Hymns in full swing before West arrived
A History of the Church in Africa
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Musical pacifists hit troubled times
The Biographical Tradition in Sufism - The Chishtis
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A lesson for Thwackum
Religion and Community
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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 by a novelist who committed suicide: "It was an uncertain spring. The weather, perpetually...
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Fundamentalism: just a personality type?
The Battle for God
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Substance abuse and what we get out of it
Intoxicating Minds
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From wax tablets to computers
Metaphors of Memory
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From Hittites to the hit parade
The latest edition of the Grove music dictionary contains much more on pop and non-western music as well as an online version. Hugh Wood assesses the traditional parts, while Christopher Wood...
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Global Learning: World Education Market 2001
The Global Learning supplement was published with The THES on 18 May 2001 and distributed at World Education Market (Vancouver, Canada: May 21-24, 2001). A challenge for our times With 872...
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A challenge for our times
With 872 million illiterate adults in the world, Unesco's dream of education for all is a distant one. Koichiro Matsuura details the realistic objectives ahead. A year ago, representatives from most...
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Thinkniks: trad v. fad
In educating the knowledge workers of the future, or the 'thinknik' class, e-learning efforts must put a premium on hard work and human interaction, argues Michael Zastrocky. In the past decade, the...
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Campus champs tackle heavies
Universities must act quickly to grasp the opportunities IT offers for education or risk losing market share to non-traditional providers, warns Richard Katz. Sales of CD singles fell by 14 per cent...
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Network lifting learning curve
The rise of network computing will further drive demand for e-learning, a senior Sun Microsystems executive has predicted. Kim Jones, vice-president of academic and research computing for the Palo...
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Scrolla set to boost ICT study
Three universities have joined together to set up the Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning (Scrolla), whose aims include strengthening links between online teaching researchers and the...
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Ranks of web wise burgeon in Israel
Israel is using the net to the full with its innovative learning programmes. Helena Flusfeder reports. Although the internet has widespread applications in Israeli universities, there are very few...