Promoting North-South and South-South cooperation is at the root of the strategy of the Programme that is being carried in partnership with the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), scientific unions of the International Council for Science (ICSU), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and other science centres, IGOs and NGOs.

UNESCO: 6th Meeting of IBSP Scientific Board

Britain's government hopes to get the same result from new Science Enterprise Centres at eight universities next year.

ECONOMIST: Biotechnology

Hands-on DNA workshops are being run by 15 science and discovery centres and museums across the UK, each acting as a specialist hub for schools in their region.

FORBES: There is No Great Stagnation

These included Mr. Walter Staveloz, Director of the International Relations Association of Science-Technology Centres in Washington DC, and Mr Owen Gaffney, Director of communications, International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

One unfortunate trend with the growth of higher education has been an increasing emphasis on exam and grades oriented learning, fueled by the proliferation of competitive entrance exams for science, engineering, medicine, law, etc. and tutorial centres who compete to prepare the students for these exams.

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