karen Gold. Surely only a geeky schoolboy would have...
Faculty at Turkey's Dokuz Eylul University have finally had their choice of rector confirmed with the backing of the country's president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. The higher education authority agreed to...
Women shed unwanted hair through mint tea Hairy women could shed their unwanted growth by drinking mint tea, according to a study published. They are hirsute because they have abnormally high levels...
Two-thirds of almost 1 million students who passed Turkey's university entrance examination will not get a place because of a lack of space. The record number of disappointed students are being...
Brussels, 11 May 2006 Full text of Document 1703/06 Chairman: Mr José SILVA RODRIGUEZ; European Commission, Director General for Research 1. Adoption of the Draft Agenda 2. Approval of the...
It is time, says Alan Kramer, to revisit the role of cultural destruction in the first great conflict of 20th-century Europe Late in the evening of August 25, 1914, German troops broke into the...
Barbarism and Civilization
Journey into Islam
The mere thought of academic writing is enough to send most readers packing. It summons memories of agonisingly dull, jargon-laden, elitist mumbo jumbo that is too pedantic and specialised to matter...