Teachers are invited to submit their best photo that captures the spirit of the theme “?" Kizuna: Bringing People Together”. (Kizuna is a Japanese word meaning bonds.) The word has become an important symbol after the recent devastating earthquake and tsunami as people work together to rebuild their lives. It was chosen as “Kanji of the Year” 2011.

15 images will be chosen, and visitors to the gallery will vote for their favorite photograph. The winning image will be announced on the Cengage Learning Japan website. The winning photographer will receive an exclusive National Geographic camera shoulder bag and all 15 photographers chosen will receive a limited edition leather bound Collins COBUILD dictionary.

More details available on the Cengage Learning Japan website.

See also:
• Cengage rebrands ELT division
• Steve King joins Heinle

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Teachers are invited to submit their best photo that captures the spirit of the theme “?" Kizuna: Bringing People Together”. (Kizuna is a Japanese word meaning bonds.) The word has become an important symbol after the recent devastating earthquake and tsunami as people work together to rebuild their lives. It was chosen as “Kanji of the Year” 2011.

15 images will be chosen, and visitors to the gallery will vote for their favorite photograph. The winning image will be announced on the Cengage Learning Japan website. The winning photographer will receive an exclusive National Geographic camera shoulder bag and all 15 photographers chosen will receive a limited edition leather bound Collins COBUILD dictionary.

More details available on the Cengage Learning Japan website.

See also:
• Cengage rebrands ELT division
• Steve King joins Heinle

View the original article here

It was revealed that the billionaire chairman of Benesse, Soichiro Fukutake, has a soft spot for New Zealand. The chairman of the company that owns Berlitz and is the largest education company in Japan regularly commutes between downtown Auckland and the company's corporate headquarters in Okayama, Japan.

Cambridge University Press has launched a digital content platform for libraries which it says will become "one of the largest and most significant repositories of digital academic material in the world.” From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide institutions with e-books and "related database products” from publishers across the world. It is based on Cambridge Books Online, which offers access to front and backlist PDF titles.

Dr Andrew Brown, Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press, said: “A key concept of University Publishing Online is to preserve the individual identity of each of its publishing partners, as every academic press makes a unique contribution to the world of scholarship through its own particular process of selecting, editing and presenting material. By respecting these differences, while offering the contributions of all on a single platform with a highly sophisticated common search engine, University Publishing Online will set new standards for the integration of key academic content with a user-friendly interface and customer-oriented purchasing models of unrivalled flexibility.”

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