Though London is among the world's most cosmopolitan cities, restaurant reviews there often show disdain for places frequented by foreigners, and British academic institutions still cast an amused eye on American literature and continental philosophy.
The aim of our study was to assess the prevalence of domestic and community violence among the patients (Swiss natives and foreigners) of an academic general internal medicine clinic.
She acknowledges the difficulty for foreigners in securing permanent academic positions in this former seat of Viking power, particularly those from outside of Scandinavian countries, who may be unfamiliar with the language.
It coincided with a spate of other arrests of academics and foreigners, which at the time raised fears about a re-emergence of Russia's security services.
In the minds of civil-liberties watchdogs here, Mr. Pasko's battle bears a disturbing similarity to a string of other cases against journalists, academics and foreigners who have attracted unfavorable attention from Russia's security organs.
Experts have said they believe the murder of the Cambridge PhD student, whose body was found in a ditch more than a week after he disappeared in January, bore all the hallmarks of Egypt's notorious secret service and could have been motivated by his status as a foreigner or as an academic investigating labour unions.
In the worldview of Modi and his supporters, the jholawalas are bracketed with other objects of suspicion: the entrenched power elites of Delhi; the liberal media and the politicians of the Congress party; Marxists and academics and foreigners who comment upon Indian affairs.
FONT SIZE=-1>BEIJING--China's prestigious Qinghua University made history this month by appointing an American scientist to lead its industrial engineering program, the first time a foreigner has headed an academic department in China since the Communists came to power in 1949.
The High Education Board has given universities until August 5 to send detailed reports about every one of their top academics, including foreigners, to ascertain whether they have any relations with Gulen.
Exberliner was introduced in 2002; within a year, its founders had established a real estate rental agency to handle the demand from foreigners, particularly artists, musicians and academics.
