M.B.A.’s Guide Socially Concerned Entrepreneurs
Posted on March 19, 2010
A survey this year of M.B.A. applicants by QS TopMBA.com, a career guidance Web site, found that 28.4 percent of respondents cited “starting own business” as a prime aspiration, up from 24 percent in 2006, while “improving career prospects” had dropped to 66.2 percent from 73 percent.
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Auriol Stevens: 'Should we think about creating a new university in Winchester?'
Posted on March 19, 2010
Should top independent schools set up a new private university on the lines of American liberal arts colleges, providing high-quality teaching, a broad curriculum and charging full fees?
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Bucks New University goes into business with industry
Posted on March 19, 2010
When Richard Galt returned from Japan a year ago, he resolved to break into advertising. So, he applied to JWT for a traineeship. They said the 25-year-old would make a good "creative" or "planner" but that first he needed to do a Master's course at Buckinghamshire New University.
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Study better in cyberspace
Posted on March 19, 2010
The future is incontestably digital: the internet is changing the way we do all sorts of things, from shopping to working to running our social lives. Education, though, has so far largely remained anchored in the old world – but even this is beginning to change.
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UK students head overseas in search of cheaper fees and academic excellence
Posted on March 19, 2010
Laura Tunbridge left school in Kent with four As and one B at A-level, but was rejected from Oxford University and all but one of her other choices. Rather than settle for second best, she took a gap year and set her sights on the American Ivy League.
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New website gives wannabe students vital information about drop-out rates and earnings
Posted on March 19, 2010
A new website, bestCourse4me.com, spearheaded by the Shadow higher education spokesman David Willetts and bankrolled by Microsoft and the philanthropist and software engineer Steve Edwards, allows for the first time, data on employment, careers and salaries to be seen together in one place to help students to make the right choice of institution and subject for them.
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    French students invade UK universities to get better deal
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    UNIVERSITIES are facing a Gallic invasion as French students abandon their own institutions for degrees in Britain. More than 13,000 full-time students from France — enough to fill an entire university — have enrolled on British courses. They now make up the largest group of overseas students after the Chinese, with 3,194 freshers accepted on undergraduate courses last September.
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    University students expect to graduate with debts in excess of £15,000
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Latest university lifestyle survey paints a picture of anxiety-stricken undergraduates with mounting debts. Half of all university students in the UK expect to graduate with more than £15,000 of debt, according to research published today.
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    Cornell: School of Suicides?
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Cornell University posts guards at bridge after series of suicides
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    Edinburgh University 'discriminating against students from southern England'
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Edinburgh University – ranked among the top 20 in the world – was criticised after it emerged that admissions tutors favoured students from Scotland and northern England. Entry policies published by the university state that weighting is given to “local” applicants to make sure they do not miss out on the most popular courses.
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