Noah's Ark case leaves professor high and dry
LAST April, when the Federal Court in Sydney began hearing what became known across Australia as the "Noah's Ark case", Justice Ronald Sackville asked, "Where will we start?". The senior counsel for...
LAST April, when the Federal Court in Sydney began hearing what became known across Australia as the "Noah's Ark case", Justice Ronald Sackville asked, "Where will we start?". The senior counsel for...
Foreign qualifications such as the German Abitur or French Baccalaureat could be rated against British exam grades in a new tariff of student achievements. The University and Colleges Admissions...
The Geological Society conference on volcanoes, earthquakes and archaeology THE RISE and fall of many ancient societies may have been due to earthquakes, according to a Stanford University researcher...
Witness to History - Body Horror
A revamped Eureka, which aims to give Europe's industry an edge over the US, is likely to embrace defence research, says Kam Patel Universities could be the big winners from a rethink of the Pounds...
AFRICA. The appointment of the University of Botswana's new vice-chancellor - the third since it was founded in 1982 - has caused controversy because she was recruited from outside southern Africa....
Turkey is in the grip of growing student unrest over the imposition of higher tuition fees by the national university administration, YOK. The disturbances are the worst the country has experienced...
University of Southampton DSc: David Rhind, incoming vice-chancellor of City University, director-general of the Ordnance Survey, visiting professor in the university's department of geography; The...
Oxford academics are up in arms over government immigration policy. At their head is philosopher Michael Dummett, who argues that recent asylum seekers, including students fleeing persecution, have...
The Rise of Birds
Contemporary Europe and the Atlantic Alliance
Tatarstan, an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation, has acquired its first privately funded higher educational institution -- the Muhammadia Islamic University, based in the capital,...
Monday Lazy Cypriot winter's morning: relaxing in my over-grown garden. Weather is mild and clear. I finish reading Dervish, the Making of Modern Turkey by journalist Tim Kelsey. Very enjoyable, if...
The Good Listener: Helen Bamber
Corhyn Horsfall from Broughton Hall High School in Liverpool is missing two weeks' holiday in Turkey to attend an Oxford University science summer school. "It's been worth it so far - it's been such...