Mr Disney said the prince's chief academic interest had been history, which he went on to study at university, but like all the students he became involved with community service.

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The Schwarzman Scholars programme aims to rival the 111-year-old Rhodes Scholarship programme which enables foreign students to study at the UK's University of Oxford.

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Islamic scholars traveled great distances to study in the city's university, which had 25, 000 students during its zenith, and was comprised of three mosques.

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Scholars from around the Islamic world traveled to the oasis city to study at the prestigious University of Sankore, which had some 25, 000 students and 180 Koranic schools in its heyday.

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The Rhodes was joined in 1954 by the Marshall Scholarship, which sends American students to any U.K. university for two years, to study whatever they like.

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The Director-General's comments were in response to the research study conducted jointly by New York University and Bahcesehir University which revealed high level of post-traumatic stress and severe depression amongst the children in the refugee camps.

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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.

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On average, couples in which one partner is a workaholic divorce at twice the average rate, according to a 1999 study conducted by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Bryan Robinson.

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