After our visit to Turkey last summer, we spent a few days in London before heading home.  The U.K. has as much of a deficit problem as the United States and the conservative David Cameron had just become PM.  One night we returned from a play – All My Sons – (superb!) [...]

This column by Rita Mishra, expresses her views on the opposition of  Vedanta University in Orissa, India.

ANCRE, the National Alliance for Coordination of Research for Energy, had been created by the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Oil Institute. In addition to the founding organisations, universities will collaborate in ANCRE's activities, as well as about 10 other public research centres.

As the lingering economic downturn weighs heavily on household budgets, private colleges in rural areas are enjoying a surge in their number of enrollments, it's been learned.

Tulane University, St. Norbert College, and Pace Law School have partnered with Varsity Outreach to create Facebook Applications for the college admissions process. The Facebook Applications create a community where prospective and admitted students can build connections with each other, with current students, and with admissions staff. And they never even have to leave Facebook.