Organizations

International coalition assisting the poor and excluded to eradicate poverty and injustice. Founded in the UK in 1972 as child sponsors, now working as Action Aid International in over 40 countries, helping over 13 million of the world's most disadvanta ...

The Australian National University is unique among its contemporaries as the only Australian university established by an Act of Federal Parliament, in 1946. It is also one of Australia’s most research-intensive universities, with a high ratio of academic ...

Boston University is one of the leading private research and teaching institutions in the world today, with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world. It was established in 1839.Students 31,697, Faculty 3,812, Alumni 258,91 ...

The Mission of the University is embodied in the 1764 Charter:“Whereas Institutions for liberal Education are highly beneficial to Society by forming the rising Generation to Virtue Knowledge and usefull Literature, and thus preserving in the Community a ...

Ostensibly a non-profit making web resource for Uk Small press, underground and independent comics. Though occassionally casting an eye over the international comics arts scene. Founded in mid 2001, they have won international acclaim from the comics ...

The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, coeducational research university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering. Ca ...

The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the world and one of the largest in the United Kingdom.

Beginning in 1991, Caption is the UK's longest running comics arts festival. Set in the idyllic backdrop of Oxford, its a haven for paid professionals, fans and makers of mini-comics enjoying discussion  without the established conventions. Usually ...

Carnegie Mellon is a global research university of more than 10,000 students, 70,000 alumni and 4,000 faculty and staff. Recognized for its world-class arts and technology programs, collaboration across disciplines and innovative leadership in education, ...

Undergraduate students can choose from 58 major and 58 minor programmes offered by seven Faculties — Arts, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Medicine, Science, and Social Science — and the new School of Law. In addition, the Graduate School ...

One of the biggest international development agencies in the world, working with local partner organisations in over 60 countries around the world to help the world's poorest communities. They have offices worldwide. Christian Aid campaigns to change t ...

Founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the State of New York. Located in New York City.

Founded In 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White.Opened October 7, 1868. Morrill Hall was the first buildingconstructed on the main Ithaca campus, which today includesmore than 260 major buildings on 745 acres.Identity Cornell is the federal land- ...

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the ...

The University was founded in 1832, and developed in Durham and Newcastle until 1963, when the independent University of Newcastle upon Tyne came into being. The University is collegiate and is located in the city of Durham and the nearby town of Stockton ...

Since the creation of the first School in Paris in 1794, the Ecoles normales supérieures have always occupied a remarkable and prominent position in the realm of French education and research. Currently sharing mission statements and in close collaboratio ...

The ETH Zürich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich), often called Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, is a science and technology university in the City of Zürich, Switzerland. Locals sometimes refer to it by the name Poly, derived fro ...

The FBI mission is "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States."

Founded in Canada in 1971, the Greenpeace Foundation set out to oppose the testing of nuclear devices and global warming, though more recently they have become identified with the anti-whaling movement. With national and regional offices in many countri ...

The name Harvard comes from the college's first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown. Upon his death in 1638, he left half his estate to the institution established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts ...

The Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg is a public, comprehensive research university located in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Commonly referred to as University of Heidelberg, Ruperto Carola, or simply Heidelberg, it is the oldest universit ...

The University of Helsinki has the widest range of disciplines in Finland. It was established in Turku in 1640, but was transferred to Helsinki in 1828. The number of faculties is eleven. There are 38,806 degree students and 7,707 staff. The number of deg ...

Heriot-Watt is a university for business and industry at the forefront of research and teaching innovation. With campuses in Edinburgh, the Scottish Borders and Dubai, Heriot-Watt provides a top quality living and working environment. Our international fo ...

An off-shoot from rape survivor network Pandora's Aquarium. Spring-board site seeking to serve as a community base focussed towards secondary survivors: Partners, friends and family members of those who have endured sexual abuse.  The site includes ...

