The long-standing enmity between Armenians and Turks could be resolved by a "reconciliation commission", which met for its first session last week. Commission members from Armenia, Turkey, Russia and...
On Moroccan campuses, revolutionary ideals have been supplanted by Islamic fundamentalism, says Hassan Bouzidi. In the heyday of the Union Nationale des Etudiants du Maroc, the beard was worn as a...
Paris High salaries and job security are no longer what future managers demand most from their careers, a survey of European management students reveals. Carried out among almost 1,500 students at 11...
Scots students step up anti-fees campaign NUS Scotland is stepping up its campaign to ensure that fees are scrapped and grants returned for UK students in Scotland and Scottish students in...
Funds halted after Johns Hopkins death Federally financed medical studies on human subjects at the Johns Hopkins University have been halted by the United States Department of Health and Human...
As 250 living Nobel laureates prepare to celebrate the centenary of the prize, Joseph Rotblat looks at key omissions in its controversial history. This year, the first of the third millennium, is the...
The Picador Book of Cricket - Cricket and Race
When Dolly the sheep was born, journalists from around the world focused their attention on her and two human researchers from the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in Scotland. Dolly was the first...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work that concerns two women writers and a dog: "It is universally admitted that the family from...
The Ingenuity Gap
Book to Screen
From: The office of the vice-chancellor To: All members of academic staff Some members of staff have apparently expressed concern about the showing of this university in the recent THES survey of the...
David Wells praises the British Library's achievements during the past 250 years, but fails to appreciate that we have not bought foreign language material comprehensively for almost 100 years (...
The articles on the research assessment exercise submissions ("Union: RAE lies skew funding", THES , June 1; "Staff lose out in bids for RAE cash" THES , July 6) rightly highlight potential anomalies...