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Position Notice: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Department of Education in Science and Technology
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Faculty Position in Science and Technology Education Research The Department of Education in Technology and Science at the Technion is seeking outstanding individuals for tenure track positions in the areas of Science and Technology Education Research.Candidates are expected to develop and lead vigorous research programs, collaborate with other researchers in the department or in other…

John Furedy: University of Leeds Cowardly Kow-towing to Terrorists Similar to Montreal’s Concordia’s University
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For comments on Concordia, see http://www.safs.ca/jan2005/furedy.html, And for general advice to those who think that submitting to threats is a way of avoiding them, see Kipling’s “Davengeld” (see e.g., http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/920 ; for the text of the poem, see http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/english_history/danegeld.html ; and for last stanza of this poem substitute “university” for “nation”, and the poem applies…

EXCLUSIVE TO SPME FACULTY FORUM: MATTHIAS KUENTZEL REPLIES TO UNIVERSITY OF LEED’S OFFICIAL STATEMENTS ON CANCELLATION OF HIS PRESENTATION
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Last week’s sudden cancellation of Dr. Matthias Kuentzel’s invited lecture at the University of Leeds has prompted a number of newspaper reports, letters of inquiry from academics and others from around the world and official letters and statements of Leeds University. Here is Matthias Kuentzel’s official response to the response by Leeds University to inquiries…

Alon Ben-Meir: Seizing on the Saudi Initiative
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The flurry of activity surrounding the reintroduction of the Saudi initiative at the Arab League Summit in Riyadh in late March is entirely different from the atmosphere when it was originally adopted by the Arab states during their Beirut meeting five years ago. The convergence of ominous developments in the Middle East in the wake…