Also, the more equipped they are whenever it comes to having the tools that are needed to help their students succeed.

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The squeeze is even tighter than it looks, for students rejected last year are having another go.

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This means companies recruiting at job fairs in India are having to make lucrative offers to capture the most promising students.

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Some of his students are undocumented, he said, having been brought to the United States illegally when they were just babies.

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The UVA situation illustrated the challenges that major elite universities are having in dealing with a new world in which students can earn even advanced degrees in their pajamas.

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What is clear, he says, is that when many students arrive at college, they are "all of a sudden thrust into the position of having to manage student loans and lifestyle expenditures, " and they may be unprepared for it.

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Having been isolated from the world of employment due to a lack of qualifications, the students are also offered the chance to try out new activities, allowing them to develop skills and discover talents which they were not aware they had.

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Furthermore, if the students had read the history chapter that afternoon, chances are they would recall it better than I did, not having a chance to review it before class.

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Although we would like to believe that all undergraduate students are rigorous seekers of knowledge, the job that many college students are really trying to get done, from our observation, is to pass their courses without having to read the textbook at all.

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