Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticise.
The event, chaired by Sir Liam Donaldson of the World Alliance for Patient Safety, will include keynote speeches by eight ministers of health, academics and WHO staff.
But that was not the only oddity of his bequest: his low opinion of academics was hard to reconcile with his zeal for a university education.
Assimilation as an official policy died, although it is still favoured by some academics, including Tom Flanagan of the University of Calgary, who has close ties to the current prime minister.
The grumpiness is not confined to bolshy academics and rioting students.
Conservative academics warm to her, because she treated them fairly when she was dean of the Harvard Law School.
A new higher-education law ends the autonomy of the main universities and gives administrative and blue-collar staff equal rights with (more troublesome) academics in electing rectors.
It comprises seven local academics, eight overseas academics and four local professionals and industrialists.
It was so novel that he was concerned it might raise skepticism among colleagues and academics.
Some Western academics have said that the very existence of places like Yakutsk, built in terrain that simply isn't meant for human habitation, is absurd.
Its members comprise local academics, overseas academics as well as local professionals and industrialists.
The iconic plastic doll is often mutilated at the hands of young girls, according to research published by British academics.
Pending formation of this statutory body, the Provisional Construction Industry Co-ordination Board was set up in September with members drawn from clients, professionals, academics, consultants, contractors, workers, independent persons, as well as government bureaux and departments.
They won; but then, in 2004, they went to independent arbitration. Three Austrian academics decided that the paintings should be returned.
The very idea would be foreign and unacceptable to main stream academics.
It comprises non-local academics, local academics and local professionals and businessmen.
Chinese academics engage cautiously with Western reporters about the possibility that some day Chinese people may be allowed to vote.
Under that argument, academics say the giant reptiles mostly froze or starved to death when a huge cloud of particles kicked up by the meteorite blocked the world's sunlight for months.
They may attend classes for only a period a day, to work strictly on English skills, or attend for a full day and locus both on academics and English.
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