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UK universities must push back against Theresa May’s crackdown on international student numbers, the president of Europe’s top international university has said. Professor Michael Ignatieff, president and rector of George Soros’s Central European University (CEU) and the former Canadian Liberal Party leader, warned the British Prime Minister must...
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May 6, 2017 Loknath Das
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Four weeks after examinations started, University of Mumbai officials said they aim to start assessing the 22 lakh answer booklets by tomorrow. About 50 scanners have been bought and are ready to use at the examination house at MU’s Kalina campus. As many as 250 employees have been...
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May 5, 2017 Loknath Das
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A tipping point is being reached in post-secondary education, particularly for traditional colleges and universities. This tipping point is taking place over an extended period of time and has been precipitated by the perceived need of gaining qualifications to gain employment, backed up by historic data of graduate...
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April 18, 2017 Loknath Das
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HAMILTON, Ohio – Quadruplet brothers in Ohio have all been accepted at some of the nation’s top universities, including each of them to both Yale and Harvard. The Wade brothers of the northern Cincinnati suburb of Liberty Township say they have been notified in recent days of acceptances...
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April 6, 2017 Loknath Das
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Universities should pay the living wage as part of a “civic mission”, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has said. Cardiff University is the only one of Wales’ eight universities with the status of a living wage employer. Accredited firms and organisations pay a higher minimum wage than the...
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April 3, 2017 Loknath Das
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a staunch supporter of privatizing education, recently pointed to historically black colleges and universities as an example of “school choice” being successful. But UO law professor Carrie Leonetti says in an op-ed piece that black educational institutions actually came from policies explicitly preventing students...
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March 30, 2017 Loknath Das
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