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 The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) is the voice of Canada's universities. They represent 95 Canadian public and private not-for-profit universities and university-degree level colleges. They have provided strong and effective representation for members, in Canada and abroad. Its mandate is to facilitate the development of public policy on higher education and to encourage cooperation among universities and governments, industry, communities, and institutions in other countries. The link address is: http://www.aucc.ca/

 The Association of Arab and European Universities (AEUA) was established to respond to the growing need for an effective vehicle to provide Arab and European universities with improved access to the MEDA II Programme. The prime objective of AEUA is to facilitate and to stimulate collaboration between universities in European and Arab countries at an institutional, departmental and faculty level. This type of partnership - to develop human resources and promote understanding between cultures and exchanges between the civil societies involved - is key. The link address is: http://www.aeua.net/

Legend has it that Apple’s rainbow-coloured logo showing the apple with a bite out of it is in homage to Alan Turing “the father of modern computing”. Turing died of cyanide poisoning on 7 June 1954, two years after being convicted of homosexuality and accepting chemical castration instead of prison. A half-eaten apple was found next to him, and one theory is that he’d laced it with cyanide, his own homage to the wicked queen in Snow White, his favourite Disney cartoon. Another theory is that he died accidentally after inhaling cyanide fumes from apparatus he had in his bedroom for electroplating spoons. A third explanation is that he really did commit suicide, but set up the apparatus so his mother would think it was an accident. The coroner didn’t test the apple for cyanide, so we’ll never know for sure.
If there are doubts about Turing’s death, his life is fairly well-known, or at least some aspects of it. His most noteworthy exploit for the general public was helping to break the code of the Enigma machines the Germans used to communicate with their submarines during the Second World War. If you’d like to get some idea of how he did it, take a look at the excerpts from the “Enigma Paper” in Alan Turing, His Work and Impact, just published by Elsevier. Cryptography is the second of four parts of this thousand-page overview presenting Turing’s most significant works from the four-volume Collected Works along with comment, analysis and anecdote from leading scholars. The other three parts are on Turing’s contributions to computability, artificial intelligence, and biology. Read more...

 The South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) is an independent statutory body responsible for advising the Minister of Higher Education and Training on all higher education policy issues, and for quality assurance in higher education and training. The CHE was established in May 1998, the responsibilities assigned to the CHE can be grouped into four main areas of work: advising the Minister of Education; assuming executive responsibility for quality assurance and quality promotion within higher education and training; monitoring and evaluating whether, how, to what extent and with what consequences the vision, policy goals and objectives for higher education are being realised; and contributing to the development of higher education by taking initiatives to provide guidance on key national and systemic issues. The link address is: http://www.che.ac.za/

 The Association of Caribbean Tertiary Institutions (ACTI) is an Association of Tertiary Educational Institutions in the Caribbean region. The member institutions are Universities, Colleges, Community Colleges, Teacher Training Colleges, National Colleges, State Colleges, and Technical Colleges. ACTI aims to create within the Caribbean region of a learning Society which offers opportunity, and strives for quality and harmony in the divers tertiary education environment.

 The Association of Arab Universities (AARU), founded in 1964 is an Arab organization with an independent legal entity. AARU's objectives are mainly to enhance cooperation amongst Arab universities and to coordinate their efforts with a view to raising the quality of university and higher education. The link address is: http://www.aaru.edu.jo/