Tag: university
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Oxford or Cambridge: Which city makes a better day trip from London?
[ad_1] Both cities are a one-hour train ride away from the UK capital. ADVERTISEMENT Oxford versus Cambridge: it’s an age-old rivalry between two towns and their prestigious universities that dates back centuries. But as a tourist choosing a day trip from London, which architecturally alluring, history-packed city should you favour? Both destinations are easily walkable,…
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Film City To Also Host Cinema Varsity, To Be Built On 20 Acres | Noida News – Times of India
[ad_1] NOIDA: The International Film City will house a cinema university, which will come up on 20 acres in the 230-acre project in Sector 21 off the Yamuna Expressway, just 6km from the upcoming Noida International Airport. The university’s plan includes editing suites and VR labs, while set, costumes, and props manufacturing units are planned…
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Higher edu institutions to get accreditation status, grading system to go
[ad_1] The level-grading system shall enable Indian institutions to significantly improve their quality and position themselves among the global best, the official said | Photo: Pexels Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the country will no longer be given grades under the accreditation system, rather they will be categorised either as “accredited” or “not accredited”,…
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Opinion | ChatGPT and the New College Education
[ad_1] Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss chatbots and academic dishonesty. Next week we’ll ask, “Recent news stories have reported that Social Security is facing a $22 trillion cash shortfall through 2097, with the system’s trust funds currently projected to cover only 80% of required payouts as soon as 2034. Nearly all the…
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Opinion | The Donald Trump Ballot Problem
[ad_1] Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss the efforts to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. Next week we’ll ask, “A recent study suggests that worry about AI chatbots has been overblown, with American colleges not seeing an increase in overall cheating rates. But another study suggests that AI cheating is rampant, with…
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Opinion | For Country and for Yale
[ad_1] James Freeman is assistant editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and author of the weekday Best of the Web column. He is the co-author of “Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi,” recognized as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Financial Times Business Book of the…
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Opinion | Alan Sokal’s Joke Is on Us as Postmodernism Comes to Science
[ad_1] When I taught physics at Yale in the 1980s and ’90s, my colleagues and I took pride in our position on “science hill,” looking down on the humanities scholars in the intellectual valleys below as they were inundated in postmodernism and deconstructionism. This same attitude motivated the mathematician Alan Sokal to publish his famous…
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Opinion | Looking Beyond Harvard and the Border
[ad_1] Most immigrants, like most of our colleges and universities, are still a net plus for American life. [ad_2] Source link