Don's Diary: travels with islam
Wednesday Spend half a day in Blackwell's, catching up on the latest books on jihad . I wonder at how terms such as jihad , terror and Islamic fundamentalism have overtaken the serious debate on...
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Playing Pooh sticks on a grand scale
Frank Kingdon Ward's Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges
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U21 goes online just as market tumbles
An online university was created last week by Universitas 21, the global consortium of 18 research-intensive universities, and Thomson Learning. The launch comes in the midst of a downturn in world...
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Aga Khan unveils plans for London-based Islamic institute
An Institute of Islamic Civilisations is to be launched by the Karachi-based Aga Khan University as its first significant international initiative. The institute, which will be sited in London, aims...
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Quest for league tables' holy grail
A leading US school has embarked on a quest to find the holy grail of university league tables - how to measure accurately the academic impact an institution makes on its students. Columbia...
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Science's struggle to mould imperial subjects
'Native' scholars used to help transmit knowledge of western science to Indians, undermining the British effort to present European learning as an example of civilisation superiority, argues Michael...
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Analysis: So what are you good at?
UK universities have great brand names and are good at research but not much else, a conference heard. Alison Goddard reports Universities and colleges should play to their strengths and stop trying...
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Alliance ready to take on its rival
An international network of universities is preparing a series of special online courses largely geared at the Asian market. A meeting of the ten members of the Global University Alliance in...
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Locked in free market's embrace
India Unbound
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Sucking the life out of the past and flattening history
China and Historical Capitalism
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ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ calls for Uzbeks
Uzbekistan has summoned home 2,000 students from Turkey alleging that conditions are not safe enough there. However, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported an Uzbek official claiming the real reason is...
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Has mother nature been outwitted?
Continuing our series of Big Science Questions, Mark Buchanan asks if we are in a post-evolutionary age, and Michael Ruse looks at our role in change. It is tempting to suppose that in this modern...
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Faith that fails to heal injustice
Women and Islam in Bangladesh
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Bengal, Burke and Bertie Wooster
Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World
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Krishna didn't give a dam
Hinduism and Ecology