Egypt
The Guardian (Craig Scott)
- Fresh Graduates Promised Employment At Supreme Council Of Antiquities
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following several meetings with temporary staff at the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and its top officials, SCA secretary general Mostafa Amine today met fresh graduates of the Faculty of Archaeology and restoration...
- Papyrological Institute At The University Of Michigan 1 July- 31 July 2009
In July 2009, the Department of Classical Studies and the Graduate Library at the University of Michigan will host a Papyrological Institute for advanced graduate students and junior faculty in Ancient History, Classics, Egyptology, Byzantine Studies...
- Reconstruction Of A Mummy's Face
stv.tv With photograph. A reconstruction of a mystery Egyptian mummy's face is among exhibits at Dundee University's first Forensic and Medical Art graduate show. The work is by one of five students who have completed what is the first degree...
- Nyu Hires Renowned Classicist
http://tinyurl.com/2naj5p (chronicle.com)"New York University has taken a page from the empires of antiquity by carrying off a prize from a rival kingdom. The prize is a renowned professor at Columbia University who, in an announcement expected today,...
- New Uk Based Academic Journal
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/index.htm The first issue (Autumn 2006) of a new academic journal, The Papers of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity from the University of Birmingham, is now online. "The Rosetta journal is aimed at postgraduates...
Egypt
What to do with a degree in Classics
The Guardian (Craig Scott)
As experts warn the ongoing cuts in the public sector could result in record levels of graduate unemployment; despondent graduate jobseekers may find comfort in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Of course, Nietzsche was a great philosopher, but not many people know he originally studied classics; it was only after a book he authored on the subject was rubbished by a rival that he switched disciplines.
For today's classics graduates, Nietzsche's famous quote may be particularly relevant. Six months after leaving university, only 51.6% of 2008 classics graduates were in employment compared with 61.5% of graduates in other subjects.
- Fresh Graduates Promised Employment At Supreme Council Of Antiquities
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following several meetings with temporary staff at the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and its top officials, SCA secretary general Mostafa Amine today met fresh graduates of the Faculty of Archaeology and restoration...
- Papyrological Institute At The University Of Michigan 1 July- 31 July 2009
In July 2009, the Department of Classical Studies and the Graduate Library at the University of Michigan will host a Papyrological Institute for advanced graduate students and junior faculty in Ancient History, Classics, Egyptology, Byzantine Studies...
- Reconstruction Of A Mummy's Face
stv.tv With photograph. A reconstruction of a mystery Egyptian mummy's face is among exhibits at Dundee University's first Forensic and Medical Art graduate show. The work is by one of five students who have completed what is the first degree...
- Nyu Hires Renowned Classicist
http://tinyurl.com/2naj5p (chronicle.com)"New York University has taken a page from the empires of antiquity by carrying off a prize from a rival kingdom. The prize is a renowned professor at Columbia University who, in an announcement expected today,...
- New Uk Based Academic Journal
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/index.htm The first issue (Autumn 2006) of a new academic journal, The Papers of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity from the University of Birmingham, is now online. "The Rosetta journal is aimed at postgraduates...