New donors back commonwealth of learning

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The president of the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) is seeking financial support from non-governmental organisations to supplement its declining funding from Commonwealth governments. CoL was founded at the Vancouver Commonwealth Summit of 1987 to supply distance education for people previously marginalised in educational terms for reasons such as poverty or geographical isolation. Since it became operational in 1989, CoL has implemented projects in over 40 countries, but it has had its C$9 million budget halved in the last four years.

Finance, Social policy, Distance education, Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth of Learning

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Toronto pulls job offer from Prozac critic

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UK psychopharmacologist David Healy has had a job offer from the University of Toronto withdrawn after he gave a talk in which he said Prozac could lead to suicide. Prozac manufacturer Eli Lilly is a financial donor to the University, but the University denies this link affected its decision.

Human resource management, Pharmaceutical industry, Investments, Universities and colleges, Complications and side effects, Recruiting, Eli Lilly and Co., LLY, Prozac (Medication), University of Toronto, Healy, David

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Iran lost a soldier, but the medical world gained

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Majid Fotuhi hid in a bathroom for two years to avoid being conscripted as an Iranian soldier in the Iran-Iraq war. He studied in Canada and the US, and in 2000 is a leading neuroscientist specialising in research on strokes.

Research, Education, Behavior, Stroke (Disease), Stroke, Draft resisters, Fotuhi, Majid

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