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North Korean poverty is a result of a dearth of market opportunity, not agricultural inability, said University of Warwick Professor Hazel Smith to an audience of about thirty at Harvard’s Korea Institute yesterday...
...policies makers, and students and has already been integrated into university curriculums, as a textbook in “Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 10: Foundations of Biological Diversity” at Harvard, an introduction to environmental science class at University of Wisconsin, and in classes at the University of Warwick in England. Before the lecture, Chivian lauded Harvard’s efforts toward promoting environmental sustainability. He called Harvard’s green initiative “groundbreaking.” “It’s been exciting that educational institutions see themselves as providing an example...
...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 education is internationalizing and the competitive intensity...
Recruiting the smartest staff or students, though, is not just about pulling in cash. As part of its $400 million strategy to break into the world's top 50 universities by 2015, the University of Warwick - ranked 57th, according to the U.K. Times Higher Education Supplement list, as it approaches its 50th birthday - plans to permanently host branches of three or four overseas research universities on its site in the heart of England. Nigel Thrift, Warwick's vice-chancellor, won't say which universities it has in its sights; negotiations with North American and Asian institutions are ongoing...
Crucial in fleshing out Warwick's goals was input from its Council, the university's executive body, drawn largely from professions outside academia. Lay members, many working in business and industry, "add an enormous amount to the institution," says Thrift. Indeed, many U.S. and U.K. universities pack their governing bodies with external members; the LSE, for instance, "is, technically speaking, a company," says Howard Davies, its director. "The university has always had something like a corporate board...