Finding a wiser use for electric currents
Echoes down the Corridor
Echoes down the Corridor
An institute of Islamic studies is opening in Paris to carry out research into the Muslim world and provide continuing education, including courses for non academics. The Institut d'Etudes des...
Modern anthropology, the study of power in all its forms, is focusing on how elites and institutions affect individual lives and how the alienated can be empowered. Those poor and desperate enough to...
When faced with the intricacies of Islam, the British left lacks the theoretical framework for meaningful discourse, argues Stephen Chan. The recent "exchange" of views in the London Review of Books...
Week one I blame it all on Dave Harvey. Having agreed to give up television for Lent, it is already beginning to hurt. Dave, the producer of Radio 4's The Message , has chosen me as an ideal person...
Napoleon the Novelist
Risks and Reconstruction
PARIS A masters in international business management conducted entirely on the internet has been set up by the University of Picardy Jules-Verne in Amiens, France. The course in management of...
A university which relies on government sources for less than 10 per cent of its funding is something of a novelty in Europe. To find one in Turkey comes as a surprise. There are parallels between...
Warwick University archaeologists are leading the delicate operation to rescue two ancient and beautiful Byzantine mosaics discovered slowly falling into the sea on Turkey's Black Sea coast. The 1,...
Cambridge University has been accused of suppressing debate over its controversial plan to accept a Pounds 750,000 gift from arms manufacturer GKN. Cambridge's council put forward a formal proposal...
A Dutch academic has won a case at the European Court of Justice that forces European Union institutions to give detailed reasons for any refusal of access to public documents held in their libraries...
THE Turkish metal workers' union is to open its own university near Ankara. Classes at the Turkish Metalworkers' University and Union Academy will begin at the next semester if the authorities give...
Of the 170 science Nobel prizewinners alive today, 167 are men. Of other top international prizes open to be won by scientists, the Crafoord prize (Sweden) has been awarded to 38 men and no women,...
America needs to understand how the rest of the world sees it, says Tom Palaima . At times of international crisis, we Americans really need to know who we are, and how what we say and do translates...