| Not that long ago, a major concern amongst university | | | | washed away. |
| administrations and student recruiters in the UK and | | | | One likely thing is that the clean-up will include a deep |
| Australia was the effect the increased threats of | | | | look at what can be done to protect some of the |
| terrorism against those countries - and the US - would | | | | world's greatest universities, their facilities - and their |
| have on the numbers of students who wanted to do | | | | students. For the most part, terrorism has been a treat |
| advanced academic work in those countries. Would | | | | that has manifested mostly in London - and terrorist |
| parents wanting to give their children the best | | | | attacks have not had an only-in-England stamp. As but |
| educational advantages available also send their | | | | one conspicuous example, the generations-old conflicts |
| children into potential war zones? | | | | between native Thai Buddhist and separatist Thai |
| The actual effect has been hard to measure, since the | | | | Muslim populations in Thailand's southernmost three |
| factor is not easily quantifiable. | | | | provinces have, over the last year, reached new |
| Right now, one of the world's biggest security threats - | | | | peaks of violence sparked by an energized |
| a steadily heating global climate and the extreme | | | | insurgencies. Thai students thinking of studying abroad |
| weather changes that seem to be caused by it - is | | | | in countries such as the UK would be only too familiar |
| striking the UK at its literal heart, giving universities | | | | with the ubiquity of world terrorism. |
| throughout the country a host of new things to worry | | | | How universities everywhere - not just in the UK - deal |
| about. Britain is undergoing its greatest flooding in at | | | | with the 'extreme weather' we have been told to |
| least 60 years - not incidentally at the same time | | | | prepare for throughout the world could have profound |
| southern Europe is withering under a record heat | | | | effects on the very nature of the educations those |
| wave that has taken the lives of at least 60 people as | | | | universities offer. Until now, they have, for the most |
| of this writing. | | | | part, promised advanced insights and training in the |
| A glimpse at a map of the areas hardest hit by the | | | | practices of international business. Now that global |
| floods in England bring place names renowned | | | | climate change in all its aspects is threatening to |
| throughout the world. The prime example, Oxford, on | | | | become a 'growth industry' - from earth science to |
| the River Thames, is synonymous with British higher | | | | public policy - the opportunity to educate and train |
| education. It's still what newscaster call 'early days', so | | | | young students in a range of new knowledge and skill |
| there's no telling what the damage to Oxford and | | | | areas they may well need to survive, wherever they |
| others of Britain's top universities have been or will | | | | live and work after earning advanced degrees, is one |
| eventually be. At the time of this writing, the concern is | | | | they will miss at the world's collective peril. |
| still for saving lives and whole towns from being | | | | |