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Financial Times And Citi Name Community Cooker Foundation The Global Winner At…

In addition to the global award, winners were recognised in four categories - education, energy, healthcare and infrastructure - for demonstrating particular originality, efficiency and impact in meeting urban challenges in their respective fields. Winners included: College Possible (Education), Community Cooker Foundation (Energy), GlaxoSmithKline New Citizen (Healthcare) and JCDecaux - Velib' (Infrastructure).
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11/12/2012

First Fullbridge Program in Saudi Arabia

During the 7-month Co-Op, students experience paid, full-time work with an employer in a professional environment. A large percentage of these assignments convert to full-time job offers for the students and many are in the top 100 Saudi firms.
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11/12/2012

Elsevier Starts Collaboration with Newly Established Siberian Regional…

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced its official collaboration with the Siberian Regional Universities Consortium, providing 9 universities in Central Siberia with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus beginning in 2013. This will provide Siberian researchers with access to research literature from around the world, allowing them to stay abreast of scientific developments in their field.
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11/12/2012

American University Launches Online International Relations Graduate Program

"With International Relations Online, SIS and its faculty are educating and preparing top international relations students to apply their knowledge and make an impact in an increasingly interconnected and complex world," said James Goldgeier, Dean, School of International Service, American University.
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11/12/2012

Home Affairs Committee's Drugs Report: Angelus Foundation Says the Prime…

The Prime Minister said today he has rejected a Royal Commission because it would be "very, very long-term" even though the HAC report set a time limit of 2015 for its completion.
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10/12/2012

Elsevier Starts Collaboration with Newly Established Far Eastern Consortium in…

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced its collaboration with the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), the leading University of Russia's Far Eastern Consortium, through a five-year collaboration agreement including access to ScienceDirect and Scopus for all Consortium members from January 2013 onwards.
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10/12/2012

Home Affairs Select Committee's Drugs Report: Angelus Condemns Government's…

The Home Affairs Select Committee report 'Breaking the Cycle' published today rightly highlights the highly worrying trend of young people taking many new substances with no knowledge of their risks. Last year, there were 49 new drugs discovered (EMCDDA figures) which was a record; this year the total could be as high as 70. At the same time, the Department of Education has cut its budget for drugs education by 80 percent. The HAC report itself refers to Government's lack of action as…
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09/12/2012

Jordan Welcomes IDP Education - IELTS Joint Owner and Study Abroad Advisor

In addition to the new Amman test centre, IDP Education is responding to demand for its trusted services across the Middle East with new IELTS test centres in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Libya, Oman, Turkey and Azerbaijan.
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07/12/2012

ETS Offers 10 Free Official Study Resources to Help Turkish Students Succeed on…

The free resources, available via the official ETS website, www.ets.org/toefl, and the TOEFL Go Anywhere website, www.TOEFLGoAnywhere.org, give students access to a number of useful test preparation tools, including sample test questions, test calendars and videos that provide an in-depth look at each section of the test. Additionally, the resources provide practical tips on how to master the English language and succeed in a variety of real-life study-abroad situations such as applying to…
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06/12/2012

MBA Employers Name World's Top 200 Business Schools

London Business School, INSEAD and Harvard are the preferred choice of international recruiters according to the 2012/13 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report published today at http://www.topmba.com.
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05/12/2012

Glamorgan Wins National Award for Outstanding Student Support

The award judges recognised Glamorgan's success in the provision of "instantly available" support and information to the University's 23,000 students across four campuses via the Glamlife student portal, "at any time, from any where, using any device." Glamlife offers students a one-stop-shop online resource, allowing them to do everything from looking for part-time jobs to sourcing support for dyslexia sufferers, to using the library and joining a sports club.
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03/12/2012

Santa's Draft Naughty and Nice List Revealed

Research by School Stickers, the leader in school rewards and creator of unique new behaviour management app 'Classroom Carrots', has revealed that children with these names are the most likely to behave well.
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03/12/2012

Breast Cancer Remains a Mystery in South Africa, Education Desperately Needed

Kotschan has travelled internationally as a speaker on breast cancer education and awareness strategies and how these can flourish as a support to state-funded health programmes in low-resource settings.
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30/11/2012

Blackboard and Pearson Announce International Content Integration Partnership

The systems integration includes single sign-on, improved workflows and state-of-the-art Web services that enable instructors to find and access MyLab & Mastering within their Blackboard learning system. Faculty can synchronize gradebooks, transfer information and create corresponding links in both systems. Instructors are also able to customize their courses by choosing content and rearranging items in the content area and course navigation bar.
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29/11/2012

Delhi School of Business Announces Admission to PGDM

Delhi School of Business [DSB] offers the A.I.C.T.E. accredited 2 year full-time PGDM program and stands apart for its dynamic curriculum structure that doesn't just respond to market needs, but predicts them.
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29/11/2012

Sahlberg wins prize for explaining Finland's school success

Pasi Sahlberg, who directs the country's Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation, has earned the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for answering that question in his 2011 book, "Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?"
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29/11/2012

Blackboard Mobile Apps Reach 4.5 Million Downloads

During the first two months of the fall 2012 semester alone, Blackboard Mobile™ Learn was downloaded an average of 7,000 times per day with students logging in over 70 million times. Blackboard Mobile™ Central helped students, alumni and others keep track of the college sports season and other news with over 10 million user checks of game scores, articles and schedules.
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27/11/2012

Making Employees Your Most Competitive Business Advantage

The show will be held under the patronage of the United Arab Emirates Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, under the theme of "Nurturing tomorrow's leaders".
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27/11/2012

Global Campus for Water & Development Receives Green Light

The UNESCO-IHE Global Campus for Water & Development is an international UNESCO-IHE networking organization with education and research sites as well as nodes of excellence. The Global Campus will close the gap in the broad field of specialist capacity needed in the field of water worldwide by providing more education at a regional level to young talented people via partners and in the future also in collaboration with regional UNESCO-IHE institutes.
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26/11/2012

MYRA Joins the QS World MBA Tour in Five Indian Cities

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26/11/2012

Hidden Danger of Asbestos in Schools "Comes as no Surprise"

Bridget Collier, head of the Industrial Disease team at Fentons Personal Injury Solicitors LLP and a specialist in asbestos claims, said that the shock closure of the 900-strong Cwmcarn High School was potentially just the tip of the iceberg.
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22/11/2012

Blackboard Unveils Major Update for Flagship LMS

Backed by a substantial amount of user testing and research, the release offers an enhanced approach to system usability that is consistent with the experience that teachers and learners have come to expect from current technology.
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22/11/2012

LEAD|Turkey Partners with Performance Learning Systems to Introduce Learning…

"Our goal in bringing the Kaleidoscope Profile to Turkey is to provide what we believe is the best learning styles evaluation system available," said JT Rehill, managing director for LEAD|Turkey. "With knowledge of the various learning styles in their classroom, educators have the power to design interactive lesson plans that will create a motivating and interesting learning environment for students."
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22/11/2012

BIOS's RPI2.0 Announces Crowdsourcing Experiment - The Seasonal Forecast…

Based in Bermuda, the risk capital of the world, RPI2.0 works to create effective and efficient dialogue between scientists and (re)insurers involved in catastrophic risk. RPI2.0, located within the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), funds and showcases academic research relevant to the (re)insurance industry and assists in translating science into applications for the industry. As part of its ongoing efforts to monitor seasonal forecasts, RPI2.0 is looking to crowdsourcing as a viable…
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22/11/2012
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