ANGLIAN COLEGE. LONDON-English Language Training has resumed in our Woolwich Campus once again. The campus had stopped accepting further students from December last year to focus resources on other popular courses.
However, following a crucial decision in January to go ahead with teaching English and to try to develop a fully fledged department of English Language Training, Mr H S Oxley, a native Englishman and trained English language teacher (CELTA) with a degree in English literature, has joined the team at our Language and Training Department and leads a new strategy to deliver quality teaching in English language skills.
Already some students, who spoke and wrote little or no English before the start of their course, have made significant progress in their language skills. The students represent countries ranging from Angola and elsewhere in Africa to India and South Asia.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Bank of America Announces Cleaner Coal Partnership With the Harvard University Center for the Environment
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America today announced a new partnership with the Harvard University Center for the Environment. The collaboration, which includes a $1 million grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, will support the development of a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Action Plan. This collaboration is part of Bank of America's $20 billion, 10-year environmental initiative to address climate change through lending, investing, the creation of new products and services, operations and philanthropy.
"Bank of America is working with the Harvard Center for the Environment to develop workable solutions to the long-term challenges of global climate change," said Anne Finucane, Chief Marketing Officer and Chair of Bank of America's Environmental Council. "Implementation of carbon capture and storage is a critical component of an environmentally sustainable economy and future. We hope this project will help expedite the development and adoption of this important technology."
A great challenge of this century is to develop secure, safe, clean, and affordable sources of energy to power world economic growth for present and future generations while protecting the environment from the impacts of global climate change. To address this challenge, the Harvard University Center for the Environment is leading the Climate Solutions Program -- an interdisciplinary faculty collaboration focusing its broad and deep capabilities on the energy-climate challenge. Research teams convened under this program are working together to find realistic paths to what climate scientists have identified as the ultimate policy goal: an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century.
Bank of America's grant will support one important component of the broader Climate Solutions Program -- a project to develop a CCS Action Plan. While carbon capture and storage may be the cornerstone of a future "climate solution," there are numerous obstacles and unanswered questions in the way of any strategy for broad implementation including: how CCS systems will be financed and to what extent state and federal government should be involved; how long it will take for these systems to come on line; which current plants should be retrofitted and what new infrastructure investments -- e.g., pipelines, transport systems -- will be required; and what key regulatory regimes need to be developed to govern these activities.
The CCS Action Plan brings together experts from across Harvard University with environmental leaders from industry, government and the nonprofit community to address the economic, policy, technology and legal implications of CCS. In addition to providing support, Bank of America will be providing an intellectual contribution as a key participant in this stakeholder group. Together, the team will assess scenarios for the broad implementation of CCS systems, including the development of blueprints for various pathways to wide-scale deployment. Results of the project will include a series of publications that recommend specific policy alternatives. Work on this project is already underway.
"Bank of America's support will allow us to bring together expertise from across many disciplines -- including engineering, geology, economics, business, law, and government -- to develop a plan for implementation of CCS at the scale needed to address our greenhouse gas reduction goals," said Daniel Schrag, PhD, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment. "Alongside energy efficiency and the expanded use of renewable energy, carbon capture and storage will be an essential component of any national and international strategy to protect the world from the most dangerous consequences of global climate change."
The grant will also support the continuation of three successful environmental speaker series: "The Future of Energy," "Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change," and "Green Conversations." These speaker series engage the Harvard community and the public in a discussion of different choices and strategies in confronting energy and environmental challenges.
Bank of America's environmental initiatives provide critical financing to encourage the development of environmentally sustainable products and technologies; accelerate the deployment of existing technologies; and increase energy efficiency. Results under these initiatives include investments in solar and other renewable energy efforts at schools, municipalities and businesses, and financing the preservation of redwood forests, among other efforts. At the same time, the company has policies in place to discourage financing projects that would destroy primary moist tropical rainforests, certain endangered forests or companies involved in illegal logging.
For more information about Bank of America's environmental commitment, please visit www.bankofamerica.com/environment.
Bank of America Corporate Philanthropy
Building on a long-standing tradition of investing in the communities it serves, Bank of America will embark in 2009 on a new, ten-year goal to donate $2 billion to nonprofit organizations engaged in improving the health and vitality of their neighborhoods. Funded by Bank of America, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation gave more than $200 million in 2007, making the bank the most generous financial institution in the world and the second largest donor of all U.S. corporations in cash contributions. Bank of America approaches giving through a national strategy called "neighborhood excellence" under which it works with local leaders to identify and meet the most pressing needs of individual communities. Through Team Bank of America, bank associate volunteers contributed more than 650,000 hours in 2007 to enhance the quality of life in their communities nationwide. For more information about Bank of America Corporate Philanthropy, please visit www.bankofamerica.com/foundation.
