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City Seeks Partner to Open Graduate School of Engineering
Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are inviting universities around the world to create an engineering campus on city-owned land. Enlarge This Image Chris Hondros/Getty Images Robert K.
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Colleges That Recruit Veterans Garner Profits and Scrutiny
WASHINGTON — When Congress moved in 2008 to sweeten tuition payments for veterans, it was celebrated as a way to ensure that military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan could go to college at no cost and to replicate the historic benefits society gained from the G.I. Bill after World War II. Multimedia Document Recruiting Veterans and Their Tuition Dollars Related U.S
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Big City: Chancellor From Different World Visits Classrooms
Cathleen P. Black , the schools chancellor designee, is not a gusher. She is not an over-talker
Briefly: Education: India Agrees to U.S.-Style Credit-Hours
India ’s federally financed universities have agreed to adopt an American-style system of academic credits to give students more flexibility. The move marks a significant departure from a system that began during British colonial rule whereby students must earn their degree from a single institution over a fixed number of years. Related Mixed Reviews for Indonesiaâ??s Private Universities (November 22, 2010) French Professors Find Life in U.S.
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More Professors Give Out Hand-Held Devices to Monitor Students and Engage Them
EVANSTON, Ill. — If any of the 70 undergraduates in Prof.
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Questionable Science Behind Academic Rankings
LONDON — For institutions that regularly make the Top 10, the autumn announcement of university rankings is an occasion for quiet self-congratulation. Related French University Rankings Draw Praise and Criticism (November 15, 2010) When Cambridge beat Harvard for the No. 1 spot in the QS World University Rankings this September, Cambridge put out a press release.
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In Higher Education, a Focus on Technology
The education gap facing the nation’s work force is evident in the numbers. Most new jobs will require more than a high school education, yet fewer than half of Americans under 30 have a postsecondary degree of any kind
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Duke Winces as a Private Joke Slips Out of Control
DURHAM, N.C. — For nearly two weeks, many here on the Duke University campus had been aware of a certain senior “thesis” that a recent graduate wrote, apparently as a private joke, about her sexual exploits with 13 student-athletes. Enlarge This Image Jeremy M
Malaysia Tries to Lure World-Class Institutes