HospitalsAsylums
Anthony J. Sanders,
1st Draft HA-26-5-05 Publication Date HA-5-6-05
2 page Essay Justifying Application to the MERIT UNU/INTECH Ph.D. Programme in Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change in Maastricht
Attachments: (1) Application
(2) Support Form
The application form for the UNU/INTECH PhD programme in Economics and Policy
Studies of Technical Changes requires a two page essay that explains (1) reasons for
wanting to participate in this programme of study including background and interest
in the analysis of technical change and (2) an explanation of international professional
and/or academic experience, including any extended visits or residency outside of your
own country of residence. This essay has therefore been drafted to answer these
questions to the satisfaction of the United Nations University and the referees who have
been requested to submit letters in support of the application.
On May 25, 2005 I wrote, Dear United Nations University: I was overjoyed to discover UNU while researching a letter of intent to apply to ECOSOC for recognition as an NGO before the 1 June deadline for the next year that you can read from Appendix to Text at The UNU Charter helped me to freely express my experience and interests as a scholar in terms of intellectual isolation and academic freedom. I hope that no one will object to being matriculated in the HA email list. I have a BA in international affairs and am interested in studying with your school. Maybe UNU would grant an honorary law degree and/or publish the Hospitals & Asylums Statute (HAS) by Sanders, Tony J. at in manuscript form.
The next day I received a response that stated,Dear Anthony:Thankyou for your inquiry regarding courses of study here at the United Nations University - Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH). We conduct a Ph.D programme in The Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change in collaboration with MERIT of the University of Maastricht. The admission to this program is only once in two years. Therefore the next entry is in September 2007 for which the admissions process will commence from November/December 2006. In case you are interested, you are requested to write to us during that time. For more details about our Ph.D Programme, you are kindly requested to visit our webpage: Best wishes: Yours sincerely, Monique nited Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH)Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211 TC Maastricht, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 43 3506368 Fax: +31 43 3506399 URL:
There are several reasons why I would like to participate in the UNU program. First, I am otherwise unobligated at this time and it would be nice to extend my agenda further into the future so as to earn greater mastery over my destiny. Second, UNU presents an excellent opportunity for me to achieve higher levels of academic recognition and incorporation into the UN. Third, by 2007, after completing the regional treaty and statistical atlas of the States of the United Nations (SUN) the higher study of economics is expected to be the primary topic meriting more progress to continue the development of one of the most exhaustive legal studies in the world today. Fourth, the website reports that the tuition fee for this program is € 5,000 per year however students selected by UNU-INTECH receive a complete tuition waiver and a monthly fellowship to cover living expenses for a period of twenty four months and my current financial situation requires that I get a full scholarship.
Being a philosophical question the issue of interest in the analysis of technical change requires a paragraph to itself to do it justice. The analysis of technical change seems to be an excellent perspective to studying developments in economics. The words “technical change” represents the cutting edge of the Security Exchange that corporations and nations must understand and comply with to sustain their financial status in their sector of the market economy and under the law, in general. Since the industrial revolution in the 19th century, and even more stereotypically in the 20th century, the global economy has undergone rapid and constant changes as the result of technological advances and legal reforms upholding human rights. In the 21st century issues of technical change promise to present a venue where academic research can be applied to real world problems and scholars can find appreciation from the international community for their work.
My experience logically justifies both this application and its acceptance by the UNU MERIT UNU/INTECH Ph.D. Programme in Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change in Maastricht. My father was born in the Netherlands and my mother was born in the USA. They met while working on a kibbutz in Israel in the early 1970’s. I was born on the Island of Tholen in the Netherlands on 11 August 1974. My family moved to the USA shortly thereafter where I have lived ever since with some notable exceptions. I was not naturalized until the age of 14 at the request of my father. When I graduated from high school, a year early in 1991, I went to the Netherlands on a 6 month family visit visa to study Dutch and the political situation regarding the signing of the Maastricht treaty. When I returned to the US in 1992 I enrolled in a four year International Affairs program at the University of Cincinnati. In 1994 I went on an exchange program to the Facultad de Anthropologia of the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan in Merida, Mexico for one semester and visited most of the major archaeological sites and met with indigenous tribes in most regions at the time of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). After my parents got divorced in 1995 I travelled the USA and Canada, worked and began litigating civil and human rights. I did not return to finish my studies at the University until 1998 and did not finish until 2000. After graduating I began publishing the Hospitals & Asylums (HA) quarterly for readers around the world and in 2004 published the website at .
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