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Canada: Immigration Policy Change Widens Door for Foreign Students and Scholars |
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Canada, which attracts more than 130,000 foreign students a year, has eased regulations for foreign students and scholars.
Transfer between different study programs now possible
On January 31, 2005, the Canadian Government announced a new policy for
foreign students enrolled in post-secondary studies in Canada. These
students may now transfer between programs of study and institutions
without applying for a change in the conditions of their study permit.
They can also transfer between public and private institutions.
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EU: EURAB calls European Researchers to Lobby for EU Research Budget |
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The proposed doubling of the EU’s
research budget by the EU Commission to €70 billion for the next
Framework Program (FP7, 2007-2013) seems to be in serious danger due to
the continuing debates over member countries’ contributions. On May
28th, Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and, at that time,
EU president, announced that major cuts in the proposed research budget
have to be expected.
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Film Review: Life running out of control |
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A Documentary by Bertram Verhaag and Gabriele Kröber
95 minutes, Denkmalfilm, Germany 2004.
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Free Culture, Creativity and Media Law |
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by Renate Riedl
Free Culture:
How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
by Lawrence Lessig
Hardcover published by The Penguin Press
Pages: 348
ISBN 1594200068
Pub. Date: 25 Mar 2004
[photo credit: http://www.free-culture.cc/]
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
Considering whether it is legal to use this quote by William
Shakespeare without citing it, I might experience a rough time.
Luckily, Shakespeare’s work is old enough and his play, Henry VI, is
not a music file on the Internet, so it should be okay.
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Some Like it Hot: Differing Approaches to Climate Change |
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by Helmut Hojesky
At long last, the Kyoto Protocol –
the international and legally-binding agreement to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions – entered into force on February 16, 2005. Welcomed inter
alia by the European Union and many developing countries, the Protocol
is still not endorsed by the United States. The international
community is called upon to start thinking about next steps right away.
Will the industrialized world go it together?
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