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Maiduguri -
A giant bulldozer digs a deep ditch among the bushes surrounding the University of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, turning it into a fortress to prevent further suicide attacks by Boko Haram.
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Mosul -
Amid buildings destroyed by heavy fighting, University of Mosul students are returning to take exams interrupted three years ago when jihadists took control of their city.
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Mosul -
Amid buildings destroyed by heavy fighting, University of Mosul students are returning to take exams interrupted three years ago when jihadists took control of their city.
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Mosul -
Amid buildings destroyed by heavy fighting, University of Mosul students are returning to take exams interrupted three years ago when jihadists took control of their city.
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Paris -
One in five children in rich countries lives in relative poverty, according to a UNICEF report published Thursday that put the US and New Zealand among the world's worst performers for youth well-being.
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Los Angeles -
Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter on Wednesday canceled a planned appearance at the University of California, Berkeley, saying she had lost the backing of the groups that had sponsored her talk.
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Los Angeles -
Two conservative groups filed a lawsuit against the University of California at Berkeley claiming that a decision to cancel an appearance by the firebrand pundit Ann Coulter violated their right to free speech.
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Los Angeles -
The University of California at Berkeley on Thursday reversed its decision to cancel a talk by right-wing commentator Ann Coulter, offering a new date and venue for the event.
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Los Angeles -
The University of California at Berkeley appears headed for a showdown with right-wing commentator Ann Coulter after her planned appearance at the school was canceled over security concerns.
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Madrid -
Two Spanish university professors and three other suspects have been charged over the alleged sale of a "fake" cancer drug that raked in more than 600,000 euros, police said Tuesday.
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London -
China's Peking University is buying a 19th-century manor house near Oxford in southern England to use as a campus in a multimillion-dollar deal, the estate agent handling the deal told AFP on Thursday.
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Lille -
A lawyer from Sudan, a footballer from Iran, an aeronautical engineer from Eritrea: They are among 80 migrants who have traded France's "Jungle" tent camp for a chance to earn a French degree and a new life.
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Istanbul -
The direct appointment of university rectors by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since July's failed coup has stirred up tensions on campus and prompted claims of political interference in the education sector.
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Kanpala -
A day after Uganda's president ordered the closure of one of Africa's oldest universities, 23-year old Gabriel Deng was hurriedly stuffing his belongings into rucksacks in a rundown student hostel.
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Which is the best university in the world? This can be judged on many levels, from academic quality to the student experience. How about the proportion of Nobel Prize winners?
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Google has announced a new style of card it's adding to its search results. Searching for a school or university will now show relevant data within the search page, letting you check details like graduation and acceptance rates without leaving Google.
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Istanbul -
Turkey on Friday detained dozens of academics suspected of backing Fethullah Gulen, the alleged mastermind of last month's failed coup, while pressing ahead with raids on businesses linked to the US-based Muslim preacher.
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Shanghai -
Universities from mainland China broke into the global top 100 in an annual ranking for the first time on Monday, but Harvard remained number one for the 14th consecutive year.
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Shanghai -
Universities from mainland China broke into the global top 100 in an annual ranking for the first time on Monday, but Harvard remained number one for the 14th consecutive year.
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Shanghai -
Universities from mainland China broke into the global top 100 in an annual ranking for the first time on Monday, but Harvard remained number one for the 14th consecutive year.
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Tripoli -
Libya's pro-government forces said they seized a university campus Wednesday as they press an offensive against the Islamic State group in its stronghold of Sirte, killing at least 20 jihadists.
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Tripoli -
Libya's pro-government forces said they seized a university campus Wednesday as they press an offensive against the Islamic State group in its stronghold of Sirte, killing at least 20 jihadists.
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Tripoli -
Libya's pro-government forces said they seized a university campus Wednesday as they press an offensive against the Islamic State group in its stronghold of Sirte, killing at least 20 jihadists.
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Tianjin -
Chinese university tutor Xie Shu's core subject is Communist ideology, but he has diversified from the dry annals of political doctrine for a more hands-on subject: seduction.
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Mugadishu -
A senior Shabaab commander suspected of organising the 2015 attack on Kenya's Garissa University has been killed in a special forces raid in southern Somalia, a local official said Wednesday, as the Al-Qaeda-linked group launched a deadly assault on a ...
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Garissa -
Kenyans on Saturday commemorated the first anniversary of a terrorist attack that killed 148 people, mostly students, at a university in Garissa in the country's worst massacre since 1998.
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Berkeley -
California prosecutors will not bring criminal charges over last year's fatal balcony collapse that killed six young people.
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Chicago -
The University of Texas at Austin begrudgingly agreed Wednesday to allow students to carry guns into classrooms, months after state lawmakers passed a bill outlawing gun bans at public universities.
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London -
A statue at Oxford University of 19th century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes will not be taken down despite protests, the college at the centre of the dispute said Friday, to the fury of campaigners.
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Stockholm -
The University of Orebro in central Sweden said it would close on Monday after an anonymous threat raised fears of a planned massacre.
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Robert A. Millikan Memorial Library — at Caltech, Pasadena. Canon.vs.nikon
On campus at UNC Via Flickr user photo_vytx
Owners of first and second place spots in line at Tent City. University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. September 24, 2010.
Faculty of biology and medicine at Complutense University in Madrid, Spain Carlos Delgado
A mysterious tunnel has been dug in the grounds of Toronto University's York campus Toronto Police
A view of Oikos University in Oakland, using Google Street View Street View photo
Building and sign promoting the University of Manchester, one of the U.K.'s leading institutions.
Handout from a now-defunct university course in homoeopathy. David Colquhoun
University of Toronto, St. George campus as seen from the Robarts Library. Inmouchar
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus during the fall uwgb admission
Turkish university students with Lonna Lisa Williams
Goodyear blimp flying over University of Arkansas campus. Fayetteville, Ark. September 24, 2010.
CyFair region of Lone Star College Via Lone Star College
Old Main on the campus of the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark.
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
Admin, teachers and students at a Madrid University perform a protest zombie flash mob Video screen capture
Tent City at the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. September 24, 2010.
MIT Building 10 and the Great Dome, Cambridge Massachusetts. John Phelan
Graduation caps worn by students Jmaz Photo
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