Central to its praise is the recognition that the best education systems in the world, such as in Finland, forge close links between schools and universities and that most of our education experts are based at university.
For example, relatively few participants had been able to forge close links with other (UK) doctoral nursing students and relatively few seemed to have become engaged in wider departmental research activities.
Mr Hattab was edged out of the leadership of the GSPC four years ago, supposedly for opposing a proposal to forge closer links with al-Qaida.
The most important thing is for Europe to use the opportunity to forge closer links on budgets and banking to make the region more resilient, he said.
Analysts and diplomats described the Harasta attack as a possible turning-point that could help forge closer links between exiled and internal opposition groups.
With the UK's training programme in place, the way appears to have been clear for Britain's intelligence and security agencies to forge closer links with RAB.
But it has increasingly tried to forge closer links with producing nations and last weekend asked Russia to consider joining its ranks.
Finance directors need to forge closer links with colleagues, he said, for example by asking the fundraising team if they can attend their weekly team meeting.
The British Council said the meeting in Addis Ababa, and another due to take place in Mombasa, Kenya, later this week, were a "a unique opportunity to forge closer links and to build greater cultural understanding" between different communities.
The first-generation iTag device can detect only one radio frequency at a time, so it will probably be given away free by a station to its customers as a way to forge closer links between listeners and advertisers.
Had the tunnel inspired the two countries to forge closer links and made the border crossing an irrelevance -- as is the case with most of the other borders within the old European Union -- then traffic would have been much greater.
