WARWICK, UK: Is academic freedom affordable in a time of economic crisis? That was the topic for discussion at the annual signing of the Magna Charta Universitatum at the mother of universities, the University of Bologna, earlier this year.
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Nowadays, in country after country, policymakers have become obsessed with the need to strengthen science education. But what about the humanities - all those disciplines (literature, history, languages, and so forth) whose relevance to economic (...)
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is the most impressive collective intellectual project ever attempted - and perhaps achieved. It demands both the attention and the contribution of anyone concerned with the future of knowledge.
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