The terms of the popular debate over racial and gender preferences often mirrored the arguments philosophers and other academics were making to each other.
What is striking is the urgency with which some prominent Chinese academics are making the same case.
From my experience, academics are making every effort to keep the curriculum wider than just some sort of basically functional learning, and that's what society needs".
But today, thanks to the scholarship programme, young female academics are making their mark in higher education institutions across the country.
Greer, a prominent women's rights activist, journalist and academic was made famous for writing the 1970 book The Female Eunuch, which promoted the freedom of women to determine their own values.
When private e-mail conversations from JournoList -- a liberal-leaning e-mail forum created for political reporters and academics -- were made public, it forced WaPo reporter, Dave Weigel, to resign because of his negative comments about Matt Drudge and Tea Party members.
The largest individual cash gifts during the last academic year were made to the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, King's College London, Nottingham Trent and London Business School.
When the school began receiving academic awards, they were made into banners and displayed prominently.
Comparisons by age (<50 years versus >49 years), sex, setting (rural, suburban versus urban), medical specialty (family medicine versus general medicine), and working or not at an academic teaching centre were made using the chi-square test.
The patents are assigned to the academic institution(s) where inventions were made.
