Suicides blamed on exam overload
The suicides of two sisters have highlighted the growing pressures facing Turkey's young people as they scramble for a coveted university place. The sisters killed themselves with a shotgun in a...
The suicides of two sisters have highlighted the growing pressures facing Turkey's young people as they scramble for a coveted university place. The sisters killed themselves with a shotgun in a...
Legislation to reform Turkey's higher education, including the dissolving of the Yok board, has been rushed through parliament, leading to protests and a 20 per cent fall in the stock market. The...
Brussels, 16 Jun 2003 The first regional meeting of the Asian Pacific organisation for cancer prevention (APOCP) will take place from 14 to 16 October in Izmir, Turkey. The conference will bring...
Carol Reed - Powell and Pressburger
Worlds Apart - The Economics of Microfinance
Brussels, 06 Jun 2003 Istanbul, Turkey, will host an international conference on recent advances in space technologies from 20 to 22 November. The conference aims to bring together the theoreticians...
Brussels, 26 Oct 2004 The member states of the United Nations (UN) have again failed to reach an agreement on the scope of a proposed ban on human cloning, with a final decision now appearing...
Some higher education institutions in Azerbaijan have banned female students from wearing headscarves on campus. The institutions, which include Baku State University and the Medical University,...
The Iraq War and Democratic Politics - The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq
A modest proposal from Mary Osborn, chair of the EU inquiry into women and science (see page 32). Asked why Portugal is the only EU nation with a respectable supply of women professors (over 30 per...
The fifth and last of the faculty-specific analyses - biomedicine - that make up The Times Higher World University Rankings agrees with our overall finding (November 5, 2004) that Harvard is the...
Inside the Neolithic Mind - The Singing Neanderthal
"Chocolate Sluggo is named after a fierce campus track coach; mango sorbet and khulfi were developed with an Indian scholar at Harvard" Toscanini's Ice Cream Cambridge, Massachusetts, US Albert...
Keekok Lee and Mary Searle-Chatterjee ask if women should be allowed to cover up in class An international bank asks you to write a reference for a student in your seminar group. You hesitate. Her...
Brussels, 3 May 2006 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) at the heart of the Commission’s job and growth initiative There is a very close link between IPR and the competitiveness of the EU...