Global Headhunting

摘要

When next year's crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they'll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost of Yale, who will become Oxford's vice chancellor-a position equivalent to university president in the United States, with responsibility for the day-to-day running of the prestigious institution. Hamilton, a distinguished chemist, isn't the only educator crossing the pond. Others include Louise Richardson, who was executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard before her appointment as principal of St. Andrews, Scotland's oldest university. Schools in France, Egypt, Singapore and elsewhere have also recently made top-level hires from abroad.