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Thousands of students at a leading American university were left distraught after an email was sent out mistakenly telling them that they were going to be kicked out of college because of their poor grades ...
Read more …Generation X is having a hard time in the workplace.
As workers around the globe have had to deal with high levels of economic turmoil it is the generation aged 31 to 48 (Gen X ...
Read more …Microsoft has seen off stiff competition from IBM and Google to land a huge new cloud computing contract in India.
Around 7.5 million students are expected to benefit after the All India Council for ...
Read more …Unemployment in the EU has hit new peaks with more people than ever looking for work.
The average jobless rate across the Eurozone - the 17 countries that are tied into the Euro - hit 10.8 ...
Read more …Empress of pop, Madonna is embroiled in a row over her plan to build 10 new schools in Malawi.
The singer has chosen the southern Africa state as the base to open the schools which ...
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In a surprising and potentially controversial move that is being seen as a sign of changing attitudes in UK further education, a London university is considering ending the sale of alcohol on campus because of concerns from Muslim students.
The London Metropolitan University is poised to take the action because a ‘high percentage’ of its Islamic students regard drinking as ...
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Aspiring students with good sports skills are posting videos online to try and win scholarships from top universities.
Luke Edgecombe, an 18 year old footballer from Surrey, approached an agency which compiled a series of video clips highlighting his skills which they posted on forums used by US universities.
After watching the video 25 universities approached the UK youngster with ...
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Cambridge University’s place at the top of the academic world has been confirmed once more with the release of the latest Guardian guide to the UK’s top Universities.
British Universities make up some of the world’s top further education establishments, with six of the global top 13 universities. So the publication of the list is awaited with much anticipation by education experts.
Cambridge emerged on top beating Oxford for the second year running, with the London School of Economics in third place.
Prince William and Kate Middleton’s old university, St Andrews is ranked fourth with Warwick leapfrogging UCL to gain fifth. Durham, Lancaster, Bath and Exeter Universities make up the remainder of the top 10 establishments.
As well as producing an overall list, the Guardian list ranks universities performance in different subjects. Cambridge again comes out on top in almost one third of the subjects - 16 ...
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Technology giants have set their sights on the lucrative market in university textbooks.
In the US alone this market is worth a whopping $4.5 billion and with the rest of the world thrown in this figure easily doubles.
Up to now the market for university academic texts has proved largely immune to the lure of digital technology because the reproduction quality has not been able to match that of traditional print books.
But the latest technology means all that is about to change and many analysts say a move by Microsoft is the first stage of a new battle for supremacy in the e-reader market centered around a fight for the lucrative university market.
Microsoft announced its move with a $300 million dollar investment in Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader and university business.
At first it appeared that the development was part of the Seattle based company’s ongoing ...
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