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27th August 2014 Mumbai, India
UK-India-Brazil-Africa discuss green chemistry for biofuels in Durban
It was the culmination of a 6-month long joint endeavour between the UK Science & Innovation network (S&IN) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) – a 2-day UK-India-Brazil-Africa programme on ‘green chemistry for sustainable production of biofuels’ held subsequent to the 5th IUPAC international conference on green chemistry, in Durban, South Africa. I partnered […]
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27th August 2014 New Delhi, India
Deputy Prime Minister announces new UK-India partnerships to tackle some of the world’s biggest problems
During a trade mission to India this week, the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced a series of new partnerships between British and Indian scientists which will look to tackle some of the biggest issues facing the two countries. From vital health research to predicting the weather, the new partnerships will cement the position of […]
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26th August 2014 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 18-24 August 2014
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26th August 2014 New Delhi, India
2nd UK-India Task Force on Science & Innovation
A couple of weeks back I was lucky enough to be in London to enjoy some glorious English summer weather and, more importantly, participate in the second UK-India Science & Innovation Task Force meeting. Professor T K Chandrashekar, Secretary of India’s Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), led a high level Indian delegation to London for […]
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25th August 2014 Athens, Greece
Tragedy and the tragic
Ten days ago, I attended the last performance at this year’s Festival of Epidauros, Nikaiti Kondouri’s production of Aeschylus’ Persians. There were more than 6,000 people on the beautiful marble seating of the ancient theatre. The atmosphere beforehand was lively, expectant, talkative. But once the drama began, this huge audience fell mute and minutely attentive. […]
21st August 2014 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 11-17 August 2014
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21st August 2014 British High Commission, Kingston, Jamaica
My Chevening Experience : Glenn Edward McPhee
My academic pursuit at the University of Buckingham was dominated by intellectually stimulating lectures and tutorials. The MA in Security and Intelligence Studies, offered a unique degree of practitioner-led expertise to relate academic and historical analyses of contemporary security and intelligence environments in Western democracies, with a focus on the United Kingdom.
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21st August 2014 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Bringing us all together
Education has been on my mind recently. On a personal level, my daughters are settling into school and nursery. But the last ten days in the office have also been a crash course in the links between Sri Lankan and UK educational establishments, and an opportunity to chat to an inspiring mix of past, present […]
20th August 2014
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Helping Palestinian Refugees
How to help refugees is a major issue in Jordan. As a country, Jordan has offered sanctuary to generations of refugees from many neighbouring countries, most recently from Syria. But the presence of over 2 million refugees from Palestine also presents a major challenge to the country. That is where the role of UNRWA comes […]
20th August 2014
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World Humanitarian Day
As I write, I am representing the #UK in an open session of the Africa Union’s #(AU) Peace and Security Council #PSC in Addis Ababa to commemorate World Humanitarian Day #WHD2014 – a date which marks, of course, the horrific bombing of #UN Headquarters in Baghdad in 2003. It seems today that the humanitarian system is being stretched […]