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Some top international colleges offer free tuition

Kim Clark New York Daily News 09/22/2010

University of California considering online bachelor's degree programs

Nanette Asimov San Francisco Chronicle 07/12/2010
Some top international colleges offer free tuition

As the sticker prices of elite American, British, and Australian colleges skyrocket, a few of their competitors in other countries are keeping tuition low and offering more courses in English to attract students from around the world.

University of California considering online bachelor's degree programs

Taking online college courses is, to many, like eating at McDonald's: convenient, fast and filling. You may not get filet mignon, but afterward you're just as full. Now the University of California wants to jump into online education for undergraduates, hoping to become the nation's first top-tier research institution to offer a bachelor's degree over the Internet comparable in quality to its prestigious campus program.

Aristotle's all Greek to Cambridge classicists as inscription by philosopher is misspelled on £1.3m building

If anyone should be able to get a Greek inscription right, it ought to be the Classics department at Cambridge University. But embarrassingly for the seat of learning, an error has crept into the inscription at the entrance to the department's new £1.3million extension.

US university introduces electronic monitoring of student attendance

Would students benefit from a bit more encouragement to get up in the morning for lectures? Academics in the US are debating a decision by Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff to introduce a monitoring system to check when students attend, or miss, class. Sensors will detect students' identification cards when they enter the lecture theatres. If they don't turn up often enough, they could find it reflected in their grades.

UTSA College of Business Ranked #1 in the Nation by Hispanic Business

University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business 09/03/2009
The world's top 100 universities named

The 2009 ranking of world universities shows a rise in the number of Asian universities and a fall in the number of North American universities in the top 100.

UTSA College of Business Ranked #1 in the Nation by Hispanic Business

The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business has been ranked the No. 1 graduate business school in the nation for Hispanics by Hispanic Business in their September 2009 edition.

UC Berkeley to lay off employees, cut courses

San Jose Mercury News 08/27/2009

Scrambling for a College Class This Fall?

UC Berkeley Extension 08/25/2009
UC Berkeley to lay off employees, cut courses

BERKELEY, Calif.—The University of California, Berkeley is laying off roughly 300 employees and cutting about 8 percent of its courses to address a steep drop in state funding.

Scrambling for a College Class This Fall?

$3 billion in cuts to California's community colleges and state universities has left thousands of students scrambling to find the courses they need this fall. But a little known program at UC Berkeley and other state universities may offer an answer.

Harvard and Princeton Top the U.S. News College Rankings

KEITH J. WINSTEIN The Wall Street Journal 08/19/2009

University of Georgia Offers Executive Coaching Certification Program This Fall

University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education 08/03/2009
Harvard and Princeton Top the U.S. News College Rankings

Harvard University and Princeton University again topped the annual ranking of U.S. universities published by U.S. News & World Report magazine, reflecting a year of little change on the influential list.

University of Georgia Offers Executive Coaching Certification Program This Fall

As businesses operate in a challenging economy, decisions have to be reasoned, sharp and focused. As more organizations and executives incorporate professional coaching into their development initiatives, the need for certified executive coaches has soared.


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