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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology admitted its first students in October 1991. The University is housed in a hillside and waterfront complex overlooking Port Shelter on the Clear Water Bay peninsula, less than 30 minutes' driving time from ce ...

Rated as the world's fifth best university in the THES  World University Rankings 2007, Imperial College London is a science-based institution with a reputation for excellence in teaching and research.Facts & figuresFounded 1907 12,129 full-time students ...

More commonly know as "Indymedia" A global network of participatory journalists closely associated with the global justice movement, making use of open publishing and democratic media. They offer grassroots, non-corporate coverage distributed in ...

America's first research university. Hopkins is a world leader in research and education in medicine, public health, the arts, sciences, and engineering.The Johns Hopkins University opened Feb. 22, 1876, with the inauguration of its first president, Danie ...

Situated in the heart of Western Europe, K.U.Leuven has been a centre of learning for almost six centuries. Founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V, K.U.Leuven bears the double honour of being the oldest extant Catholic university in the world and the oldest uni ...

Former Russian equivalent of the American CIA and British MI5.

King's College London is a British higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by King George IV in 1829, its royal charter is predated only by those of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Ki ...

Kyoto University is the second oldest university in Japan, and formerly one of the Imperial Universities of Japan. The university has a total of about 22,000 students enrolled in its undergraduate and graduate programs.Kyoto University has historically ad ...

Moscow State University was established in 1755.More than 40 000 undergraduates and about 7 000 postgraduates study at the university, and over 5 000 specialists do the refresher course here. More than 4 000 professors and lecturers, and about 5 000 resea ...

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a world class centre for its concentration of teaching and research across the full range of the social, political and economic sciences. Founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, LSE has an ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is ...

McGill University is one of Canada's best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the country's leading research-intensive universities. With students coming to McGill from about 140 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse ...

Mizzima News is a Burmese news organization promoting democracy and and freedom of expression by improving the flow of information in and out of Burma since August 1998. The International Press Institute awarded Mizzima News its Free Media Pioneer award ...

Monash is a dynamic and internationally recognised university with a long established tradition in providing excellence in education. It is highly regarded for its innovative approach to teaching, research and learning and our graduates are sought after b ...

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a multi-campus university of global standing, with distinctive strengths in education and research and an entrepreneurial dimension. It offers a comprehensive range of disciplines ranging from architecture to ...

Founded in 1831 to enlarge the scope of higher education: includes thirteen schools, colleges, and divisions at five major centers in Manhattan. NYU is the largest private, nonprofit institution of higher education in the United States, with an enrollment ...

Two campuses located on Lake Michigan: a 240-acre campus in Evanston, the first suburb north of Chicago, and a 25-acre campus in Chicago.Additional part-time students bring the University's total enrollment to approximately 17,000.Approximately 190,000 al ...

The academic origins of Osaka University trace back to Kaitokudo, the Edo-period school for citizens, and Tekijuku, the school of Rangaku (founded in 1838). Osaka Imperial University was inaugurated as the sixth imperial university in Japan in 1931.Underg ...

According to its website, "Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 organizations working with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice". Growing out of an association of Oxford quakers, ...

Oxford's second university. "Oxford Brookes is consistently the top-performing modern university in our league table".  Sunday Times University Guide 2006

The University of Oxford is one of the leading universities in the world.

Pandora's Aquarium is an online support group, message board, & chat room for rape, sexual abuse, & sexual assault survivors. The name of the site is taken from a song by Tori Amos. It boasts a support network of over 30,000 members and contains many ...

Peking University is a comprehensive and National key university. The campus, known as "Yan Yuan"-- the gardens of Yan, is situated at the  northeast of the Haidian District at the western suburbs of Beijing. It stands near the Yuan Ming Gardens and the S ...

People and Planet is a network of student campaign group network in the UK. It claims to be "the largest student campaigning organisation in the country campaigning to alleviate world poverty, defend human rights, and protect the environment." ...