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Marie Curie Got Her Start At a Secret University For Women
The controversial Flying University. By Eric Grundhauser.
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British students will have to pay to go to German universities after Brexit
Students from outside the European Union will soon have to pay to attend universities in south-west Germany, where until now, courses have been free. Tuition fees were scrapped in Baden-Württemberg state in 2011, and universities became free from cost in all German states by 2014. But despite promising not to introduce general fees earlier this year, the Baden-Württemberg state government has announced the reintroduction of tuition fees to international students from autumn 2017.
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PC students demand white philosophers be dropped off university course
They are titans of philosophy, without whose work an understanding of the subject is all but inconceivable. But now students at a University of London college are demanding that such seminal figures as Plato, Descartes, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell should be largely dropped from the curriculum simply because they are white.
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Survey shows half of college students think student loans will be forgiven
A new survey highlights overwhelming misconceptions current U.S. college students have about their student loans, including the fact that they will actually have to pay them back. Americans owe nearly $1.3 trillion dollars in student loan debt, spread out among a 44.2 million borrowers. According to Student Loan Hero, the average Class of 2016 gradate has $37,172 dollars in student loan debt. That number is up six-percent from last year. The student loan delinquency rate is 11-percent.
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Fancy Dorms Aren’t The Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing
In 2000, Temple University was primarily a commuter school. On-campus dorms could house fewer than 4,000 students out of a total student body of more than 30,000. Most facilities were badly outdated, and the average student paid $12,800 a year (in 2016 dollars) in tuition to attend. Today, Temple, where I work, looks very different. Beautiful new buildings are the norm rather than the exception. A recently built 24-story dorm and adjoining dining center highlights the university’s transition to a residential campus.
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Rise in poorer students dropping out of university
The number of disadvantaged students not finishing their studies rises for the second year in a row.
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Technology And Its Impact
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Ten Things College Students Waste Money On
College students waste a lot of money. In our blog at OkDissertations.com we gathered 10 main ways they do it and how to decrease the spendings.
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Orlando Valley University
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Florida university chancellor forced out for pretending to be on campus during Hurricane Irma evacuation
While students at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg awaited a lashing from Hurricane Irma, the school's leader fled the state for Atlanta and insinuated in an email to her boss that she remained on campus — going so far as to say things were quiet and that she heard birds chirping. After the storm, USF officials moved to fire USFSP regional chancellor Sophia Wisniewska for incompetence and "lack of leadership," criticizing her departure and alleging that she had hesitated to evacuate students as Irma grew more dangerous.
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Ultra-Light Aluminum: USU Chemist Reports Material Design Breakthrough
If you drop an aluminum spoon in a sink full of water, the spoon will sink to the bottom. That’s because aluminum, in its conventional form, is denser than water says Utah State University chemist Alexander Boldyrev. But if you restructure the common household metal at the molecular level, as Boldyrev and colleagues did using computational modeling, you could produce an ultra-light crystalline form of aluminum that’s lighter than water.
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Cambridge University vice-chancellor earning £365,000 stands AGAINST requested pay cuts
Professor Stephen Toope has shot down calls from the Office for Students (OfS) that proposed the move in an effort to restore public confidence. Mr Toope said: “People don’t understand how a vice-chancellor’s job has evolved. “I am essentially responsible for £1billion a year turnover, 11,000 employees, 19,000 students, and am in the lead to complete a £2billion fundraising campaign.
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Grambling State University freshman arrested for murder of 2 shot dead on campus
Freshman Jaylin Wayne, of St. Louis, was arrested for first-degree murder.
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Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships
Stanford Business School officials are admitting that for years they have given steep price breaks to preferred applicants while claiming the scholarships were only for needy students - and say they will close a glitch that allowed public access to thousands of confidential student financial aid records.
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Millennials are lost and unhappy. Schools like Yale think they can help
It takes a lot of hard work to get into places like Yale and Stanford. But once students make it to the Ivy League, many find that while they’re ready to tackle Shakespeare and comparative political systems, they’re lost when it comes to building emotionally rich, and balanced lives. To that end, a growing number of top universities are offering courses that aim to put students on the happiness track.
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The business school where students graduate with a ready-made network
Networking and business go hand-in-hand, but how do you go about building a network to begin with?
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Why Men Are the New Minority on College Campuses
Jessica Smith raised an arm and pointed across the lobby of the university student center like an ornithologist who had just spied a rare breed in the underbrush. “There’s one,” she said. It was, in fact, an unusual bird that Smith had spotted, especially on this campus: masculum collegium discipulus. A male college student.
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He applied to 20 of the best colleges and got a full ride to all of them
Micheal Brown stared at the acceptance letter in front of him: It said yes. So did the next one. And the one after that. The 17-year-old from Houston applied to 20 of the best universities in the US. He was admitted to every single one with a full ride and $260,000 in additional scholarship offers. "It's something I'm proud of because I see my hard work paying off, determination paying off, sacrifices paying off," the student told CNN.
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The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat
A first-of-its-kind survey finds one-third of college students regularly skip meals and lack stable housing.
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#Metoo in China: fledgling movement in universities fights censorship
Peking University, China’s top academic institution, admitted this month that 20 years ago a professor had been involved in “inappropriate student-teacher relations” with a female student. Former classmates of that student, Gao Yan, a star pupil studying Chinese literature, say she was raped and that the assault pushed her to commit suicide less than a year later.
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