The University of Bergen is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen,Norway. As of 2019,the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 1946 based on several older scientific institutions dating back to 1825,and is Norway's second oldest university. It is considered one of Norway's four "established universities" and has faculties and programmes in all the fields of a classical university including fields that are traditionally reserved by law for established universities,including medicine and law. It is also one of Norway's leading universities in many natural sciences,including marine research and climate research. It is consistently ranked in the top one percentage among the world's universities,usually among the best 200 universities and among the best 10 or 50 universities worldwide in some fields such as earth and marine sciences. It is part of the Coimbra Group and of the U5 group of Norway's oldest and highest ranked universities.
The University of Cambridge is composed of 31 colleges in addition to the academic departments and administration of the central University. Until the mid-19th century,both Cambridge and Oxford comprised a group of colleges with a small central university administration,rather than universities in the common sense. Cambridge's colleges are communities of students,academics and staff –an environment in which generations and academic disciplines are able to mix,with both students and fellows experiencing "the breadth and excellence of a top University at an intimate level".
York University,also known as YorkU or simply YU,is a public research university in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university,and it has approximately 55,700 students,7,000 faculty and staff,and over 325,000 alumni worldwide. It has 11 faculties,including the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies,Faculty of Science,Lassonde School of Engineering,Schulich School of Business,Osgoode Hall Law School,Glendon College,Faculty of Education,Faculty of Health,Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change,Faculty of Graduate Studies,School of the Arts,Media,Performance and Design,and 28 research centres.
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university located in London,England,and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb,Beatrice Webb,Graham Wallas,and George Bernard Shaw,LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and established its first degree courses under the auspices of the university in 1901. LSE began awarding its degrees in its own name in 2008,prior to which it awarded degrees of the University of London.
The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester,England. The main campus is south of Manchester City Centre on Oxford Road. The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the Manchester Museum,The Whitworth art gallery,the John Rylands Library,the Tabley House Collection and the Jodrell Bank Observatory—a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East Anglia,United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art,founded by William John Beamont in 1858. It became a university in 1992,and was renamed after John Ruskin in 2005. It is one of the “post-1992 universities”.
Cranfield University is a British postgraduate public research university specialising in science,engineering,design,technology and management. Cranfield was founded as the College of Aeronautics (CoA) in 1946. Through the 1950s and 1960s,the development of aircraft research led to growth and diversification into other areas such as manufacturing and management,and in 1967,to the founding of the Cranfield School of Management. In 1969,the College of Aeronautics was renamed the Cranfield Institute of Technology,was incorporated by royal charter,gained degree awarding powers,and became a university. In 1993,it adopted its current name.
The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment is the academic centre for the study of the built environment at University College London (UCL),part of the University of London in London,United Kingdom. It is home to twelve departments that have expertise in individual fields of the built-environment,including the Bartlett School of Architecture,Bartlett School of Planning,Bartlett Development Planning Unit,and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. The Bartlett is consistently ranked the highest in Europe and the UK and among the highest in the world for the "Architecture and the Built-Environment" category in all major rankings. In the 2019 QS World University Rankings,it was ranked first in the world,and was ranked second in the 2021 Rankings.
Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University (NYU),and a social activist and analyst. He has authored and edited numerous books,and written for The New York Times,The Guardian,The Nation,Newsweek,and Al Jazeera. Much of his writing focuses on labor,the urban environment,and the organisation of work,from the Western world of business and high-technology to conditions of offshore labour in the Global South. Making use of social theory as well as ethnography,his writing questions the human and environmental cost of economic growth. Outside his field,Ross is known as a recipient of the 1996 Ig Nobel Prize for literature for his part in the Sokal hoax.
Elizabeth Helen Cooper,,known as Helen Cooper,is a British literary scholar. From 2004 to 2014,she was Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge,and a fellow of Magdalene College,Cambridge.
Cambridge Judge Business School is the business school of the University of Cambridge. The School is a provider of management education. It is named after Sir Paul Judge,a founding benefactor of the school.
Sir Michael James Paul Arthur FMedSci is a British academic who was the tenth provost and president of University College London between 2013 and January 2021. Arthur had previously been chairman of the Russell Group of UK universities and the vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds between September 2004 and 2013.
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences or HVL is a Norwegian public institution of higher education,established in January 2017 through the merging of formerly independent colleges across five campuses:Bergen,Førde,Haugesund,Sogndal and Stord. Its oldest programs - teacher education in Stord - can be traced to 1839. The total number of students at HVL is about 16000,and there are 1800 academic and administrative staff. Its main campus is in the Kronstad neighborhood of Bergen,Norway.
The University of Abuja is a tertiary institution in the Nigerian capital,Abuja. It was established in January 1988 as a dual-mode university with the mandate to run conventional and distance learning programmes. Academic work began in the university in 1990 with the matriculation of its pioneer students.
Ben Witherington III is an American Wesleyan-Arminian New Testament scholar. Witherington is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary,a Wesleyan-Holiness seminary in Wilmore,Kentucky,and an ordained pastor in the United Methodist Church.
Rupert Read is an academic and a Green Party campaigner and a former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion. Read is a reader in philosophy at the University of East Anglia where he was awarded –as Principal Investigator –Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding for two projects on "natural capital". His other major recent academic focus has been on the precautionary principle,having contributed substantially to work co-authored with Nassim Nicholas Taleb on applying the principle to questions of genetic modification of organisms. In further work,Read has theorised the utility of the precautionary principle in a wide range of areas,including:climate change,the environment,as well as financial and technology sectors.
Simon E. Gikandi is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has also done important work on the modern African novel,and two distinguished African novelists:Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association.
Nicholas Boyle FBA is an English literary critic. He is the emeritus Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College,Cambridge. He has written widely on German literature,intellectual history and religion and is known particularly for his award-winning extensive biography of Goethe. Boyle became a fellow of the British Academy in 2000.
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge,United Kingdom. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231,Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most prestigious,currently ranked second best in the world and the best in Europe by QS World University Rankings. Among the university's most notable alumni are 11 Fields Medalists,seven Turing Award winners,47 heads of state,14 British prime ministers,194 Olympic medal-winning athletes,and some of world history's most transformational and iconic figures across disciplines,including Francis Bacon,Lord Byron,Oliver Cromwell,Charles Darwin,Stephen Hawking,John Maynard Keynes,John Milton,Vladimir Nabokov,Jawaharlal Nehru,Isaac Newton,Bertrand Russell,Manmohan Singh,Alan Turing,Ludwig Wittgenstein,and others. Cambridge alumni and faculty have won 121 Nobel Prizes,the most of any university in the world,according to the university.
Abdul Lateef Al Warari is a Moroccan poet and literary critic.
