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...lucky enough to figure among the alumni of the University of Oxford, you're likely to have heard the news: your place of learning needs cash. Lots of it. In late May, Oxford launched the most ambitious fund-raising drive ever undertaken by a European university, aimed at boosting its coffers by at least $2.5 billion. The eager among you have chipped in already - helping Oxford to more than $1 billion so far - but there are many that haven't. Still need convincing? "The task before us is to guarantee Oxford's future pre-eminence," announced Vivien Duffield, chairman...
...America to China for the smartest students and staff, universities across the country are rethinking fund raising. The need is obvious: investment in British higher education stood at 1.1% of GDP in 2004, according to the most recent data from the OECD, while the U.S. spent 2.9%. From medieval Oxford and Cambridge to ambitious modern universities like Warwick, institutions are slowly sharpening their competitive edge. As worldwide college entry rates and numbers of students learning overseas soar, "no matter which way you look at it," says Heather Bell, appointed last year as Oxford's first director of international strategy, "higher...
...stretch." Private donations invested by Yale University are currently worth some $23 billion; the endowment fund of rival Harvard is $35 billion. Dozens of other American universities boast funds valued at more than $1 billion. Even Britain's wealthiest universities are poor by comparison. The central endowment fund at Oxford is about $1.3 billion, and Cambridge's stands at roughly $2 billion. (The universities' individual colleges - Oxford has 39, Cambridge 31 - separately hold endowments worth a total of $11 billion.) At London's Imperial College, one of the world's best for scientific research, funds amount to around $115 million...
...According to the Oxford dictionary, obese means "grossly fat," and gross means "repulsive." No wonder parents are reluctant to accept that their child may be obese. The negative connotations of our terminology for overweight and obesity undermine efforts to help parents grapple with the implications of obesity for their children. My steadygrow program (www.steadygrow.com) offers an alternative, inclusive terminology based on weight zones A0 to A3+, the goal being A1. Wider use of this terminology will revolutionize our ability to communicate healthy weight messages to parents and children. Dr. Felicity Breen, Havelock, New Zealand...
...large crowd, which lined one of the world’s most prestigious fields, was far from disappointed. After witnessing a narrow 4-3 Harrow victory and a 4-0 win for Oxford, the Crimson seemed to have the match locked up, only to see the Bulldogs come storming back...