Guest Voices: 'Astonishing' growth of religion in China - On Faith at washingtonpost.com

Guest Voices: 'Astonishing' growth of religion in China - On Faith at washingtonpost.com: "The Tony Blair Faith Foundation has been looking at the issues of faith and globalization for three years now. We've been working with some of the world's leading universities to define and debate these vital questions academically. We started at Yale University in the United States and now have a network of seven leading research institutes, stretching from Mexico to Australia."

Features | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers

Features | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers: "Establishment of a knowledge city will help to develop Sri Lanka as a destination for investments in higher education and position the nation as a centre of excellence and regional hub for learning and innovation. It will enhance the national economic development efforts through the development of a skilled and educated workforce and the creation of new jobs."

Globalization - When did Globalization Begin?

Globalization - When did Globalization Begin?: "The World Bank states that there have been three 'waves' of globalization. The first began in 1870 and ended at the beginning of World War I in 1914. It was characterized by a reduction in trade barriers and and improvement in transportation technologies, which resulted in major migration of about 10% of the world's population. The next wave occurred from 1950 to 1980 during which multiple trade agreements occurred between developed nations which left out the developing world. The final(and current) wave of globalization(beginning 1980) in contrast has been characterized by the willingness of developed nations to remove trade barriers in order to attract foreign capital."

International Education in the Era of Globalization – The Case of Japan — The Tokyo Foundation

International Education in the Era of Globalization – The Case of Japan — The Tokyo Foundation: "What does it mean to be an effective, integrated international university in today’s globalized environment? Does it mean that the university offers courses in English and strives to be a bi-lingual community? Does it mean the campus welcomes a mixture of international and domestic students on campus? Does it mean domestic students have opportunities to study abroad? Does it mean that faculty members come from different countries, offering new pedagogical approaches to the classroom? And does it mean the curriculum acknowledges international issues in all courses?"

Africa needs science revolution, conference hears - SciDev.Net

Africa needs science revolution, conference hears - SciDev.Net: "Africa needs more global science partnerships and a new generation of scientists trained to solve the continent's pressing problem of sustainable development, according to Mohamed Hassan, executive director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).

The continent needs to set up inter-disciplinary centres of excellence in areas of science and technology critical to its economic growth and sustainable development, Hassan said in a keynote address at the fourth EuroScience Open Forum, in Turin, yesterday (6 July"

Animal Welfare: AW Home

Animal Welfare: AW Home: "A single access point for a wide range of information related to the welfare of farm animals. A participatory platform to retrieve and submit information, as well as to engage in commonly developed projects and thematic discussions."

BioOne Online Journals - Sustainability: Virtuous or Vulgar?

BioOne Online Journals - Sustainability: Virtuous or Vulgar?: "Progress in understanding and achieving sustainability requires addressing it as both a scientific and an ethical issue. If sustainability is defined as “meeting human needs in a socially just manner without depriving ecosystems of their health,” most of the words in its definition are normative or value laden. Depending on how critical normative terms such as “human needs” and “ecosystem health” are defined, sustainability could mean anything from “exploit as much as desired without infringing on the future ability to exploit as much as desired” to “exploit as little as necessary to maintain a meaningful life.” We suggest that there are five key areas of sustainability."

BioOne Online Journals - Organizing Teaching and Research to Address the Grand Challenges of Sustainable Development

BioOne Online Journals - Organizing Teaching and Research to Address the Grand Challenges of Sustainable Development: "Academic culture has not evolved sufficiently in its ability to mount adequate responses at scale and in real time to the progressively accelerating complexity that marks contemporary life. This lack of adaptive capacity is nowhere more evident than in the institutional posture of our research universities when they are confronted by the need to address grand challenges—one need only think of global climate change, air and water pollution, overpopulation, hunger and poverty, extinction of species, exhaustion of natural resources, and destruction of ecosystems"

A triumph of education and the future

A triumph of education and the future: "Around the world, education is viewed as an asset, a way to preserve culture, to build economies, to bring society the benefits of knowledge and discovery, the joys of creativity and the satisfaction gained from making a positive contribution."

Globalization; Challenges to the Equalization of Opportunities to the Disability Movement | Tom Wilt News

Globalization; Challenges to the Equalization of Opportunities to the Disability Movement | Tom Wilt News: "Human communities worldwide have tended to move gradually to develop closer associations over a long time. However, lately the speed of the movement appears to have considerably accelerated. For instance, the invention of the jet planes, the computer chip, and availability of electronic mail (email), cheap telecommunication services, huge but fast sea vessels, instantaneous financial transactions across national borders, all seem to contribute to the movement to make the globe even more mutually dependent than ever"

Part two: What international students mean to Canadian universities | University Affairs

Part two: What international students mean to Canadian universities | University Affairs: "Though the term globalization has become a clich�, there is an underlying reality that means both students and universities have reasons to look beyond their national borders. Finally, Canadian universities are lagging behind their Australian and U.K. counterparts"

University at Albany - Globalization Studies

University at Albany - Globalization Studies: "The Globalization Studies major, one of the newest programs of study at the University at Albany, is designed to help students function more effectively in the rapidly changing world of the 21st century"

Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2010, Real Numbers: The New Global Landscape of Educational Achievement

Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2010, Real Numbers: The New Global Landscape of Educational Achievement: "The New Global Landscape of Educational Achievement"

: University of Rochester News

: University of Rochester News: "New Book Explores the Consequences of English as the Dominant Language in Global Academic Journal Publishing"