Master of destiny
TO BRITISH-born Marc Sharpe there was a dynamism and a drive about United States businesses that he had never experienced in this country. It spurred him to save to study for an MBA at Harvard...
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Chevening road leads from Rome to London
CHEVENING scholars are postgraduate students who spend a year in a British university of their choice working on a specific research project. A total of about 2,000 scholarships a year are awarded in...
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Strong pound hits channel exchange
Stella Hughes talks to British and French graduates about Entente Cordiale scholarships DELPHINE Goldberg packed her bags and left Paris for London last week, not to start a one-year Entente Cordiale...
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High-fliers helped to Oxford
Ngaio Crequer reports on an award scheme named after Nelson Mandela's lawyer EXPORTING ideas and people to countries around the globe has been a long tradition at Oxford University. Now it is...
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Italy's love-hate relationship with Raphael
Italy probably fought hardest for Raphael, the European Commission's student exchange programme in art restoration and conservation, yet it now has the greatest problems in taking part. The country's...
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Language barriers in the seminar
Jennie Bristow examines the pros and cons of the influx of overseas students LECTURERS are preparing themselves for a new set of faces in universities at the start of the United Kingdom's academic...
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Harkness harnessed to US health policy
A CHANGE in the arrangements for Harkness fellowships are causing mid-Atlantic pique, confusion, and in some cases heart-felt grief. The outstanding people selected for the award were funded to...
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Honorary degrees
University of Exeter DD: Desmond Tutu, archbishop, prominent anti-apartheid campaigner, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. DLitt: Bridget Riley, artist; Joyce...
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Appointments
The Wellcome Trust Mike Dexter, (above) director of the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester, will succeed Bridget Ogilvie as director on her retirement next year. University of...
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Look who's over here
Over a fifth of postgraduates are overseas students. Mark Nye looks at the attractions of studying in the United Kingdom THE SCRAMBLE for a university place for Michaelmas entry is in full swing but...
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No curtain to raise
Kam Patel unearths the powerful interests that coalesced to deprive Cardiff of Zaha Hadid's award-winning opera house. To this day, the architect Zaha Hadid is at a loss to know why the Millennium...
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Nuclear family meltdown?
Alison Utley reports on new research which claims that same-sex relationships are reordering the British household. What do today's young people really want out of life? New sociological research...
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Endless points of order
The party conference season opens this year to the sound of organisational shuffling rather than ideological clashing. Richard Cockett reports as Blair prepares to rid Labour of the last rituals of...
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Swanning around on the river
Julia Hinde meets the warden of the Queen's swans, Christopher Perrins Swanning around on the river. The Queen's swan warden is rather looking forward to the next week. Surrounded by publishers'...
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Unnaturally concerned
As the list of genetically modified foods expands, so the level of consumer anxiety burgeons. Simon Midgley looks at the causes of public concern. As the list of genetically modified foods expands,...