Vaccine rollout makes UK a more attractive study location
The United Kingdom’s successful rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is making the country more attractive to international students, according to new global research.
Nearly one in five (17%) prospective international students interested in studying in the UK think it is the best country in the world in terms of distributing the vaccine to its population.
Almost half (47%) of students think the UK is becoming a more attractive destination to international students as a result of its vaccine distribution – which is more complete than in countries that are key competitors for international students, such as the United States, Canada, Australia and Germany – according to the research from Quacquarelli Symonds, the higher education think-tank and compilers of the QS World University Rankings.
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Why world-class status is still mostly out of reach
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic with a population of around 18.5 million, continues its struggle for Europeanisation. Kazakhstan is known for its dry steppes, natural resources, vast oil fields and profitable uranium exports.
This geographically large, but scarcely populated country, located in the Middle East and Central Asia region, barely attracts the world’s attention, except when it comes to political grand corruption scandals.
Nevertheless, Kazakhstan’s politics is not all about corruption. Kazakhstan’s national leader and former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, used revenues from the country’s natural resources to advance progressive reforms, including in the education arena.
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A continental-scale network of conservation sites is likely to remain effective under future climate change scenarios, despite a predicted shift in key species distributions.
New research, led by Durham University and published in the journal
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, investigates the impacts of potential climate change scenarios on the network of Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) across the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
The research was carried out in collaboration with Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, BirdLife International and the National Audubon Society.
IBAs are sites identified as being internationally important for the conservation of bird populations, with over 13,000 sites identified across 200 countries in the last 40 years. Many are covered by formal protected areas, while others are conserved by community-managed reserves or indigenous lands.