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Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. Future of Democracy: cancelled" was the...
Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. Future of Democracy: cancelled" was the...
Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. I once went to visit a physicist in his...
Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. Art history, says Carol Richardson of...
As wolf populations multiply, so do attacks on people and livestock. Steve Farrar reports on a clash between academics and 'wolf huggers' over how to respond. James Howell caught a fleeting glimpse...
John Davies selects from the broadcasting menu (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week A lot gets packed into the 90 minutes of The Holocaust on Trial (Saturday 7.15 C4). Not only does it...
Everyone has the genetic ability to do maths, claims Keith Devlin. So why don't most of us use it? How's your maths? Most people assume that it takes a special kind of brain to be able to do...
Arab students demonstrated against the government last week at the Hebrew University and at Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion universities, in sympathy with their colleagues at Haifa University, who have been...
Greece's new education secretary, Petros Efthymiou, has called on the academic community to enter an open dialogue to find solutions for the problems besetting Greek higher education.
The university of Padua is leading Italy's universities in an online project, Thesis, aimed at eliminating plagiarism of theses by both students and professors. The universities of Bologna, Siena,...
(Photograph) - Bolivian university students armed with slingshots clash with police in La Paz in five days of protests that led to the declaration of a state of emergency and suspension of...
The universities' quality watchdog has mounted a robust defence of the Quality Assurance Agency, telling MPs that the agency's critics are mostly "elitists", writes Phil Baty. In a pre-emptive strike...
Napier University fears it will lose up to Pounds 3 million in the coming year because of problems in student recruitment and retention, writes Olga Wojtas. It is aiming to shed 55 of its 1,800 posts...
(Photograph) - Students and staff at Glasgow Caledonian University are developing a biodiesel car that runs on sunflower oil, or even chip shop oil. They displayed a working model at the Edinburgh...
Monday Wake up in state of disorientation in the Transylvanian town of Sibiu. Turn over and rumple Terry Eagleton's Illusions of Postmodernism, which appears to have served as a pillow. Join Mark...
Argentina's national deaf-mutes' association has opened the country's first school of Argentinian sign language in Buenos Aires, the Jose Antonio Terry institute.