Word: peering
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Germany: Easing the burden of chronic disease; strengthening peer review...
...committee’s recommendations for Harvard, which came to be known as the Brown Report, were released in 1955 and stipulated a wide-ranging series of reforms. Comparing Harvard to a number of peer institutions, the committee developed specific plans for the school, from the small-scale name change of the Department of Art History to the ground-breaking call for an increased number of theater courses and a design department. These changes would “give the experience of art its rightful place in liberal education,” wrote Pusey in the report. To accompany...
...decades, they have been a familiar sight in the sun-kissed Indian state of Kerala or the country's crumbling eastern metropolis of Kolkata. The somber portraits of dead white men - a bearded Marx, a bespectacled Lenin, and Stalin, his moustache bristling - peer down at passers-by from banners strung up over palm trees or street-corner billboards, accompanied by the less-hallowed visages of local comrades. India's Communists have been key players in the hurly burly of the world's largest democracy, dominating the ballot box in states like West Bengal, where Kolkata is the capital, and where...
...reductions in lunch funding for freshman academic advisers, likely leading to reductions in “number of lunches people have with their advisees,” the document suggests. A year-old program for students to discuss research opportunities with faculty over lunch will also be slashed. The peer advising fellows program will go virtually untouched, and there is no indication that the $1000 stipend for advisors will be cut. Funds allocated for study breaks—$20 per semester for every advisee—also are not mentioned. Last year, funding for PAF programming...
...committee formed a commission in 2007 to formally study Cambridge’s sixth through eighth grades, especially the problems of small peer groups, limited opportunities for faculty collaboration, and a shortage of subject-specific teachers in some schools...