The Global Microscience Experiments Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students as well as university students the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that are veritable mini-laboratories.
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One overlooked alternative is a study-abroad vacation, which is as suitable for long-term university students as for families trying to fill a couple weeks in August.
The survey is published a week before A-level pupils are due to receive their results, with heavy competition expected for remaining university places as prospective students seek to avoid the fees increase.
It follows the controversial decision by the UK government to give university vice chancellors the powers to charge students that figure, as long as they attracted more students from poorer backgrounds.
As students at the university created profiles, he noticed that they wanted to see what other students at the school are working on.
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The origin of the practice is unclear - padlocks have appeared in China for years at sacred sites, and there was a flurry of padlocking in the Hungarian town of Pecs in the 1980s, when university students locked them on a bridge next to the university either as a symbol of undying love or their determination to finish their courses.
Our scientists may be partnering directly with students at top universities, such as the University of Michigan, or providing educational materials and insights to much younger students through social channels.
Eight student political societies - including all the major parties - had invited undergraduate and postgraduate students to vote in what was billed as the first large-scale poll of Scottish university students on the country's future.
Facebook began as a way for students at a single university to keep in touch.
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It is his duty as rector to serve students' interests including at the University Court, the governing body of the institution.
The Global Microscience Experiment Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students ( in some countries university students as well) the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that come with booklets describing possible scientific experiments.
Germany has the added attraction of dispensing university education free to foreigners as well as to domestic students.
Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said this showed tuition fees were not putting students off applying to university, as critics of higher fees had predicted.
Thiel even created scholarships known as Thiel-Fellowship for students under 20 who leave university to start their own companies.
As if to prove the point, when we go to Winchester University students' union midweek "bop", one girl politely introduces me to her parents who have come along with her.
As well as providing a feed of students to the Scholar Ship, each university will be responsible for monitoring course standards to ensure they remain consistent with the subjects being offered at each land-based campus.
Mr Wales said the website still lacked the authority to be used as a citeable source for college-aged and university students.
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Sixty percent of Haitian households are headed by women and many face special challenges as breadwinners, according to a recent U.N. conference for university students in Haiti about responsible government.
Good universities outside the cities, such as Eastern Cape's Fort Hare university, find it hard to attract capable students or lecturers.
As for the other half, he wants the university to retain discretion over which students to admit, including the discretion to consider race.
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation was among the first to answer this call to action, with its commitment to a five-year, five-region expansion of Blackstone LaunchPad, a successful program that transforms university career centers to encourage entrepreneurship as a career path for undergrads, graduate students, and alumni.
Dr Morgan hopes to put some of these new approaches into practice by embarking on a three-year study of 1, 000 university students to deal with some critical unresolved questions, such as whether light users of the drug, who take it seemingly without side-effects, are actually storing up problems for the future.
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As Hofstra University in Long Island clears up after the big debate, I spoke to two students who were in the hall.
Enrolment fell as it moved to raise admission levels, while the big University of Toronto was siphoning off students from the region with aggressive recruitment.
As a Kiwanis advisor to the Grambling State University Circle K Club, I guide the college students in tutoring and mentoring children in third through eighth grade.
Hundreds of college students from historically black schools such as Howard University in Washington traveled to Jena, along with civil rights activists such as Al Sharpton and the Rev.
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Udacity also is working with the California state university system on challenges such as the large numbers of students who need to retake classes they have flunked, in order to meet graduation requirements.
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Nations, a volunteer for the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office, has spent a week at Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton campus trying to get students to register as part of a county vote drive.
If educators continue to do that then we will find that drop-outs will begin to increase at this level as students recognize the impossibility of their life chances at university and the increasing irrelevance of what they are doing at upper secondary schools.
With the federal government and states looking for ways to trim their budgets, appropriations to colleges and universities are likely to be scaled back as students and institutions sort through what they want from a university education and how much is it worth.
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