Dutch in row over Islam
THEFOUNDINg of two Islamic study centres has stirred mixed emotions among academics and Muslims in the Netherlands. The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World is a...
THEFOUNDINg of two Islamic study centres has stirred mixed emotions among academics and Muslims in the Netherlands. The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World is a...
Paris, 09 July 2002 "Extreme weather conditions have revisited much of Europe this week, with cold and rain descending on the British Isles, snow falling on parts of France, and sweltering heat...
Plans for a medical and science park in Brno - the Czech Republic's second city - are likely to win government backing later this year. Jiri Zlatuska, rector of Masaryk University in the city,...
The first British research centre committed to the study of the privatisation of higher education has opened at Newcastle University. The founders of the E. G. West Centre say that the fact that they...
The ideas of an 18th-century English clergyman have been used by two management scientists to forecast the success of new movies with unprecedented accuracy. Two American experts have turned to the...
Censorship
The Armenians
Despite extreme heat, archaeologists converge every year from July to September on a dusty Turkish plain. Çatalhöyük has become one of the world's busiest archaeological sites, but size can have its...
Colonial Adventurism Why Creek indians were armed and trained by the British in the 1812 war Heaven, for Ross Hassig, an anthropologist on sabbatical from the University of Oklahoma, is the Public...
» Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Schubert. Random Edition (11.00 am R4). The Strand Magazine for Christmas 1897: Peter Snow consults Chris Willis of Birkbeck and others about...
Thursday, week one High up Mount Musallah in Bulgaria, home of Orpheus and scene of his dismemberment by angry Thracian women - far, far from the port-encrusted cloisters with their relentless...
Jihad - Jihad - The Shade of Swords - Inside Al-Qaeda - The Clash of Fundamentalisms
Winston Churchill's plans for a military offensive in Turkey, the activities of an 18th-century government "spy", and new perspectives on the life of Philip Larkin, are among numerous gems unearthed...
Australians pay less tax than those in comparable nations, but successive governments have spent less on public services. The result, said the National Tertiary Education Union, has been a dangerous...
Hamburg German universities must be more welcoming to foreign students, says a poll by the national student organisation Deutsche Studentenwerk (DSW) and the federal education ministry. Foreign...