Bosnian education rises from ashes
Four years of war have devastated Bosnia's universities: thousands of students and lecturers have quit, courses are out of date, and damaged university buildings remain in disrepair. Not only does...
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EC advances on Italy over lecturers' claims
European Commission officials have denied a claim by the Italian higher education ministry that it is about to drop infringement proceedings against Italy over an issue concerning the country's 1,500...
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Paperless thesis transports past into a potential future
The subject was ancient, the style postmodern. Cornelius Holtorf gained his archaeology PhD from the University of Wales, Lampeter with a paperless thesis presented on a CD-Rom. He chose his medium...
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Out of the morass
Step through one of the internet's subject gateways and you leave the information jungle behind, says Ayala Ochert Many academics have shied away from using the world wide web after discovering that...
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Revelations in the hidden sky
WINTRAK PRO. By Paul Traufler. (+1 256 837 0084 www.hsv.tis.net/wintrak). US$69.95. Windows 95/98/NT CD. Windows 3.11 and DOS versions also available. In the early days after the launch of Sputnik,...
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Detailed storeys of a skyscraper, sauerkraut and stew
Building the Empire State
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Foreign facades on Main Street
Shaping a Nation - Architecture in the United States
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work - half treatise, half novel - that described how education could elicit the natural goodness of...
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Reel estate
Cinema and Architecture
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Revealing fabrics
Paradigms of Indian Architecture - Architecture and Independence
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Concrete facts and urban myth
Tales of the City
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Atomic truths exploded
Hiroshima's Shadow
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Mad cow chronicles
Death on the Menu - The Link: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Scrapie
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How Pasteur turned over new fields
Louis Pasteur
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The land of the germ-free
The Gospel of Germs