Harvard University Center for the Environment
The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) encourages research and education about the environment and its many interactions with human society. The Center draws its strength from faculty members and students across the University who make up a remarkable intellectual community of scholars, researchers, and teachers of diverse fields including chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, engineering and applied sciences, biology, public health and medicine, government, business, economics, religion, and the law. The most pressing problems facing our natural environment are complex, often requiring collaborative investigation by scholars versed in different disciplines. By connecting scholars and practitioners from different disciplines, the Center for the Environment seeks to raise the quality of environmental research at Harvard and beyond.
Bank of America
Web site: http://www.bankofamerica.com/
http://www.bankofamerica.com/environment/
http://www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/
source : interesalert.com
"Bank of America is working with the Harvard Center for the Environment to develop workable solutions to the long-term challenges of global climate change," said Anne Finucane, Chief Marketing Officer and Chair of Bank of America's Environmental Council. "Implementation of carbon capture and storage is a critical component of an environmentally sustainable economy and future. We hope this project will help expedite the development and adoption of this important technology."
A great challenge of this century is to develop secure, safe, clean, and affordable sources of energy to power world economic growth for present and future generations while protecting the environment from the impacts of global climate change. To address this challenge, the Harvard University Center for the Environment is leading the Climate Solutions Program -- an interdisciplinary faculty collaboration focusing its broad and deep capabilities on the energy-climate challenge. Research teams convened under this program are working together to find realistic paths to what climate scientists have identified as the ultimate policy goal: an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century.
Bank of America's grant will support one important component of the broader Climate Solutions Program -- a project to develop a CCS Action Plan. While carbon capture and storage may be the cornerstone of a future "climate solution," there are numerous obstacles and unanswered questions in the way of any strategy for broad implementation including: how CCS systems will be financed and to what extent state and federal government should be involved; how long it will take for these systems to come on line; which current plants should be retrofitted and what new infrastructure investments -- e.g., pipelines, transport systems -- will be required; and what key regulatory regimes need to be developed to govern these activities.
The CCS Action Plan brings together experts from across Harvard University with environmental leaders from industry, government and the nonprofit community to address the economic, policy, technology and legal implications of CCS. In addition to providing support, Bank of America will be providing an intellectual contribution as a key participant in this stakeholder group. Together, the team will assess scenarios for the broad implementation of CCS systems, including the development of blueprints for various pathways to wide-scale deployment. Results of the project will include a series of publications that recommend specific policy alternatives. Work on this project is already underway.
"Bank of America's support will allow us to bring together expertise from across many disciplines -- including engineering, geology, economics, business, law, and government -- to develop a plan for implementation of CCS at the scale needed to address our greenhouse gas reduction goals," said Daniel Schrag, PhD, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment. "Alongside energy efficiency and the expanded use of renewable energy, carbon capture and storage will be an essential component of any national and international strategy to protect the world from the most dangerous consequences of global climate change."
The grant will also support the continuation of three successful environmental speaker series: "The Future of Energy," "Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change," and "Green Conversations." These speaker series engage the Harvard community and the public in a discussion of different choices and strategies in confronting energy and environmental challenges.
Bank of America's environmental initiatives provide critical financing to encourage the development of environmentally sustainable products and technologies; accelerate the deployment of existing technologies; and increase energy efficiency. Results under these initiatives include investments in solar and other renewable energy efforts at schools, municipalities and businesses, and financing the preservation of redwood forests, among other efforts. At the same time, the company has policies in place to discourage financing projects that would destroy primary moist tropical rainforests, certain endangered forests or companies involved in illegal logging.
For more information about Bank of America's environmental commitment, please visit www.bankofamerica.com/environment.
Bank of America Corporate Philanthropy
Building on a long-standing tradition of investing in the communities it serves, Bank of America will embark in 2009 on a new, ten-year goal to donate $2 billion to nonprofit organizations engaged in improving the health and vitality of their neighborhoods. Funded by Bank of America, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation gave more than $200 million in 2007, making the bank the most generous financial institution in the world and the second largest donor of all U.S. corporations in cash contributions. Bank of America approaches giving through a national strategy called "neighborhood excellence" under which it works with local leaders to identify and meet the most pressing needs of individual communities. Through Team Bank of America, bank associate volunteers contributed more than 650,000 hours in 2007 to enhance the quality of life in their communities nationwide. For more information about Bank of America Corporate Philanthropy, please visit www.bankofamerica.com/foundation.
