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AGEING, LONGEVITY AND HEALTH
Researchers based at the University of Oxford are investigating how physical and mental exercise could prevent brain decline in older people
The study will examine whether exercise slows brain degeneration or increases the brain's ability to compensate.
More... [University of Oxford News, 21.01.13]
Pre-empting the challenges of ageing
Europe-Asia Forum on active ageing and intergenerational solidarity: Ageing is not a crisis but an opportunity. Ageing is only a crisis if we do not apply our minds and think through the issues and put into action some of the measures to pre-empt the challenges. In fact, we have to be mentally, psychologically and financially prepared to live longer.
SUSTAINABILITY
Cambridge unites to promote energy reduction
The University and Colleges, staff and students, come together in a coordinated effort to highlight Cambridge's commitment to reduce its energy use.
More... [Cambridge News, 18.02.13]
The University of Tokyo Summer 2011 Power Crisis Countermeasures Awarded Energy Conservation Grand Prize
The Energy Conservation Center rewards energy-saving projects promoted by domestic companies, local governments, and educational institutions. The project "Todai Sustainable Campus Project" contributed to the Prize.
More... [The University of Tokyo News, 01.02.13]
'Price collar' could break climate deadlock
The world needs to move away from only setting national carbon emission targets, and instead supplement these with an agreed maximum and minimum carbon price that clearly measures the effort it takes to reach these targets, if it wants to break the deadlock on reaching a binding international agreement, according to an ANU expert.
An energy compass for ETH Zurich
When it comes to using energy, ETH Zurich is keen to make a more conscious effort to play to its strengths in future. This approach is underlined by the new ETH Zurich Energy Concept, which the Executive Board is set to put into effect on 1 January 2013.
EQUALITY
Mind the gap – exploring new dimensions of inequality
A new study of gender and employment has found that women's status in the workforce is rising faster than men's, but men on average still earn more than their female colleagues.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
University Intellectual Property
Universities are increasingly looking to exploit the intellectual property created by their researchers both to meet the expectations of governments and to search for new sources of income. In this new book Professor Graham Richards, who retired from Oxford University in 2008 where he was Head of Chemistry, and has worked with spin-out companies since 1988, investigates the key issues surrounding intellectual property in a higher education setting.
More... [University of Oxford News, 18.07.12]
ALUMNI
11th The University of Tokyo Homecoming Day (Alumni Office)
Under a clear autumn sky, about 6,700 alumni and their family visited the campus and joined alumni reunions, various events such as lectures, symposium and exhibitions organized by Graduate Schools and Institutes, etc.
More... [The University of Tokyo News, 20.10.12]
TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING
PKU President Zhou Qifeng details his "Chinese dream"
PKU has been committed to the idea that the PKU education be shared, Zhou told Xinhua after the meeting. With the aim to share with the whole society its high-quality educational resources, the university has uploaded online scores of lectures given by renowned teachers through the "Online Open University" project, and more courses will be available, said Zhou.
More... [Peking University News, 06.03.13]
ANU joins edX online education revolution
ANU has become the only Australian member of edX, the online learning enterprise that aims to provide education to one billion people worldwide within 10 years.
More... [ANU News, 21.02.13]
FURTHER PARTNERS' HIGHLIGHTS
Ralf Hemmingsen appointed Rector for new term
The Board of the University of Copenhagen has decided to appoint Ralf Hemmingsen Rector until 1 March 2017. Ralf Hemmingsen has been Rector since November 2005 and his term will therefore total over 11 years.
More... [University of Copenhagen News, 25.02.13]
ANU joins edX online education revolution
ANU has become the only Australian member of edX, the online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that aims to provide education to one billion people worldwide within 10 years.
More... [ANU News, 21.02.13]
Yale University and Banco Santander expand partnership
Yale University and Banco Santander entered into formal agreement on Feb. 6 that expands an ongoing partnership in support of international education. The bank, which made its first grants to Yale in 2011, has committed new funding to the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
More... [Yale News, 07.02.13]
Here Is What The Universities Of The Future Could Look Like
We will see increasingly creative partnerships between for-profit entities and traditional universities, writes Linda Lorimer, Vice-President of Yale University.
More... [Yale News / Business Insider, 31.01.13]
Online learning and science at Davos (WEF)
Online education and its potentially disruptive impact on higher education was a very topical sub-theme at Davos this year. Report by Tan Chorh Chuan.
More... [NUS Newshub, 28.01.13]
Record-high applications for Yale College; high international interest in Yale-NUS
Yale College received 29,790 applications for the Class of 2017 — an all-time high applicant pool for the college. This year, by checking an optional box on Yale's Common Application Supplement, applicants to Yale could request that a copy of their application materials be shared with Yale-NUS College, the new liberal arts college in Singapore that Yale is jointly founding with the National University of Singapore.
More... [Yale News, 21.01.13]
Nicholas Dirks to be Berkeley's 10th chancellor
Nicholas Dirks affirmed his own commitment to the university's public mission, and to what he called a shared responsibility to be both "excellent and accountable" to California taxpayers.
More... [UC Berkeley News Center, 27.11.12]
Yale provost Peter Salovey to be the University's next president
Peter Salovey, currently Yale's provost and the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, has been named as the University's 23rd president. His appointment is effective June 30, 2013.
More... [Yale News, 08.11.12]
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