Monthly Archives: February 2017
Genius, obsession and new beginnings- take a look at our new DVDs.
The lives of two brilliant mathematicians from India and the USA, a teenager’s determination for a better life through literacy, a newly unemployed man who enrols in a college to try and start a new life, a stifled Oxford academic’s … Continue reading
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Tagged academics, Bideford, Brazil, Cambridge University, Cecchetto, Devon, Director, Dirk Bogarde, Duran Duran, DVDs, Europe (band), feature films, Films, G.H. Hardy, Harlem, Harold Pinter, illiteracy, Iran, Italy, John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928-2015), Joseph Losey, mathematics, Oxford University, paranoid schizophrenia, Rudyard Kipling, Sao Paulo, Srinavasa Ramanujan, symphonic orchestra, Trinity College Cambridge, United Services College
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Focus on India
Some of our students do wondrous things when they are here in London, so it’s no surprise that they continue their amazing work when then go home. One such student is Deepa Idnani, who was awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship for her Doctoral work … Continue reading
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Tagged country/student focus, India, International education
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Are Bhutan and Vanuatu world leaders? Thoughts for the International Day of Happiness
Happiness is a word with an intense golden glow and surely one of the main goals of each one of us every day of our lives; but it seems an elusive thing, difficult to define or measure or pursue systematically or collectively. … Continue reading
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