Looking eastwards for links to three cultures
Aegean Art and Architecture
Aegean Art and Architecture
The religious headscarves controversy that has dominated Turkish universities for months has spread to the formation of the new government. Former prime minister and centre-right leader Tansu Ciller...
Persia and the West
WHITE NOISE: an A-Z of the Contradictions in Cyberculture. By Andrew Calcutt. Macmillan, 192pp, Pounds 40.00 - ISBN 0 333 69955 6. Calcutt, commissioning editor for Channel Cyberia, figures that it...
THE number and proportion of "new" Danes - immigrants and refugees from non-European Union countries and their children - entering higher education in Denmark is growing. Figures from the University...
Thousands of Turkish students have demonstrated against restrictions on Islamic dress enforced by Istanbul University. Protests continued this week despite a climbdown by Kemal Alemdaroglu, the...
William Saunderson-Meyer reports on the country's world competitiveness rankings There are regular bouts of national breast-beating by South Africans when surveys such as the latest World...
SCIENTISTS fear the spread of avian flu in Nigeria after cases were diagnosed by three university-based doctors, Tunde Fatunde writes. This month 1.2 million birds contaminated by the avian flu were...
The University of Malta plans to open an international university near the centre of Rome. Students will pay about Pounds 7,500 a year to attend the Link Campus University of Malta, where they will...
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
Napoleon and Persia
HINDU and Sikh children worry less about celebrating Christmas than some youngsters who are devout Christians, according to research. In-depth interviews with young people from different ethnic...
Turkey Turkey's admissions system is centralised and highly competitive, writes Jennifer Currie. Every high school leaver is entitled to sit the standardised university entrance exam in June, which...
A contract of cooperation signed between a Bulgarian and a Macedonian university has caused a furore because it implicitly recognises the two "languages" of the once-united country. The rector of the...
British Foreign Policy During the Curzon Period, 1919-24