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Monday, Mar. 18, 2024

An economic crisis in Nigeria that has led to a big drop in applications has been blamed by some institutions for tipping them into the red

For more information, please click on this link: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/universities-to-cut-courses-and-staff...

Monday, Mar. 11, 2024

Last year, I drove south from Mexico City, along the highway toward Apango, a modest hillside town in the state of Guerrero. The highway ends at Acapulco, but there were no palm trees and no glamour where I was going. I turned onto a silent two-lane road, and drove past villages where indigenous languages such as Nahuatl are still spoken. It was the dry season, and the scrub-forest hills had turned every shade of dust and brown, punctuated only by the soft white flowers of the casahuate trees. In Apango, I asked for Estanislao Mendoza Chocolate, or Don Tanis, as he is respectfully known.... more

Tuesday, Feb. 06, 2024

WASHINGTON (TND) — Dartmouth has become the first Ivy League school to reinstate standardized testing, per the Wall Street Journal.

The COVID-19 pandemic meant schools were closed and things like SAT exam dates were canceled. Hundreds of colleges and universities waived standardized testing requirements and many have kept that policy in place.

According to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, more than 2,000 colleges and universities are optional for fall 2024 applicants.

Monday, Feb. 05, 2024

If you’ve taken a college tour lately, either as an applicant or as the parent of an applicant, you may have noticed that at some point—usually as you’re on the death march from the aquatic center to the natural-sciences complex—the tour guide will spin smartly on her heel, do the college-tour-guide thing of performatively walking backwards, and let you in on something very important. “What’s different about College X,” she’ll say confidently, “is that our professors don’t teach you what to think. They teach you how to think.”

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024

Just about everyone in America seems to be angry at higher education. Congress is angry. State governments are angry. Donors are angry. Parents are angry because schools are so expensive, and students are angry because they aren’t getting what they paid for. Just 36 percent of Americans now tell pollsters that they have significant confidence in higher education, down from 57 percent less than a decade ago.

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024

Marc Miller, minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, outlined Monday how the federal government plans to cap the number of international students in Canada.

For more information, visit this link https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2302345283542

Monday, Dec. 11, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people who are traveling to the Baja California region of Mexico to watch out for ticks that could spread Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

The travel advisory, issued Friday, comes after a person from San Diego died from the disease. The person had traveled to Baja California before becoming sick, according to San Diego County public health officials. No other information is known about the patient. The last time someone died in San Diego from the tick-borne disease was in 2014, officials said.

Wednesday, Dec. 06, 2023

The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP28) at Expo City in Dubai is attracting students, scientists and academics, especially from Africa, to a Greening Education Hub as a platform for educating first-time COP attendees – a laudable initiative, according to attendees as it will help empower the youth, in particular, during their two-week stay.

For more information, click here: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20231204090603337 

Wednesday, Dec. 06, 2023

The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP28) at Expo City in Dubai is attracting students, scientists and academics, especially from Africa, to a Greening Education Hub as a platform for educating first-time COP attendees – a laudable initiative, according to attendees as it will help empower the youth, in particular, during their two-week stay.

For more information, click here: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20231204090603337 

Friday, Nov. 03, 2023

Cheating on college campuses has always been an arms race. But ChatGPT has upended the balance, and now no one knows for sure what or who is on the level. Is a BA worth anything if it’s all BS?

Scott Limmer has been a defense attorney in Nassau County for nearly a quarter of a century. Solidly built, with salt-and-pepper hair and a booming Long Island accent, Limmer is the kind of guy who can make anyone feel comfortable, including the criminal defendants who are the bread and butter of his practice. Or at least they used to be.

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