Students were agitating over the infrastructure of the Centre for Disability Studies and Rehabilitation. KOLKATA: Jadavpur University vice-chancellor, registrar and other senior officials left the campus on Tuesday night after a section of the students gheraoed them for around 25 hours. A pro-vice-chancellor and other members of university’s Executive Council, the highest decision making body […]
Mala Dutta (left) and Shreya Mishra with their degrees(HT) Mala Dutta, 56, achieved her dream of receiving a PhD degree on Friday, 34 years after she stepped out of college. What made it a doubly memorable occasion was that her 28-year-old daughter, Shreya Mishra, was with her to pick up her own doctoral degree the […]
Mumbai University (File Photo) MUMBAI: The election season will affect Mumbai University’s exam schedule in April. While only one paper for TYBCom, taken by the highest number of students in the university, is likely to clash with a poll date in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, most others, like TYBA, TYBSc and second-year college exams, will have to […]
As far as dreams go, it is a fairly modest one. It is neither fame nor riches that student Belotte Walky aspires to; just a farm to help feed his compatriots, with jobs to keep them employed. This he divulges sitting under a 250-year-old ficus, one of many age-old trees shading the North Haiti Christian […]
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Argosy University ceased operations at campuses across the state Friday, abandoning hundreds of Hawaii students mid-semester. And students aren’t the only ones who will see the fallout. Experts say Argosy’s closure could leave the state struggling without enough licensed psychologists given their unique ― and popular clinical psychology doctoral program. Argosy has […]
Students from underrepresented backgrounds who applied and were interviewed for Cambridge but just fell short will be able to refer themselves to be reconsidered. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA The University of Cambridge is seeking to increase student diversity by offering disadvantaged candidates who narrowly miss out on a place a second chance to apply after they get their […]
The University of Michigan introduced an on-campus self-driving shuttle system last year. Photograph: University of Michigan Think of a university campus: it has its own roads, shops, residential areas, banks and transport links. It may be visited by tens of thousands of people each day. It is, in effect, a tiny city. Across the globe, […]
Students at the Colchester campus of Essex University. Photograph: Essex University A lecturer accused of posting antisemitic messages on Facebook has been suspended from the University of Essex. An investigation was launched after the computer science lecturer Dr Maaruf Ali allegedly posted the claim: “The Zionists next want to create a society here at our university,” on […]
