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Article of The Telegraph, "Good universities are worth paying" for 19 March 2010
Any attempt to link a degree in history, classics or philosophy to the "utility"
of our commercial future misses the point of university education.
Something of world historical significance happened this week. Chris Patten ... that the cap must come off university tuition fees if our best establishments are to remain internationally competitive.
Universities are having to subsidise their students to the tune of thousands of pounds each per year, and the cash is starting to run out. The alternative to higher fees is many fewer places, and quite possibly fewer universities...
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of Ray B. Williams of The National Post (Canada), "Why a Liberal Arts degree can best prepare business leaders", 17 March, 2010.
...The solution to the problem of business school programs in preparing leaders and managers may lie in returning to the concept of a Liberal Education.
The term "Liberal Education" was first used in classical Greek and Roman times, chosen to emphasize the fact that it helped people deal with their rulers critically. Through time, a liberal education was thought to help a person become wise. Does a broad, idealistic, liberating education also prepare a person to be valuable to a company? Many business leaders argue that it does. The workplace has changed. Workers no longer stay in one company doing the same job until retirement and most young Generation Y workers today are not reticent to question authority...  Article of The Telegraph, "Good universities are worth paying" for 19 March 2010 Any attempt to link a degree in history, classics or philosophy to the "utility" of our commercial future misses the point of university education. Something of world... |
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Tell
Us Your $1 Million Idea
(Submissions for this
unique investment opportunity will be accepted through 18 April, 2010. The winner will be announced in
June of 2010)
Nokia?s Calling All
Innovators competition has always been about trying to find the best big
ideas for mobile applications from developers around the world. This
year, Nokia is taking that desire to find big ideas to a whole new
level. We?re looking to invest in an idea that is worth $1 million!
Nokia?s Growth Economy Venture Challenge will provide a
venture capital investment in the winning proposal of $1 million (USD).
Bear in mind, this is not a gift, grant or prize. It?s an investment
aimed at creating a strong, vibrant business that will also improve
people?s lives.
We?re looking for one idea that stands above all the rest.
- An idea that could truly change the way people use Nokia mobile
devices.
- An idea that demonstrates how mobility improves the lives of
millions of people in emerging markets worldwide.
- An idea that recognizes a good business opportunity can also
contribute to "doing good" ? and making a dramatic difference in the
lives of people in developing nations.
There can only be one winner in this competition, but the winning idea
will make people stand up and take notice. And let?s be clear, this
Venture Challenge is about more than just mobile apps. The winning idea
might be hardware, software, or a new service opportunity.
 Tell Us Your $1 Million Idea (Submissions for this unique investment opportunity will be accepted through 18 April, 2010. The winner will be announced in June of 2010) Nokia?s Calling All Innovators competition has always been about trying to find... |
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Wikipedia - List of distributed computing projects

http://boinc.berkeley.edu, Wikipedia entry
Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy:
Active: 322,893 volunteers, 611,890 computers (including PS3).
24-hour average: 5,153.65 TeraFLOPS.
http://folding.stanford.edu,
Wikipedia Entry
...to better understand the development of many diseases, including sickle-cell disease (drepanocytosis), Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, mad cow disease, cancer, Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, osteogenesis imperfecta, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, and other aggregation-related diseases...
Folding@home does not rely on powerful supercomputers for its data processing; instead, the primary contributors to the Folding@home project are many hundreds of thousands of personal computer users who have installed a client program. The client runs in the background, utilizing otherwise unused CPU power.
 Wikipedia - List of distributed computing projects http://boinc.berkeley.edu, Wikipedia entry Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure,... |
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 Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy, HBR, Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer Dec 2001. When it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility" and investors applying pressure to... |
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Click here for the article of The Economist "Professionalising the professor", February 25, 2010
THIS subtle and intelligent little book should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctorate. They may then decide to go elsewhere. For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captures it deftly.
His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on. These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English. However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess. But most find it difficult to agree on what a ?general education? should look like. At Harvard, Mr Menand notes, ?The great books are read because they have been read??they form a sort of social glue.
One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools...
