The campus name game
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the habit of naming everything, from university libraries to landings, after people
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the habit of naming everything, from university libraries to landings, after people
The academy has long been a haven for obsessives, but now its emphasis on teamwork would ill suit socially inept geniuses such as Paul Dirac, writes Matthew Reisz
A coalition of the willing is battling legal, logistical and technical obstacles to archive the riches of the mercurial World Wide Web for the benefit of future scholars. Zoë Corbyn reports
The symbolism of water in religion is one of the subjects of debate at the Water and Civilisation conference, organised by the Water History Association. Academics will discuss how particular water...
Stephen Phillips investigates the elusive world of bogus internet degrees and finds customers in high placesTo judge by the picture on its homepage, Robertstown University was grand, palatial even....
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, was awarded an honorary doctorate at a special ceremony at the House of Lords. UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER Tom Foley, former speaker of the US House of...
Are you obsessed with a 'baggy monster' or has a photocopied pamphlet sparked your passion for a whole new area of research? To kick off our new weekly series, leading scholars explain which books...
French students and school-leavers are being invited to become the first users of the Senate's new World Wide Web site to voice opinion on the problems affecting undergraduate university courses. The...
How do you begin to find what you want on the Net? Delia Venables provides some starting points. What will I find on the Internet of interest to me? This is a difficult question to answer, since...
An interdisciplinary tour of conflict in all its shades and guises grips Robert Eaglestone
Brussels, 19 March 2002 In a drive to gear up research on genomics - the study of genes and their function - the European Commission has awarded €39.4 million to three large research projects. The...
PARIS Former French interior minister Charles Pasqua has agreed to share some of the resources of his regional council's private "university" with the public sector. However, state university...
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