Universities News
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Artificial intelligence has transformed many industries such as manufacturing, corporations and retail. Now traditional universities are being challenged, as they need to prepare for a "technology-enabled" future.
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By AFP
Paris -
France unveiled a billion-euro plan Monday to shake up its flagging universities that includes steps towards academic selection -- long a taboo issue in a country of "education for all".
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British universities have tumbled down the latest league tables, with only Cambridge in the top five. However, the metrics used for assessing the placements have recently been changed.
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The Nobel Prize remains the most prestigious prize available, and universities are keen to tally up the number held by each institution. The country with the greatest number of recent awards is the U.S. Who else is in the top ten?
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The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has revealed the most popular subjects studied at U.K. universities. With nursing at the top, how has the list changed over the past few years?
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As America continues to grapple with the alleged "rape culture" on college campuses, schools and the Greek system have been forced to alter their policies...but is the Greek system itself an incubator of rape culture?
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According to Business Green, the British Medical Association, citing the many health risks associated with climate change has made the decision to commit to divesting from fossil fuels, making them the first national medical group to do so.
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You hear the controversy in the news on an almost daily basis. The cost of a four-year university degree continues to rise at rates unimaginable by the middle class, often sending it out of range for many.
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GOP Governor Rick Scott has issued a challenge to colleges across Florida to offer 4-year degrees that cost no more than $10K.
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Calgary -
Canadian universities received a failing grade in the annual Campus Freedom Index by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF). The report claims that these post-secondary institutions have desecrated free speech.
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Madrid -
Most educational institutions, at all levels, closed today as teachers and students took to the streets to protest austerity cuts.
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UK universities have been told to cut costs rather than complain over insufficient funds. For universities who think the rise in tuition fees to £9,000 will not be enough, Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes say they should cut wages of highly paid staff
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Toronto -
Speaking at a press conference at City Hall Wednesday, Karen Sun, executive director of Chinese Canadian National Council said Toronto’s reputation will be "tarnished" if city council doesn’t demand an apology from Maclean’s magazine.
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A religious think tank in the United Kingdom is predicting the end of public universities, after the coalition government voted to allow a huge rise in tuition fees.
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The UK’s top universities have been accused of having an unpublished list of "banned" A-level subjects, putting students from comprehensives at a disadvantage when applying for places.
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Falling on hard times and competition from the likes of Facebook, another university yearbook bit the dust. The only thing left is to write the obituaries as one after another can’t compete and succumbs.
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Oh, those kids! Crosstown, uptown, downtown, neighboring city sports rivalry has been a tradition since the beginning of sports competitions, and this year USC students took it up a notch.
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With school just 2 weeks into session, WSU reports 2,000 infections of H1N1 swine flu. 55 percent of college campuses are hit with the aggressive bug.
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With the CIA and NSA facing hardships in recruiting qualified intelligence officers, the Obama administration is proposing that colleges offer spy training courses.
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Nine universities are clueless as to where $45 million in gifts came from, with the caveat that they can keep the money and run with it as long as they don’t attempt to figure out the identity of the mystery donor.
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The truth is pretty horrifying, considering that the loudest voices joining in the PC critique of all things American, are often the least informed. . .
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Now Hiring: Canada's spy agency is looking for about seventy percent more intelligence officers to fill positions of retiring officers.
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Ahmadinejad has begun clearing Iran's universities of "secular, progressive" professors. For what can we suppose he is preparing the way?
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Pushing the Canadian personal limits.
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TORONTO (djc) — York University has officially opened the newest and most technologically advanced teaching facility in Ontario, Canada, the $88-million 345,000-square foot Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Building.
The TEL Building, a joint proje..
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WASHINGTON (voa) - It's back to school time in the United States, and that means time for another edition of the Princeton Review's popular guide to America's best colleges. The 2003 edition includes profiles of 345 schools. But what attracts most atte...
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MONTEREY, Calif. - Harcourt e-Learning announced plans to offer extensive online library services to academic institutions.
The Harcourt e-Learning Online Library is offered for a per-user licensing
fee and features information covering all ...
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New York - Princeton University topped this years U.S. News & World Reports annual ranking of the nations universities, followed quickly by its Ivy League brethren Harvard and Yale, which were tied for No. 2. Princeton tied for No. 1 with Harvard in
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Jonathan Wai, a psychologist at Duke University and Stephen Hsu, a physicist at Michigan State University, examined the 81 institutions worldwide with at least three alumni who have received Nobel prizes in chemistry, physiology or medicine, physics. Jonathan Wai & Stephen Hsu
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