• From a Weekend First

    14-08-08 From a Weekend First Paul Farley One for the money. Arrangements in green and grey from the window of an empty dining-car. No takers for this Burgundy today apart from me. I'll raise a weighted stem to my homeland scattering by, be grateful for thes...

  • 星巴克为美国员工支付大学学费

    14-06-16 US coffee chain firm Starbucks will pay college fees for US workers to complete a bachelor's degree online in a tie-up with Arizona State University. 美国连锁咖啡企业星巴克与亚利桑那州立大学联合举行活动,将为旗下员工支付学费以取得学士学位。 US emplo...

  • student rector 学生校长

    14-04-28 Intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has been elected to the post of student rector at Glasgow University. 爆料者斯诺登被英国格拉斯哥大学的学生选举为学生校长。 学生校长(student rector)是格拉斯哥大学的高级职位之一,由学生选举产生,每届任期三年...

  • The most wanted autograph 最想要的签名

    14-04-08 Our university newspaper runs a weekly question feature. Recently, the question was: Whose autograph would you most want to have, and why? As expected, most responses mentioned music or sports stars, or politicians. The best response came from a fre...

  • Taking attendance 点名

    14-04-08 On my first day of classes at my university I took a front-row seat in my literature course. The professor told us we would be responsible for reading five books, and that he would provide us with a list of authors from which we could choose. Then h...

  • 多睡一小时 身体会更健康

    14-03-21 The average Briton gets six-and-a-half hours' sleep a night, according to the Sleep Council. Michael Mosley took part in an unusual experiment to see if this is enough. 调查显示,英国人平均每天只睡6.5小时。为了验证这样的睡眠是否足够,迈克尔莫斯利医...

  • 斯诺登将竞选英国学生校长

    14-01-28 Intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden is to stand for the post of student rector at Glasgow University. 美国国家安全局棱镜项目曝光者爱德华斯诺登将于2月竞选英国格拉斯哥大学学生校长。 The nomination of the former US intelligence officer, who has t...

  • 威廉王子将学习农业管理课程

    14-01-05 Great responsibilities will rest on his shoulders one day. But in the meantime, Prince William is going back to being a student. The future king starts a ten-week course in agricultural management at Cambridge University next week. 英国剑桥公爵威廉...

  • 普林斯顿大学登顶2014全美最佳大学排行榜

    13-09-21 U.S. News World Report has named Princeton University the best college in the United States, with the University of California-Berkeley the top public school, at No. 20 overall. 综合外国媒体报道,美国《美国新闻与世界报道》杂志2014年全美最佳大学排行...

  • 英美包揽世界大学最新排名前十

    13-09-13 在最新出炉的QS世界大学排名中,英国有6所大学进了前20名,其中,剑桥大学(第三)、伦敦大学学院(第四)、帝国理工学院(第五)以及牛津大学(第六)跻身前十名。美国的大学仍然在前20名中占多数位置,其中,麻省理工学院和哈佛大学占据了前两位。 The UK now boasts...