scholarly journals Address of the President, Sir Ernest Rutherford, O. M., at the anniversary meeting, November 30, 1928

1929 ◽  
Vol 104 (729) ◽  
pp. 97-119
Keyword(s):  
University Education ◽  
Ernest Rutherford ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Foreign Member ◽  
Deep Interest

During the past year the losses to our Society by death have been unusually heavy, including three Foreign Members, thirteen Fellows, and two Fellows elected under Statute 12, the Earl of Oxford and Asquith and Viscount Haldane. While the main work of Lord Haldane lay in legal and administrative fields, he always had a deep interest in science and its philosophy, and gave much valuable help to the cause of University Education. The death of Prof. P. H. von Groth, Foreign Member of our Society, at the age of 84, removes a notable figure from the Science of Mineralogy. Distinguished as investigator and writer and editor for 39 years of the 'Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie,' he widely influenced the development of his science, and by his own researches and through his students made notable contributions to our knowledge.

scholarly journals Address of the President, Sir Ernest Rutherford, O. M., at the Anniversary Meeting, November 30, 1928

1929 ◽  
Vol 122 (789) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
University Education ◽  
Ernest Rutherford ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Foreign Member ◽  
Deep Interest

During the past year the losses to our Society by death have been unusually heavy, including three Foreign Members, thirteen Fellows, and two Fellows elected under Statute 12, the Earl of Oxford and Asquith and Viscount Haldane. While the main work of Lord Haldane lay in legal and administrative fields, he always had a deep interest in science and its philosophy, and gave much valuable help to the cause of University Education. The death of Prof. P. H. von Groth, Foreign Member of our Society, at the age of 84, removes a notable figure from the Science of Mineralogy. Distinguished as investigator and writer and editor for 39 years of the ‘Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie,’ he widely influenced the development of his science, and by his own researches and through his students made notable contributions to our knowledge.

scholarly journals Address of the President, Sir Ernest Rutherford, O. M., at the anniversary meeting, December 1, 1930

1931 ◽  
Vol 107 (752) ◽  
pp. 348-368
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Great Part ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Indirect Benefit ◽  
Ernest Rutherford ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Scientific Objects ◽  
Foreign Member

At this, our Annual Meeting, we are naturally conscious of the severe losses in our ranks in the course of the year. We have to deplore the removal by death of some of the best known and most valued Fellows, including Lord Balfour and Sir William McCormick, elected under Statute 12, Professor Le Bel, Foreign Member, and twelve Fellows of the Society. The death of the Earl of Balfour at the age of 82 removed from our midst a public figure of the first magnitude. Although Balfour's activities covered a wide field, and although a great part of his career he carried heavy responsibilities in guiding the affairs of the Nation, science was always with him a topic of primary interest. If he cannot be said to have made original contributions to scientific knowledge himself, there can be no doubt that his championship of the cause of science was of the greatest indirect benefit. As First Lord of the Treasury in 1900, he did much to help forward the scheme for the National Physical Laboratory, in which his brother-in-Law, Lord Rayleigh was interesting himself. He was constantly called upon to preside, or to speak, at meetings for the furtherance of scientific objects, or the commemoration of the great scientific careers of the past, and seldom failed to add distinction to such occasions. He may indeed be regarded as a chief interpreter of science to the English public during his generation. He was President of the British Association at Cambridge in 1904. He was elected to the Royal Society under Statute 12, as early as 1888, at the age of 40 years. He served on the Council in 1907-08 and again in 1912-14. But, perhaps, his chief work for science was the Minister responsible for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and for the Medical Research Council. Of the latter body he acted as chairman until the onset of his illness. He watched the scientific interests under these departments with close personal attention, and did much to establish them on a permanent basis. Finally, to him was due the Committee of Civil Research, complementary to his order creation of the Committee of Imperial Defence. He was Chancellor of the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and President of the British Academy. His is a place which will not easily be filled.

scholarly journals Statistical analysis of the structure and dynamics of material and human resources in public education over the past two academic years in Bacau

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Harja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Material Basis

