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Kabul -
At least six people were killed and 16 more wounded in a suicide blast outside a military academy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, an official said.
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Apo -
A Japanese university has stopped hiring professors and teachers who light up, officials said Tuesday, as the nation steps up an anti-smoking campaign ahead of the 2020 Olympics.
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New York -
"Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman and fellow Hollywood actress Lori Loughlin were among dozens indicted Tuesday in a multi-million dollar scam to help children of the American elite cheat their way into top universities.
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New York -
"Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman and fellow Hollywood actress Lori Loughlin were among 50 people indicted Tuesday in a multi-million dollar scam to help children of the American elite cheat their way into top universities.
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New York -
"Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman and fellow Hollywood actress Lori Loughlin were among 50 people indicted Tuesday in a multi-million dollar scam to help children of the American elite cheat their way into top universities.
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Waterloo -
Attending university can be a stressful experience for many and lowering anxiety helps with the student experience. A new Canadian study finds that variety is important to nudge large groups of students to engage in anxiety-relieving behaviour.
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Many universities still are not embracing data analytics, and are instead making huge decisions based not on data, but on their gut or historical trends. Yet data analytics can assist with an array of higher-ed services.
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Khartoum -
Sudan's army said Wednesday it will not allow the state to collapse amid nationwide protests, as the defence minister warned of a "plot" to trigger insecurity in the African nation.
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Apo -
An Egyptian university has overturned its decision to expel a male student over hugging his female friend on campus, in an incident that sparked controversy in the conservative country.
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Apo -
Egypt's Al-Azhar university on Monday overturned a decision to expel a female student who was filmed hugging a male colleague, after the country's top Muslim cleric intervened in her favour.
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Apo -
Egypt's Al-Azhar university on Sunday said it had expelled a female student after she appeared in a video hugging a male colleague, accusing her of undermining the school's reputation.
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London -
British university leaders warned on Friday that leaving the European Union without an official deal would be "one of the biggest threats our universities have ever faced.
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New York -
New York police were Thursday investigating swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs spray painted outside the office of a professor who researches the Holocaust at Columbia University.
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Bejing -
One of China's top universities has warned students they face arrest if they associate with a labour-rights organisation that has drawn support in a recent surge of Chinese campus activism.
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Bras -
Brazil's Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that military police should not intervene on public university campuses, after they launched campus operations against students who oppose far-right president elect Jair Bolsonaro.
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Apo -
A US student banned from entering Israel for allegedly having supported a pro-Palestinian boycott of the country appeared in court on Thursday to challenge the decision.
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Salzburg -
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday acknowledged an "error" in a book of his which reportedly reproduces parts of a diplomat's speech without referencing him, just a week after being accused of plagiarising his thesis.
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Madrid -
Spain's conservative Popular Party (PP), freshly ousted from power over a series of corruption cases, has been hit by another scandal as new leader Pablo Casado stands accused of getting a Masters degree as a "gift.
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Starting a company is hard work no matter who the founder is, but some factors make that work even harder. Like, being a student. That's where these student-run venture firms looking to help out their fellow classmates step in.
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Budapest -
Hungary's Central European University (CEU), founded by liberal US billionaire George Soros, said Tuesday it intends to stay in the country and called on the government to ensure its future.
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South Dakota pole vaulter and NCAA champion Chris Nilsen has the fourth best performance this year (5.86 meters) in the men's outdoor pole vault. Nilsen chatted with Digital Journal about his career in the sport.
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Istanbul -
Twenty-two students from a prestigious Istanbul university went on trial Wednesday over a campus protest against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's military campaign in Syria, bitterly rejecting the charges they had spread "terror" propaganda.
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Dakar -
The student demonstrations that have rocked Senegal in recent weeks recall the short-lived but intense unrest which sprung out of the country's universities half a century ago, almost bringing down the government back in May 1968.
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It’s hard to avoid discussion about artificial intelligence these days and each day brings a new article about the latest application. For those wishing to no more about the emerging technology, a new course has been launched.
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Futurists looking ahead for the types of skills that will be required by future generations have highlighted quantum computing skills as a core requirement for preparing for the next technological wave.
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Los Angeles -
Two hundred professors at one of California's top universities on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the school's president over a widening sexual abuse scandal involving a campus gynecologist.
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Buea -
Six months ago, southwest Cameroon plunged into violence as English-speaking separatists fought troops and police ordered in by the country's francophone-majority government.
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Lusaka -
Zambia's leading university on Monday asked female students to stop visiting the library "half-naked", suggesting that their skimpy outfits were distracting their male counterparts.
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Madrid -
Inflated CVs, degrees that may or may not be real... a scandal over how Madrid's leader obtained a law diploma has swept up other politicians in what has become Spain's "mastergate".
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Flushing -
Queens College is one of the best colleges in New York. It focus on academic rigor, and its instructors are distinguished faculty members. Digital Journal has the scoop.
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Turkish university students with Lonna Lisa Williams
University of Toronto, St. George campus as seen from the Robarts Library. Inmouchar
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Tent City lines Stadium Drive for nearly a half mile. University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. September 24, 2010.
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University students relaxing near their quad Tulane Public Relations
Admin, teachers and students at a Madrid University perform a protest zombie flash mob Video screen capture
MIT Building 10 and the Great Dome, Cambridge Massachusetts. John Phelan
Handout from a now-defunct university course in homoeopathy. David Colquhoun
Owners of first and second place spots in line at Tent City. University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. September 24, 2010.
Tent City at the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. September 24, 2010.
Notre Dame University, Bond Hall. Notre Dame University
Robert A. Millikan Memorial Library — at Caltech, Pasadena. Canon.vs.nikon
Strike by teachers and students in Spain, May 22, 2012 República Española
The Minister of State for Science and Technology, Canada, Gary Goodyear meeting the Indian Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, in New Delhi on November 09, 2010. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India
Building and sign promoting the University of Manchester, one of the U.K.'s leading institutions.
Faculty of biology and medicine at Complutense University in Madrid, Spain Carlos Delgado
Handout from a now-defunct university course in homoeopathy. David Colquhoun
LOCKDOWN: Photo shows Peterson Hall, the former administration building, on the Seattle Pacific University campus in Seattle. Joe Mabel/Wikimedia Commons
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