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Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
In his book Excellent Sheep, William Deresiewicz questions the way in which today’s generation, and the world at large, thinks of the purpose of community Service. His words, which I quote here at length, asks you to think…
Lack of Languages Stifles Brits and Americans
The British Academy’s report, Languages: the State of the Nation, published in February 2013, discovered “strong evidence of a growing deficit in foreign language skills at a time when globally…
¿Para qué sirve la cultura?
SOY CĂMARA. El programa del CCCB (36) // ÂżPara quĂ© sirve la cultura? from CCCB on Vimeo.
UK: New Study Abroad Programme Makes Languages an EU Priority
The Erasmus+ programme will provide grants for more than four million people across the EU to study or train abroad. It comes into force in January 2014 and aims to…
The Future is here, and itâs better than you think.
With all this talk of scientific advances and the need for complex calculations to run the machines of our daily lives in the future, it can make many people wonder. How am I going to be able to…
In Praise of Languages for Internationalization
Reposted from The Chronicles of Higher Education. First, we cannot deny the economic importance of languages for global competitiveness, or indeed for national security and diplomacy. Sir Adam Roberts, president of the British Academy, argues that, “For the…
The Art World the Millennial Way
Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
Pursuing a New Perspective in Medicine
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table