Princeton University has released details of a gap year program under which recently admitted students can defer their studies for the year after high school to participate in international service programs. This seems an interesting idea because it lets young students focus on the issues faced by cultures other than their own at a time [...]
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High school students in the United Kingdom face similar concerns regarding costs as do their peers in the United States. Many select schools close to home just to minimize the overall price of their higher education. This raises special concerns for some disciplines like physics which are not generally taught at regional colleges and universities.
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Higher education can serve as an excellent bridge between cultures, as witness the increasing number of students from the Arab world now pursuing their studies in the United States. Active recruitment by universities including the University of Chicago, can help attract more students, but closer collaboration between individual schools and the Department of Education will [...]
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The THES World University Ranking was released late last year by the Times Higher Education Supplement. It attempts to provide a common scheme on which the best universities worldwide may be identified. Number one on this scorecard was Harvard University, followed by a three-way tie for second place involving Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. The U.S. [...]
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American universities have begun to admit students to their undergraduate programs in Qatar, the site of the new 2500-acre Education City complex. Of these, Cornell’s medical school opened first, but it has now been joined by Virginia Commonwealth, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon and Northwestern University altogether making room for around 300 students in the first-year [...]
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It was only a few years ago that most all American universities limited their international programs to some sort of study-aborad opportunity for their undergraduate students. All of that is starting to change, as many schools have undertaken the development of full-fledged university campuses at remote locations, a trend that is outlined in the first [...]
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It used to be that students spent the summers before going off to college earning money to fund their studies, but the new trend is for particularly eager (and financially gifted) potential Ivy League applicants to spend their high school summers in attractive study programs that help swell their admissions credentials. These programs can offer [...]
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I missed this earlier, but Dartmouth College recently announced that it is extending its policy of need-blind admissions to international students. This means that the admit/deny decision will be made without consideration of the student’s ability to pay and further implies that aid packaging will then be based on the demonstrated ability of that student [...]
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If you’re looking for evidence that the world has truly become a much smaller place, consider this. Oxford University’s Chancellor, Lord Chris Patten, has gone to India to recruit students for his school, something that has become necessary because of intense competition between Oxbridge and the Ivy League. I guess the British Empire has truly [...]
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The world used to be a simpler place, or so say some, but there’s no question that both students and faculty involved in study abroad programs have to be aware of the possibility that they might have to be evacuated under difficult circumstances. To illustrate the point consider the case of a group of Cornell [...]
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