The public university education in Bacau, represented by “Vasile Alecsandri” University from Bacau has developed over the past two years not only in terms of student numbers, but as human and material resources available to them. After the number of students per teacher, public higher education from Bacau is situated on the second place after Iasi, the number of teachers representing 1% of the country. The structure by scientific degrees of teachers has improved in the last year, reaching over 36% professors and lecturers and 144 PhDs. Over 55% of the teachers are younger than 40 years. The material basis has improved both quantitatively and qualitatively by putting into use a new building, bringing an additional 27 classrooms and 11 seminar rooms and providing the conditions of modern higher education.

scholarly journals What if Classroom Instruction Becomes a Thing of the Past?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Mu
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
University Education ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Virtual Instruction ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean

Until recently, there was no doubt about what constituted a university education and how it was carried out. Suddenly, the COVID-19 pandemic occurred, and in a few weeks, not only education, but the entire world changed. In the new normal, post-pandemic world, it is possible that teaching face-to-face courses will be the exception, not the rule, in the U.S. and the Latin American and Caribbean regions. Furthermore, this virtual instruction will possibly be at massive levels with tens or hundreds of thousands of students at a time, modeled after massive open online courses (MOOCs).

scholarly journals Sciences and audiences along the last century: the impact of Astronomy Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 474-478
Author(s):  
Rosa M. Ros ◽  
Beatriz Garca
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In ◽  
Science Activities

AbstractJust as in the past, the development of the natural sciences and in particular of astronomy has changed the history of humanity. If we think about the role of our discipline into the future, it shows its enormous power in the field of education, owing to the possibility of awakening interest in science in very varied audiences. Within the framework of the enormous progress made in the technologies related to astronomy, many of them of daily use, the role of the astronomer in the era of Communications acquires fundamental importance.In this presentation, we will try to make a journey through the different ways of presenting astronomical topics for different audiences over the last 100 years. In turn, we will show some specific achievements, associated with education programmes of the discipline. We discuss the impact produced by proposals that are both rigorous in terms of content, and also appeal to the development of the human being in an integral manner, within the framework of citizen science activities.For this research, we have taken into account the uninterrupted development of the NASE programme, which has performed 112 courses in 24 countries throughout the world and in different languages. NASE has involved 4966 secondary teachers in the last eight years.

scholarly journals Address of the President, Sir Ernest Rutherford, O. M., at the anniversary meeting, December 1, 1930

1931 ◽  
Vol 130 (813) ◽  
pp. 239-259 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Great Part ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Indirect Benefit ◽  
Ernest Rutherford ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Foreign Member

At this, our Annual Meeting, we are naturally conscious of the severe losses in our ranks in the course of the year. We have to deplore the removal by death of some of the best known and most valued Fellows, including Lord Balfour and Sir William McCormick, elected under Statute 12, Professor Le Bel, Foreign Member, and twelve Fellows of the Society. The death of the Earl of Balfour at the age of 82 removed from our midst a public figure of the first magnitude. Although Balfour's activities covered a wide field, and although through a great part of his career he carried heavy responsibilities in guiding the affairs of the Nation, science was always with him a topic of primary interest. If he cannot be said to have made original contributions to scientific knowledge himself, there can be no doubt that his championship of the cause of science was of the greatest indirect benefit. As First Lord of the Treasury in 1900, he did much to help forward the scheme for the National Physical Laboratory, in which his brother-in-law, Lord Rayleigh was interesting himself.

scholarly journals Address of the President Sir Henry Dale, O.M., G.B.E., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1944

1945 ◽  
Vol 132 (869) ◽  
pp. 333-347
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Annual Number ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
The Past ◽  
Deep Interest

The annual number of Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society published today, and the names which have just been read to us, remind us of the losses the Society has suffered. Allow me first to make brief mention of the last service rendered to the Society by one who had long been devoted to its interests, and whose name is among those of the Fellows whom death has taken from us during the past year. Sir Henry Lyons, who was our Foreign Secretary for a year, and then achieved so much for the Society in his full term of service as Treasurer, had acquired in that period a deep interest in the handling of the Society’s business and in the changes in its structure and its administration over the centuries of its history. He devoted the last four years of his fife, under conditions which must have deterred any less resolute enthusiast, to the writing of an historical account of the administration of the Royal Society under its Charters, and at the time of his death, last August, he was eagerly awaiting its publication, which war-time difficulties had long delayed. This long expected contribution to our history was published a few weeks ago, and the Society will welcome and cherish it, not only as a record of value and interest in itself, but in memory of one to whose devoted labours the Society and its Fellows owe so much.

