Monday 30 November 2009

University of Warwick




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The establishment of the University of Warwick was given approval by the government in 1961 and received its Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1965. It is situated on a large 700 acre campus which straddles the boundary between the City of Coventry and the County of Warwickshire. The idea for a university in Coventry was mooted shortly after the conclusion of the Second World War but it was a bold and imaginative partnership of the City and the County which brought the University into being on a 400 acre site jointly granted by the two authorities.

In the forty years since the University of Warwick was founded, it has attained the position of one of Britain's leading universities. The University is consistently ranked in the top group for the high quality of its teaching and research.

Warwick was the first research-led University to give priority to widening participation and to lifelong learning and cultivates close and productive links with its local and regional community. It has a strong tradition of working in collaboration with business and industry and plays an active role in economic regeneration. Warwick ranked 7th among the UK's 100 universities for quality of research (Funding Councils' Research Assessment Exercise, 2008); 65% of Warwick's research is 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent' (Quality level of either 3* or 4*).

In relation to teaching quality, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) carried out an institutional audit in November 2008. The final report stated that the QAA had confidence in the academic standards of the awards offered at the University and the quality of learning opportunities available to students. The report also identified a number of areas of good practice, including the academic and support infrastructure and policies which support the enhancement of undergraduate, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research student skills development.

The campus of the University covers 290 hectares and lies in the valley of Canley Brook draining red, heavy clay soils. It is an area of considerable historical interest with evidence of occupation since Neolithic times. Henry II gave part of this royal estate to Cistercian monks in 1155, and near Tocil Wood pottery was manufactured using local clay and charcoal. Following dissolution in 1535, the land was enclosed and assumed many of the features evident to this day. The campus covers four medieval farmsteads: Gibbet Hill, Tocil, Cryfield and Cryfield Grange Farms.

Over the last 40 years, in addition to building, there has been extensive tree planting and the creation of 8 lakes or ponds. A third of the area is farmed and, to reduce damage to wildlife, the University has entered into a Countryside Stewardship Scheme, which allows for replacing and improving hedgerows and creating buffer strips along existing hedges and watercourses.

The value of a Warwick Degree and what makes Warwick a unique place at which to study is the combination of excellence in both research and teaching. They are not activities confined to a select few, and as a student at Warwick, you will directly benefit from the lively academic community. For many years, Warwick has been recognised as one of the UK's leading research universities. This pre-eminent position was once again confirmed by the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, carried out by the Higher Education Funding Councils. Warwick overall was placed seventh nationally out of 100 UK universities for research quality. 19 Warwick departments are in the top 10 in the UK in their unit of assessment. Our research activity informs and inspires all our teaching.

The Times Good University Guide 2010 consequently placed Warwick sixth in its national table of teaching assessment results. A further ten good reasons to join us at the University of Warwick:

1. An active postgraduate community - around 40% of our student population are postgraduates, studying for a range of different qualifications
2. International renown - recognised worldwide with over 4,500 overseas students
3. Career prospects - offering one of the highest employment rates of all the top UK universities
4. Innovative programmes - with a significant vocational and professional content, satisfying the needs of industry, commerce and governments worldwide
5. Environment and situation - a landscaped self-contained campus on the edge of a city - the best of both worlds!
6. High quality accommodation - a range of choices, including on and off-campus
7. Cultural and sporting life - the largest Arts Centre outside of London plus excellent sporting facilities for all levels
8. Student's Union - one of the biggest SU's in the UK with its own Postgraduate Committee
9. Quick and easy applications - apply online at www.warwick.ac.uk/postgrad.
10. Help with funding - go to www.warwick.ac.uk/study/funding for more information.

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Heidelberg University




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Soon after its foundation, the University had firmly established its position in Europe's intellectual landscape. In the initial period, renowned theologians and jurists figured prominently among the Elector's counsellors, while the list of alumni included chancellors, bishops and royal emissaries. Later, in the 15th century, Heidelberg developed into a stronghold of humanism.
The University became a veritable well-spring of new ideas and intellectual currents. Martin Luther's disputation in April 1518 made a lasting impact and his adherents among the masters and scholars soon became leading Reformationists in Southwest Germany. Notably after the Palatinate's turn to the Reformed faith, reforms in the spirit of humanism had immense influence on the intellectual climate of the day. The Heidelberg Catechism drawn up by professors from Heidelberg is famed throughout the world as the seminal document of the Reformed Church. The University represented a haven of undogmatic thinking, attracting professors and students from all over Europe.
But the renown bound up with the glorious flowering of humanism came to an end with the Thirty Years' War and was not to be restored until the early 19th century. In the meantime, the University had lapsed into a profound crisis, due not least to the Napoleonic wars. It owed its revival in 1803 to the advent of Prince Karl-Friedrich, then Elector and later Grand Duke of Baden. In its full title (Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg), the university commemorates both its founder Ruprecht I and its later champion and political reformer.
Heidelberg quickly developed into a productive scholarly republic. This revival ran parallel to the discovery of the city by poets, artists and intellectuals like Friedrich Hölderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph von Eichendorff and Robert Schumann. The circle of outstanding university scholars such as Friedrich Creuzer and Joseph Görres was joined in the early 19th century by the writers Clemens von Brentano and Achim von Arnim.
Heidelberg jurist Anton Justus Friedrich Thibaut was the prime mover behind the creation of a new German Civil Code, while historical and philological research also played its part in enhancing the fast-growing fame of the University. It was here that Johann Heinrich Voß produced his epoch-making translation of Homer and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline. Georg Gottfried Gervinus was a co-founder of the liberal-minded Deutsche Zeitung journal, while Heinrich Treitschke wrote his History of Germany in the crucial years prior to the establishment of the German Empire.
n science and medicine LinkRobert Wilhelm Bunsen, Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff made Heidelberg a major centre of scientific research in Germany. These names have lost none of their epoch-making significance: Helmholtz was the first to investigate the physiology of sight and sound, Kirchhoff and Bunsen discovered spectral analysis. Somewhat later, Vinzenz Czerny's institute for "experimental cancer research" paved the way for the great tradition of ground-breaking cancer research still associated with Heidelberg.
In the early 20th century, the image of German university and student life entertained in the world at large was very much an image of Heidelberg. The name stood for the "embodiment of the life of the mind", a phrase coined by philosopher Karl Jaspers, who taught here until 1948. One of its outstanding features was a tradition of interdisciplinary dialogue cultivated in a variety of forums and other circles, chief among them the one presided over by Max Weber, the founder of the modern social sciences.
But the much-vaunted "spirit of Heidelberg" suffered an abrupt demise when the National Socialists seized power. The "leader principle" invaded civil society and like other universities Heidelberg was forced to toe the party line. Before 1933 anti-Semitism had had very little influence on the appointment of professors in Heidelberg, so the proportion of Jewish scholars and scientists teaching here was especially high. This was reflected in the aftermath by the large number of professors ousted from university life and hounded out of Germany. In 1936 the National Socialists altered the inscription above the entrance to the New University. Instead of "To the Living Spirit" it now read "To the German Spirit". At the same time they replaced the sculpture of Pallas Athene with the eagle of the Reich - a dual act of supreme symbolic significance that has lost none of its enormity to this day.

