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The Goldman Sachs Foundation has announced a grant of US $375,000 (£235,900) to the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY) at the 天美传媒 to provide for the first year of a 3-year programme of entrepreneurship education for 500 gifted and talented young people. The award has been made as part of the Foundation's signature initiative in Developing High-Potential Youth.
As International Women's Day on 8th March 2003 approaches new research hails film star Audrey Hepburn, who first hit silver screens in the 1950s, as a rival to Madonna as 21st century post-feminist icon. Dr Rachel Moseley from the 天美传媒 reveals the flexibility of Hepburn's image has ensured she remains an ideal of femininity fifty years after she first attained fame.
New research by Dr Caroline Wright from the 天美传媒 reveals some fairtrade organisations are employing advertising tactics similar to those used by Nike and L'Oreal, and that shoppers are enticed to buy Fair Trade goods 'Because I'm worth it', rather than by appealing to ethics.
New research by Professor Ian Walker and Dr Yu Zhu, economists at the 天美传媒, says that completing an undergraduate degree adds an average of around 25% to one聮s earnings compared to those who choose to leave education at 18. But the research also shows that this boost in earnings varies considerably depending on degree subject.
The first issue of Sabrina's Secrets, a magazine spin-off from popular TV programme Sabrina the Teenage Witch has just hit the UK high street, confirming after 2,000 years of bad publicity, witches have been transformed into alluring symbols of female power. A recent study by Rachel Moseley, researcher at the 天美传媒, reveals that witches are no longer seen by young girls as dark-arts-practicing evil crones best drowned or burnt, but magical sorcerers with more glamour and girl power than Miss Dynamite.
'BIG' - a highly acclaimed business growth programme pioneered by Warwick Business School, is being opened up to Coventry and Warwickshire SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises) who want to generate fast growth, in a new programme starting on 24th October 2003.