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European students are border-hopping to get the best value in courses and literature. Sylvia Simmons reports. For French, German and Swiss students in the Rhine valley, one simple, user-friendly...
European students are border-hopping to get the best value in courses and literature. Sylvia Simmons reports. For French, German and Swiss students in the Rhine valley, one simple, user-friendly...
Brussels, 5 February 2003 Today in Brussels, the Commission published a Communication on the role of universities in the Europe of knowledge, as part of an initiative instigated by European Research...
Michael Roth, the author of this exceptional and wide-ranging collection of essays, is the president of Wesleyan University, which, in addition, one imagines, to being a very time-consuming job, also...
Christopher Terry welcomes a re-examination of the work of F.R. Leavis and the legacy of his controversial style of criticism
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
Academics at the University of Buenos Aires who are working without pay will benefit from a government promise to raise the university budget. Daniel Filmus, Argentina's Education Minister, agreed to...
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...
Attempts to teach only what is perceived to be relevant denies students the chance to explore life and art through literature I wonder if other subjects have the same trouble that English does? I can...
What about making your next move one that crosses the Channel? Ruth Morse has some advice for Francophiles. Ayear in Provence? Why not a year teaching in a university in Provence, or somewhere else...
What about making your next move one that crosses the Channel? Ruth Morse has some advice for Francophiles. Ayear in Provence? Why not a year teaching in a university in Provence, or somewhere else...
Brussels, 17 Sep 2004 Although the technology is still in the early stages of development, high powered distributed computing networks, known as Grids, have already become a strategic objective...
Brussels, 2 December 2004 The 2004 Descartes Prize ceremony takes place on 2 December in Prague Castle, hosted by the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus. This background note gives details...
Britain's success in exploiting academic research in biotechnology attracted envy across the Channel a few years ago, where the head of French chemical giant Rhone-Poulence decided it was time to...
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ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY. Edward Craig, editor. 8,136pp. Routledge. Pounds 1,695 (Pounds 1,995 with CD-ROM). - 0 415 07310 3. Encyclopaedia" is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as...