The reopening of the University after 1945 was fraught with all the birth pangs attendant upon a process of thoroughgoing internal and external renewal. Among the leading figures engineering this arduous restoration were Gustav Radbruch and Alfred Weber, who had both been divested of their professorships during the Third Reich, the theologian Martin Dibelius and the chemist Karl Freudenberg. The University finally opened its doors again in 1946. The first Rector after the War was the surgeon Karl Heinrich Bauer.

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Sunday 29 November 2009

Tokyo Institute of Technology



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At the turn of the new millennium, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Tech, celebrated its 120th anniversary. Founded in 1881 as Tokyo Vocation al School and later elevated to a university in 1929, Tokyo Tech has been very successful as a university specializing in science and technology, producin g a great number of leading engineers and professi onals in the fields of science and technology. In 1967, the Faculty of Science and Engineering (the on ly faculty up to that time) was separated into two faculties: the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering. The new era had started, and Tokyo Tech has developed even more remarkably since then. Research in new fields and interdisciplinary areas of science and technology has been actively conducted. The Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, the Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, and the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology were founded in succession. With its cohesive organization and superior quality of research and education, Tokyo Tech has been recognized as one of the leading universities in science and technology in the world.

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Boston University




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Boston University -- independent, coeducational, and non-sectarian -- is an internationally recognized institution of higher education and research located along the banks of the Charles River and adjacent to the historic Back Bay district of Boston.

With more than 30,000 students from all 50 states and 135 countries, it is one of the largest independent universities in the United States. For over 150 years, Boston University has anticipated the changing needs of its students while serving the greater needs of society.

As one of the nation's premier research universities, Boston University believes that all students benefit by learning from dedicated teachers who are actively engaged in original research. The University's learning environment is further enriched by an extraordinary array of direct involvements with the broader artistic, economic, social, intellectual, and educational life of the community. These relationships provide a distinctly practical edge to the University's educational and research programs, while enhancing the life and vitality of one of the world's great cities.

Boston University's policies provide for equal opportunity and affirmative action in employment and admission to all programs of the University.

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Peking University



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Peking University is a comprehensive and National key university. The campus, known as "Yan Yuan"-- the gardens of Yan, is situated at the northeast of the Haidian District at the western suburbs of Beijing. It stands near the Yuan Ming Gardens and the Summer Palace.

The University consists of 30 colleges and 12 departments, with 93 specialties for undergraduates, 2 specialties for the second Bachelor's degree, 199 specialties for Master candidates and 173 specialties for Doctoral candidates. While still laying stress on basic sciences, the university has paid special attention to the development of applied sciences.

At present, Peking university has 216 research institutes and research centres, and there are 2 national engineering research centres, 81 key national disciplines, 12 national key laboratories.

The university has made an effective combination of the research on important scientific issues with the training of personnel with high level specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by the country's socialist modernization. It strives not only for the simultaneous improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the promotion of interaction and mutual promotion among various subjects.

Thus Peking University has become a center for teaching and research and a university of the new type, consisting of diverse branches of learning such as pure and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and sciences of management and education. Its aim is to rank among the world's best universities at the beginning of the next century.

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New York University (nyu)



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One hundred and seventy years ago, Albert Gallatin, the distinguished statesman who served as secretary of the treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, declared his intention to establish “in this immense and fast-growing city … a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously open to all.�

At that time, 1831, most students in American colleges and universities were members of the privileged classes. Albert Gallatin and the University’s founding fathers planned NYU as a center of higher learning that would be open to all, regardless of national origin, religious beliefs, or social background.

While the University’s commitment to these ideals remains unchanged, in many ways Albert Gallatin would scarcely recognize NYU today. From a student body of 158, enrollment has grown to nearly 40,000 students attending 14 schools and colleges at six different locations in Manhattan and in over 20 study-abroad countries around the world. Students come from many foreign countries. The faculty, which initially consisted of 14 professors (among them artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse), now totals over 3,100 full-time members.

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The seal is composed of five emblems that embrace the goals and traditions of NYU. These include the NYU name and founding year. The motto perstare et praestare, to persevere and to excel, underscores the depiction of classic runners and, when combined, they represent the continued pursuit of academic excellence. Finally, there is the upheld torch of the Lady of the Harbor, which signifies NYU in service to the “metropolis� - New York City

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