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New Zealand’s Best Brains Bound For Britain
Auckland :: New Zealand | 2 days ago
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The scholarships will enable Anna Dare of Auckland, Ashley Easter of Waikato and Nathalie Saurat, an Otago University graduate from Katikati, to undertake doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge next year. Nine scholars were short listed for the...
Tags: New Zealand, Woolf Fisher Trust, Woolf Fisher Scholarship, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Waikato, Ashley Easter, Anna Dare, Nathalie Saurat, Auckland, Waikato, Fisher & Paykel, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Woolf Fisher, University of Otago, Health Medical Pharma, Education
Oxbridge selection 'should be on background'
Oxford :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Research conducted by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) has said that the prestigious institutions are "reluctant" to discriminate in favour of students from more disadvantaged backgrounds because they do not want to become involved in "social...
Tags: Higher Education Policy Institute, social engineering, United Kingdom, Oxford, University of Oxford, Coimbra Group, Meritocracy, Oxbridge, Affirmative action, University of Cambridge, Education, Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Oxbridge rivalry, English culture, University College London, Russell Group
Next Stop: Mars...
The biggest hurdle we have in getting to other planets is the need for oxygen... Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have built a small reactor (1 meter in height) that will produce BREATHABLE Oxygen from lunar rocks... An...
Tags: Oxygen, University of Cambridge, Mars, Moon, Lunar project
Microsoft couple are awarded honorary degrees
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility Bill Gates was awarded an honorary degree at Cambridge University yesterday in recognition of his work as a philanthropist and businessman. The Microsoft chairman â believed to be the world's richest man with an estimated fortune topping £20 billion...
Tags: Cambridge University, University of Cambridge, Billionaire Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation, honorary degrees, honorary doctors, Melinda Gates, gates foundation
Stephen Hawking, 67, admitted to hospital
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility LONDON: Physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of "A Brief History of Time" who is almost completely paralysed by motor neurone disease, has been urgently admitted to hospital, Cambridge University said on Monday. Hawking, 67, was taken by ambulance to...
Tags: Cambridge University, cambridge universe, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Hospital, professor hawking, Stephen Hawking, Addenbrooke's Hospital, physicist stephen, brief history, completely paralyzed
Book sheds light on young Darwin
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Charles Darwin scholars know a little more about the scientist's days as a student due to the recent discovery of some dusty old books in a storage room at the University of Cambridge. The six leather-bound books, discovered within the past year, include...
Cambridge University chiefs defend 'elitist' application hurdles
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Cambridge chiefs defended their decision to demand an A* grade at A level for admission by saying that they could no longer judge effectively the merits of students with plain A grades. Geoff Parks, director of admissions at the University of Cambridge,...
Tags: tuition fees, University of Cambridge, Cambridge University, Universities UK, universities chiefs, universities vice, higher fees
Smaller universities get more money at Oxbridge’s expense
Oxford :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility The country’s top universities are getting some of the smallest increases in state funding next year, as money is redistributed to pockets of excellence in smaller institutions. Four institutions – the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge,...
Cambridge shoe-thrower appears in court
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility British authorities say a student accused of throwing his shoe at China's premier has apologized but pleaded not guilty to a charge of public disorder. Martin Jahnke, 27, a German pathology student at Cambridge University, pleaded not guilty Monday in...
Tags: Cambridge University, Chinaâ, Wen Jiabao, University of Cambridge, Martin Jahnke, Britainâ, Great Britain, premier wen
RAE: Cambridge is UK's top university
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility Cambridge is UK's top research university Oxbridge and London universities to get most academic research funding after winning excellence race Cambridge has beaten Oxford in a seven-year race to become the UK's top university, an evaluation of British...
Tags: University of Cambridge, Oxford
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