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Student with Down syndrome first to graduate college in four years in Oregon
A student just made history after becoming the first student with Down syndrome to complete four years of college in Oregon. KATU got the chance to meet Cody Sullivan this week, fresh off his graduation ceremony. Sullivan graduated from Concordia University.
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University of Manchester has disabled ratings on their Facebook page after a flood of negative reviews
Campaigners have been banned from commenting on UoM’s posts. The University of Manchester have removed the reviews and ratings system from their Facebook page, following a flood of negative reviews from unsatisfied students. Some students have since been banned from commenting on the university's Facebook posts. Reviews and ratings were disabled on 23rd April, immediately following a string of negative reviews that caused the university's rating to drop from 4.7 to 4.3, leaving UoM with the second lowest rating of any Russell Group university.
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Belgian boy off to university aged 8
A Belgian boy has graduated secondary school aged eight after completing six years' study in just a year and a half. Laurent Simons, whose father is Belgian and mother Dutch, and has an IQ of 145 according to his parents, collected a diploma with a class of 18-year-olds. Speaking to Belgium's RTBF radio, Laurent said his favourite subject was maths "because it's so vast, there's statistics, geometry, algebra".
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'Google-it' mentality leaves school leavers unprepared for university, survey finds
A "Google-it" mentality is leaving sixth-formers unprepared for higher education, a survey of university admissions officers has found.
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5 ways to improve your critical thinking
Critical thinking is essential for us to successfully adapt to both new information and situations so what is it and how can we do it better?
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A University Is Putting 2,300 Echo Dots in Student Living Spaces and What Could Go Wrong?
When students of Saint Louis University begin their fall semester this month, they’ll notice a new addition to the campus—hundreds of glowing blue hockey-puck robots. By Jennings Brown.
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If 'Free College' Sounds Too Good To Be True, That's Because It Often Is
More than a dozen states offer what are known as free college programs. But a new review finds states vary wildly in how they define both "free" and "college."
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Does Harvard discriminate against Asians? In a case that could upend college admissions, the Ivy League goes on trial
Both Harrison Chen and Thang Diep graduated No. 1 from public high schools. Both excelled in extracurricular activities and scored high on their college admissions tests. And both are Asian American. But the similarities stop there.
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In Admissions, Harvard Favors Those Who Fund It, Internal Emails Show
In one 2013 email headlined “My Hero,” former Kennedy School Dean Ellwood thanked Harvard's dean of admissions for his help accepting a set of students with very particular qualifications. "[Redacted] and [redacted] are all big wins. [Redacted] has already committed to a building.”
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Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry
A new government report highlights just how pervasive the problem is.
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Billionaire's £100m gift to Cambridge Uni
A hedge fund billionaire has donated £100m to Cambridge University. The donation from David Harding, via his foundation, is the biggest single gift made to a university in the UK by a British philanthropist. The money will fund postgraduate scholarships for more than 100 PhD students and be invested in attracting students from "under-represented groups". Vice-chancellor Prof Stephen J Toope said it was "extraordinarily generous".
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What’s Life Like as a Student at U.S.C.? Depends on the Size of the Bank Account
Spring breaks in Bali, resort-style apartment buildings with rooftop pools and tanning beds and regular dinners out at Nobu, where a tab for four roommates could easily stretch into four digits. This is life as a student at the University of Southern California. This is also life as a U.S.C. student: working an overnight shift to earn money for books, going hungry when the campus meal plan runs out and seething as friends presume that a $20 glass of wine is affordable.
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Ultimate Student Accommodation Guide In Glasgow
Good accommodation summary for students in Glasgow. If you have any additional info, especially for college students, let us know!
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The two hidden intellectual moves behind the "progressive" argument against free college
the ideas that public goods need to be subjected to cost-benefit analysis, and the idea that education's primary benefit is higher earning potential.
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Why Is There So Much Saudi Money in American Universities?
Saudi Arabia has quietly directed tens of millions of dollars a year to American universities from M.I.T. to Northern Kentucky. What are the nation’s rulers getting out of it?
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Chinese pupils 'work through night' to make Amazon Echos
Chinese students are being paid low wages and pressured into illegal work hours, activists say.
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Federal Loan Servicing Pros and Cons - The Frugal Fellow
FedLoan is a student loan servicer which specifically handles federal loan servicing in the US. Many people have had major issues with FedLoan.
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College student nails half-court shot for free tuition
Cale Mantis, a freshman at the University of Oklahoma, was plucked from the crowd at a college basketball game to take the shot of a lifetime. He reportedly had to make a free throw, a lay-up and a three-pointer before sinking the final “money” shot, which won him a year of free tuition.
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2020 Democrats Threaten to Boycott Debate Over Labor Dispute
Workers at Loyola Marymount University are in a contract dispute, and all seven candidates who qualified for the debate said Friday that they would not cross a picket line to attend.
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This is the Milky Way's Magnetic Field
A team of astronomers have mapped the Milky Way's magnetic field using 137 pulsars in the northern sky. And they're not done yet.
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