Many people aided by the campus admissions scheme wanted to attend the University of Southern California.
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There is no system in place to detect charitable fraud on the scale allegedly committed by a counseling company and its sham nonprofit.
If passed as is, the South African Copyright Amendment Bill will lead to revenue and job losses in the publishing industry.
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If South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill is accepted as is, it will be detrimental to academic content production.
In one year alone 380,000 domestic applicants didn’t get a university place in Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s higher education system is the biggest on the continent but it lags behind on research output.
Chibok schoolgirls freed from Boko Haram captivity shown in Abuja, Nigeria in 2017.
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Four young women who escaped Boko Haram during the 2014 Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping are now studying in the US. Their professor recounts a recent breakthrough in their quest to go to college.
Stifling different or controversial views implies that academic freedom is preserved for those who are in agreement.
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Disinviting a person to speak on a university campus adds up to abandoning freedom and speech.
Recreating communicative situations in the classroom does not guarantee language acquisition.
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The environment at universities isn’t conducive to effectively teaching and learning new languages.
The European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
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For the UK government, the symbolism of leaving an institution associated with the EU seems to trump all other considerations.
South Africa has one of the lowest graduation rates at Master’s and doctoral levels.
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Higher education institutions which offer distance learning must support students – especially postgraduates.
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivering the 2019 State of the Nation Address.
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Education remains one of government’s key priority sectors yet it continues to be in a crisis.
Students shut the University of the Witwatersrand down during protest action.
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South Africa students are protesting and have brought university campuses to a stand still. This could have been avoided.
Only 1 in 5 American students take a foreign language before college.
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Despite increasing globalization, foreign language programs in US colleges have become less common. A foreign language expert says America needs to step up its efforts to turn things around.
The new ‘Spider-Man’ video game isn’t just fun and games – it’s also science.
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The latest version of the Spider-Man video game offers insights into how science could be taught more effectively to today’s college students, a researcher and video game enthusiast suggests.
New debit cards being issued by the U.S. Department of Education could be used to track student spending.
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A new debit card being issued to federal student loan borrowers on a trial basis may save them time and money, but it could also enable a bank to study their spending to sell them more products.
Lecturers in extended curriculum programmes make students the centre of their teaching practice.
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Without the support of extended curriculum programmes at universities, many students would face academic exclusion.
Africa’s higher education sector could benefit from public-private partnerships.
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In Africa’s education sector, public-private partnerships have been largely limited to infrastructure developments and the provision of education.
The auditorium at University of Göttingen today.
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Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world’s greatest centers for mathematical research.
South African students protest outside Parliament in support of students convicted over the #FeesMustFall protests.
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Certain criteria are needed to lead a university but additional knowledge is also useful.
As many as half of America’s college students face campus hunger.
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A new federal report on food insecurity on college campuses does a good job of laying out the scope of the problem but falls short when it comes to solutions.
Economics teaching needs to be more relevant and rooted in reality, not theory.
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Universities should begin the process of updating and modernising their undergraduate economics curricula.
South African universities aren’t doing justice even to top performing high school graduates.
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South African universities are failing to graduate the strongest students the schooling system has to offer.