The fact that America's bestseller lists feature works written by academic authorities amongst the ghost-written memoirs and celebrity suck-up jobs should be cause for rejoicing.

ECONOMIST: Celebrity professors are a good thing. Really

Academic authorities, first at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and then at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, were aware of his low boredom threshold and let him rove between his native chemistry, physics and medicine, knowing that if this professor was left to himself he might well produce something extraordinary.

ECONOMIST: Paul Lauterbur | The

The inclusiveness, universality, and indivisibility of Shariah are not just evidenced by the published work of the classical and contemporary Shariah authorities on the one hand and the secular academic scholars who treat Shariah and its jurisprudence as a discipline for study on the other.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shariah��s Black Box

In some universities the authorities have delayed registration of students for the new academic year.

ECONOMIST: Iran's dissenting students

Labour rebels, who fear greater freedom from local authorities could mean a "back-door" return to academic selection at age 11, want a national code on admissions to be made legally binding.

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