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- 29 July 2014 - 17:00
Report: What makes the UK attractive to young adults?
So what do people think of the UK? Anne Bostanci breaks down the results of a recently carried out survey
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- 07 July 2014 - 14:58
Will the trend of short-term study abroad catch on?
What are the trends in study abroad? Janice Mulholland of the British Council’s US office explains the big issues in US universities’ international education programmes.
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- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 14 May 2014 - 12:02
Improve your memory in a surprising way
Lyl Tomlinson, the US winner of the science communication competition FameLab, explains why you should lace up your running shoes if you want to remember where you left your keys.
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- Science
- Date
- 01 May 2014 - 09:28
Why sponsor students to study abroad?
Governments invest in their citizens through scholarship programmes for international study, but do the benefits of such investment outweigh the risks?
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- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 01 April 2014 - 16:24
Why universities want to internationalise; what stops them
Universities worldwide are increasingly opening their doors to peer institutions in other countries. But the enthusiasm for internationalisation is also accompanied by reservations.
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- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 14 November 2013 - 15:20
UK: number one study-abroad destination for US students
In the latest Open Doors report about US student mobility, the UK is again the number one destination for US students. The British Council’s Tamsin Thomas reports on this year’s findings.
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- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 31 October 2013 - 10:49
UK street artist Banksy makes the news in New York
The British Council's JJ El-Far explains UK street artist Banksy's transatlantic appeal.
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- Arts, Visual Arts
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- 25 October 2013 - 09:47
How Northern Irish students can study in the US
The Study USA programme gives scholarships to Northern Irish students to study business at US universities for a year. Páraic Rafferty writes about spending a year at Bellarmine University.
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- Universities and higher education, Study outside the UK
- Date
- 19 September 2013 - 13:36
Where will massive open online courses take universities?
Janice Mulholland explores how the phenomenon of massive open online courses,or MOOCs, which offer free, large-scale access to courses via the web, may affect higher education.
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- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 08 July 2013 - 16:02
Hitchcock: why people are still talking about silent movies
In the biggest restoration project they have ever undertaken, the British Film Institute has restored nine of Alfred Hitchcock’s early silent movies.
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- Film, Arts