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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Student protesters who were forcibly removed from a Tseung Kwan O college by police on Thursday condemned officers for abusing their power. They also complained about how male officers handled females. One said she felt “uncomfortable and offended” when a policeman grabbed her from behind, touching her breasts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Nick Romeo, on May 13th, 2013 Universities have become prestige-seeking machines. Nick Romeo on how higher education has changed, and what needs to be done to save it.
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By By TAMAR LEWIN, on May 12th, 2013 According to the annual pay report by The Chronicle of Higher Education, four public university presidents had compensation topping $1 million.
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jacques Chirac once stormed out of an EU summit because a French business leader was speaking it, Nicolas Sarkozy lamented his lack of it and Francois Hollande makes small talk in it but is conscious of his accent. The global spread of the English language has long been a sore point in Paris politics. Now a new battleground has appeared in the linguistic war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s eight government-funded universities have raised tuition fees by as much as 20 per cent for non-local students this year, attributing it to inflation and a stronger yuan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By TAMAR LEWIN, on April 30th, 2013 Educators are harnessing online materials to meet the toughest challenges in higher education: giving more students access to college, and helping them graduate on time.
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By , on April 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Chinese academic has created a new application integrated with location-based technology that supposedly helps university instructors catch truanting students who break evening curfew, the Chengdu Business Daily reports. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Six of Hong Hong’s eight publicly-funded universities made it to the top 100 in a new Asian university ranking list released on Thursday. The University of Hong Kong was ranked third – the highest place claimed by the city — in the inaugural Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s universities must create a truly international student and faculty mix if they are to stand out among competitors in the region, a British education expert has said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 8th, 2013 
New Birkbeck president Baroness Bakewell urges the government to back efforts to stem the dramatic drop in part-time students.
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By , on April 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A politically outspoken executive councillor has been named to the body that advises on university funding, raising strong opposition from tertiary educators who see the appointment as a threat to their autonomy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> For years mainland students have flocked to top universities overseas for their education, but today greater numbers are turning to the newest education frontier: the internet. Students are embracing the idea of online learning through access to massive online open courses, or “Mooc platforms”, such as edX and Coursera, and one mainland recruitment company is preparing to sink millions of dollars into establishing its own platform. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s new leaders are planning a system of national residence permits to replace the household registration or ‘hukou’ regime, a government source said, a vital reform that will boost its urbanisation campaign and drive consumption-led growth. The hukou system, which dates to 1958, has split China’s 1.3 billion people along urban-rural lines, preventing many of the roughly 800 million Chinese who are registered as rural residents from settling in cities and enjoying basic urban welfare and services. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The 2013 rankings, published on Monday, ranked the University of Hong Kong 36th in the world. Despite slowly climbing up the rankings from 42nd and 39th place in 2011 and 2012, respectively, the school still trails behind the National University of Singapore at 22nd and University of Tokyo at 9th place. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US universities have responded to China’s exploding demand for American higher education with branch campuses and aggressive recruiting. Now, some are trying to boost their brands by casting photos and other snippets of campus life out into the confounding sea of Chinese social media. How confounding? Consider the mystery of the Chinese Yale zombies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US universities have responded to China’s exploding demand for American higher education with branch campuses and aggressive recruiting. Now, some are trying to boost their brands by casting photos and other snippets of campus life out into the confounding sea of Chinese social media. How confounding? Consider the mystery of the Chinese Yale zombies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By TAMAR LEWIN, on February 25th, 2013 There are almost as many routes to a degree as there are students at Thomas Edison, which has offered adults higher-education alternatives since 1972.
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By , on February 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More top universities outside the United States are joining the rush to offer “massive open online courses” that are broadening access to higher education. Coursera and edX, two leading providers of so-called MOOCs, on Thursday announced major expansions that will roughly double the number of university partners offering free online classes through their websites. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in India on Monday with what he called Britain’s biggest ever overseas business delegation for a three-day visit clouded by a corruption scandal. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Ilana Glazer, on February 4th, 2013 In the past number of decades, success in school has become based upon who can focus and sit still during class. While this has benefited girls greatly, this style of learning is harming boys’ chances of success in school, higher education, and job placement. Christina Hoff Sommers explains this trend:
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<!– google_ad_section_start –> Student protesters who were forcibly removed from a Tseung Kwan O college by police on Thursday condemned officers for abusing their power. They also complained about how male officers handled females. One said she felt “uncomfortable and offended” when a policeman grabbed her from behind, touching her breasts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Police accused of abusing their power
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