Nurturing neglected minds

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Child psychiatrist Michael Rutter is delighted to report that many of the 165 Romanian orphans adopted into British families whose progress he has studied over the past five years have not been damaged for life. However he found that the longer the children had spent in East European orphanages, the worse the prognosis for their development. Rutter's lifetime's research into the relationship between nature and nurture has led him to conclude that their effect on a person's intelligence is about equal and that the real question is the way in which the two interact to affect child development.

Research, Interview, Psychiatrists, Child psychiatry, Rutter, Michael

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Where you can hit the beach running

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Deputy vice-chancellor of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Peter Darvall explains that the Australian lifestyle is the major draw for academics from abroad. Medical research, environmental research and IT are among the subjects with good job prospects. Australian universities have suffered three years of government funding cuts but Simon Poole, who left England in 1988, declares that the opportunities he has had in Australia are far superior to those he would have had in the UK. Academics must be nominated by a university to work in Australia.

Australia, Universities and colleges, Schools, British, British in foreign countries

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Andrew Hurrell

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Following the US terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, international relations lecturer and Nuffield College fellow Andrew Hurrell delivered an introductory lecture on international relations to a group of 250 Oxford University students, including President Bill Clinton's daughter, Chelsea. Hurrell's talk covered the issues of globalisation, nationalism, and ethnicity.

International relations, Speeches, lectures and essays, Educators, Hurrell, Andrew

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