Harvard University Center for the Environment
The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) encourages research and education about the environment and its many interactions with human society. The Center draws its strength from faculty members and students across the University who make up a remarkable intellectual community of scholars, researchers, and teachers of diverse fields including chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, engineering and applied sciences, biology, public health and medicine, government, business, economics, religion, and the law. The most pressing problems facing our natural environment are complex, often requiring collaborative investigation by scholars versed in different disciplines. By connecting scholars and practitioners from different disciplines, the Center for the Environment seeks to raise the quality of environmental research at Harvard and beyond.
Bank of America
Web site: http://www.bankofamerica.com/
http://www.bankofamerica.com/environment/
http://www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/
source : interesalert.com
Monday, December 1, 2008
SINGAPORE SCHOLARSHIP INVITATION FOR APPLICATIONS ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010
SINGAPORE SCHOLARSHIP INVITATION FOR APPLICATIONS ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010
The Singapore Government awards the scholarship to Government-endorsed students from the other member countries of the ASEAN. Each Scholarship is for a full-time undergraduate degree course at the Nanyang Technological University, the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Management University. All disciplines except for Medicine and Dentistry are open to Scholars. The duration of each scholarships is for three or four years, depending on the discipline.
The award based on academic merit and places will allocated by open competition. If necessary, a one-year bridging or foundation programme, in addition to the undergraduate studies, will be provided.
To be eligible, a candidate must:
* Be a citizen in an ASEAN country (Except Singapore) * Possess excellent academic records; and * Have a good command of English
Candidates must meet the entry requirements for Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, and Singapore Management University. A recipient of the Scholarship may not concurrently hold any other Scholarship, Fellowship, Grant or Award without prior approval of the Singapore Government. The Scholars are also expected to return to their countries upon graduation to contribute to the development of their countries.
The scholarship will cover tuition fees for the duration of the award, a living allowance of S$4,300 per annum, an accommodation allowance based on the different room rates at each university and one return economy class air ticket passage from his/her home country to Singapore for the duration of studies.
Applications must be endorsed and submitted by the Indonesian Department of National Education (Bureau of Planning and Foreign Cooperation) at Building C, 6th Floor, Jl. Jend.Sudirman, Senayan, Jakarta Pusat. Candidates are required to produce the following :
1. Certificate, endorsement by the former school, for graduated applicants; 2. Recommendation from the school principal, for applicants who are still in Grade 3 at SMU.
For more information on the Singapore Scholarships, Please contact Embassy in Jakarta:Tel: 021-520 1489 / 5296 1433Website: www.mfa.gov.sg/scp or write to:The Singapore ScholarshipTechnical Cooperation DirectorateMinistry of Foreign AffairsTanglin, Singapore 248163Tel: (65) 6379 8000Fax: (65) 6479 3357E-Mail: mfa_scp@mfa.gov.sgDeadline: 22nd December 2008
SOURCE: beasiswaluarnegeri.com
The Singapore Government awards the scholarship to Government-endorsed students from the other member countries of the ASEAN. Each Scholarship is for a full-time undergraduate degree course at the Nanyang Technological University, the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Management University. All disciplines except for Medicine and Dentistry are open to Scholars. The duration of each scholarships is for three or four years, depending on the discipline.
The award based on academic merit and places will allocated by open competition. If necessary, a one-year bridging or foundation programme, in addition to the undergraduate studies, will be provided.
To be eligible, a candidate must:
* Be a citizen in an ASEAN country (Except Singapore) * Possess excellent academic records; and * Have a good command of English
Candidates must meet the entry requirements for Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, and Singapore Management University. A recipient of the Scholarship may not concurrently hold any other Scholarship, Fellowship, Grant or Award without prior approval of the Singapore Government. The Scholars are also expected to return to their countries upon graduation to contribute to the development of their countries.
The scholarship will cover tuition fees for the duration of the award, a living allowance of S$4,300 per annum, an accommodation allowance based on the different room rates at each university and one return economy class air ticket passage from his/her home country to Singapore for the duration of studies.
Applications must be endorsed and submitted by the Indonesian Department of National Education (Bureau of Planning and Foreign Cooperation) at Building C, 6th Floor, Jl. Jend.Sudirman, Senayan, Jakarta Pusat. Candidates are required to produce the following :
1. Certificate, endorsement by the former school, for graduated applicants; 2. Recommendation from the school principal, for applicants who are still in Grade 3 at SMU.
For more information on the Singapore Scholarships, Please contact Embassy in Jakarta:Tel: 021-520 1489 / 5296 1433Website: www.mfa.gov.sg/scp or write to:The Singapore ScholarshipTechnical Cooperation DirectorateMinistry of Foreign AffairsTanglin, Singapore 248163Tel: (65) 6379 8000Fax: (65) 6479 3357E-Mail: mfa_scp@mfa.gov.sgDeadline: 22nd December 2008
SOURCE: beasiswaluarnegeri.com
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