Related article of Slate, "The Opening of the Academic Mind", January 17, 20010
How to rescue the professoriate from
professionalization.The state of higher education in America is one of those things, like
the airline industry or publishing, that's always in crisis. The academy
is too distant from the concerns of everyday life, or else it's too
politically engaged. The academy has become completely irrelevant,
except for the fact that it's too relevant. We ought to be grateful to
our universities for this. Academic wrongheadedness is one of the few
things people across the political and cultural spectrum can agree upon...  Click here for the article of The Economist "Professionalising the professor", February 25, 2010 THIS subtle and intelligent little book should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctorate. They may then decide to go elsewhere.... |
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 www.broadband.gov + A broadband catapult for America, Monday, March 15, 2010, Eric Schmidt, CEO. ...But we also need even more ambitious objectives -- or ?stretch goals? -- that test the limits of our ingenuity. + http://reboot.fcc.gov/ |
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Article of The Independent, 11 March 2010 In an employment environment where very few of us enjoy absolute job security, there's much to be said for appending another substantial paragraph or two to our CV. Add to that the sharply increasing number of people coming out of universities with first degrees, and it's easy to see why there's a healthy market in postgraduate business-related courses. But it's not just recent graduates opting to enhance their qualifications in this way. There's a widespread trend for mid-career workers to put in some solid study time to try to enhance their prospects in a rapidly changing world. In some cases, this is to make a sharp career change, to move into a job sector with better long-term prospects. And in other cases, this can be provoked by the most unanswerable catalyst of all: redundancy...  Article of The Independent, 11 March 2010 In an employment environment where very few of us enjoy absolute job security, there's much to be said for appending another substantial paragraph or two to our CV. Add to that the sharply... |
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Those who will qualify at the local and regional levels will convene in Warsaw, Poland in July for the final competition.
Prizes to be won include $USD 300,000 and opportunities for internship placements at Microsoft Research laboratories among others.
The ?Imagine Cup? was founded in 2003. Worldwide Finals host have spanned the globe from Spain, Brazil, Japan, South Korea and last year in Egypt. The 2010 Finals will take place in Poland.  Those who will qualify at the local and regional levels will convene in Warsaw, Poland in July for the final competition. Prizes to be won include $USD 300,000 and opportunities for internship placements at Microsoft Research laboratories among others. The... |
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Article of New York Times, March 12, 2009 Like most other academic researchers, Dr. Pasche knows little about
starting a business or courting investors... ... The turnaround started at a trade show of BIO, the world?s largest
biotechnology organization...
Among the accomplishments after the trade show was a statewide program
called Propel, modeled after an effort that helped turn San Diego into a
biotechnology powerhouse.
?Propel is to train and educate entrepreneurs, to take innovation out of
academic centers and place it into tech parks and allow it to
flourish,?...  Article of New York Times, March 12, 2009 Like most other academic researchers, Dr. Pasche knows little about starting a business or courting investors... ... The turnaround started at a trade show of BIO, the world?s largest biotechnology organization... Among... |
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Article of New York Times, The Choice, March 11, 2010.
Brown University is known for many things: its core-less curriculum, its freewheeling ethos of diversity and inclusion, and its popularity as a destination for fictional characters on teenage soaps. But it is not known for the study of business. In fact, it has never
offered a master?s degree in business administration. Last week,
however, the university announced that it will join with the European IE business school
to offer the university?s first executive M.B.A. for mid-career managers
in the spring of 2011...  Article of New York Times, The Choice, March 11, 2010. Brown University is known for many things: its core-less curriculum, its freewheeling ethos of diversity and inclusion, and its popularity as a destination for fictional characters on teenage soaps. But... |
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Cisco has announced a new routing system that it says is going to
speed up the Internet in a big way. According to the company, Cisco
CRS-3 ? currently being tested by AT&T ? is three times faster than
its predecessor, which was introduced in 2004. The company offers a
few intriguing sound bites about the CRS-3 and what it
enables: - the entire printed collection of the
Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second -
every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously -
every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four
minutes.
http://mashable.com/2010/03/09/cisco-crs-3, 9 March, 2010
 Cisco has announced a new routing system that it says is going to speed up the Internet in a big way. According to the company, Cisco CRS-3 ? currently being tested by AT&T ? is three times faster than its... |
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 Download "Focus on Higher Education in Europe 2010" (165 pages) Focus on Higher Education in Europe 2010: The impact of the Bologna Process, 8 March 2010 About Eurydice The Eurydice Network provides information on and analyses of European education systems... |
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