The Decision to Enter Medicine: Motivations, Social Support, and Discouragements for Women

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy G. Kutner ◽  
Donna R. Brogan
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medical Career ◽  
Early Decision ◽  
Previous Occupation

Responses from 93% of the women medical students enrolled in two southern medical schools in 1975–1976 indicated that wanting to serve others, desire for independence in one's work, and interest in science were strong motivations for entering medicine. These motivations also characterized men. Women, more often than men, cited the challenge of a medical career, and they showed more interest in high occupational prestige than have women medical school applicants in the past. Women reported less social support for an early decision than did their male peers. Dissatisfaction with a previous occupation frequently influenced women's choice of medicine. Although women were more likely than men to cite sources of encouragement for their decision, they were also more likely than men to have been discouraged from entering medicine.

scholarly journals NÅR KULTUR KOMMER I VEJEN: Kapitalmøder og kulturforståelser på en international uddannelse i Danmark

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisanne Wilken
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
University Education ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Home Team ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Context Knowledge

Over the past 10-15 years internationalisation has become a buzz word in university education. International institutions as well as national and regional governments promote international exchange of students and teachers, and universities compete to attract foreign students. Internationalisation is generally based on the idea of intercultural compatibility, which implies that ‘scholastic capital’ fairly easily can be transferred from one university context to another and that educational settings can promote and benefit from cultural diversity. With reference to a study of one internationalised educational setting in Denmark, this article explores some of the less recognised challenges in relation to internationalisation of university education. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital and Gregory Bateson’s concept of framing, the article argues that the combination of differences in cultural capital and differences in locally embedded ‘context knowledge’ may produce obstacles to fruitful intercultural interaction. It argues, moreover, that the interactions between students are to a large extent based on an unequal relationship between a home-team and a foreign team rather than on an equal relationship between different nationalities. The obstacles this creates are, to a large extent, unacknowledged, because individuals tend to interpret differences as ‘national differences’.

scholarly journals On University Historiography in Hungary: An Overview of the Past 25 Years = Sobre la Historia de la Universidad en Hungría: un repaso a los últimos 25 años

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
László Szögi
Keyword(s):  
Carpathian Basin ◽  
University Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
The Past ◽  
University History ◽  
Foreign Universities

Abstract: In the following paper we display the development of writings about universities history in the last 25 years. It is important to underline that we use the name of Hungary as a historical definition. In this case it means the whole territory of the Carpathian Basin, because the current boarders were created in 1920. Since the Hungarian universities were founded late the possibility of attendance at foreign universities represented great importance. Nowadays, we possess a database with more than 100.000 records about Hungarian students who attended foreign universities before 1918. Many Source editions, analyses and monographs were published in this topic. The purpose of the following article is to summarize the most notable volumes.Resumen: En el presente artículo analizamos el desarrollo de los trabajos sobre la historia las universidades en los últimos 25 años. Es importante subrayar que usamos el nombre de Hungría como una definición histórica. En este caso nos referimos a todo el territorio de la Cuenca de los Cárpatos, debido a que las fronteras actuales fueron creadas en 1920. Dado que las universidades húngaras se fundaron tarde, la posibilidad de asistir a universidades extranjeras adquirió gran importancia. Hoy en día contamos con una base de datos con más de 100.000 registros sobre los estudiantes húngaros que asistieron a universidades extranjeras antes de 1918. Muchos compendios de fuentes, análisis y monografías se publicaron sobre este tema. El propósito del artículo que sigue es reseñar los trabajos más notables.Keywords: source editions, monographs on university history, Hungarian university education, students, Youth Clubs.Palabras clave: compendios de fuentes, monografías sobre Historia de la Universidad, Educación universitaria húngara, estudiantes, Youth Clubs 

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