International delegates agreed Friday that the world has the technology and money to limit catastrophic global warming...Promptly adopting biofuels, renewable energy sources and greater energy efficiency can mitigate worldwide disaster, according to a rep
Part documentary and part fiction feature, "John & Jane" is a film set in the call centers of Mumbai that explores the effects of globalization on six call agents. Indian by day and American by night, the employees' split-identity lives warp their sense o
American tax dollars and the wartime needs of the U.S. military are fueling an illicit pipeline of cheap foreign labor, mainly impoverished Asians who often are deceived, exploited and put in harm's way in Iraq with little protection.
Welcome to the working website for the SSHRC MCRI Globalization and Autonomy ongoing research project. The purpose of this space is to provide information for all of the team members involved in the project and their research assistants.
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The proposed project examines how displaced industrial workers, their families, and the town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario adjusted to the closure of Weyerhaeuser’s corrugated paper mill in December 2002. The mill was the centre of local life for more than
GenderStats through the World Bank is "a compilation of data on key gender topics from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys. Continuously updated."
Lest anyone doubt that Asia holds promise for American higher-education companies, the chief executive of Laureate Education, who just engineered a $3.8-billion private-equity buyout of the company...
Educators need to think beyond traditional models to expand access to higher education worldwide, said speakers at a conference sponsored by a private lending arm of the World Bank.
With college enrollments mushrooming in many nations but public support generally unable to keep up, the world is seeing a historic swing from public to private financing of higher education, the report says.
However, the amount of legal threats, lawsuits, hacking attempts, domain hijacking attempts, and so forth on the part of for-profit institutions around the world (especially from the US and Canada) is something that we deal with every single day.
Transatlantic talks are going on between Princeton University and the University of Oxford about increasing their cooperation in the sciences. Oxford officials said the discussions between the two...
The privatisation of higher education has been advocated by governments as well as regional and international organisations as a way to fill the supply-demand gap left by the public sector, transfer the finance burden to higher education consumers – for example, students and industry – and increase the efficiency and relevance of higher education and the private returns to consumers.