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Bank's U-turn on student charges
A student campaign using the social networking website Facebook has forced an international bank into a U-turn over charges.
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University 'non-courses' attacked
Hundreds of university "non-courses" should be abolished as a waste of public money, a group campaigning for lower taxes has said.
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A report from the Taxpayers' Alliance highlighted 401 such courses starting this autumn in the UK, which it said cost £40m a year to run.
Broadband revolutionizes education on remote Maldives atolls
RASHDOO ISLAND, Maldives - The standard of education was falling in the Maldives before broadband Internet access brought a quiet online revolution to classrooms in the Indian Ocean atoll nation.
Now Asina Ahmed hooks up to the Internet and uses a smart board with a touch-sensitive screen to liven up a mathematics class for a group of young Maldivian children on remote Rashdoo Island.
With a high IQ comes need for special education
By Charles Murray
I define the "intellectually gifted" as those individuals who can stand out in almost any profession. Research indicates an IQ of at least 120 is usually needed to achieve this. This covers the top 10 per cent of the IQ distribution, or about a million people out of Australia's total labour force.
Warning over UK university status
The UK could lose its place at the top of world university rankings within 10 years, the vice-chancellor of Cambridge University has warned.
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Professor Alison Richard told MPs the quality of research in the UK must not be undermined by the drive to raise student numbers.
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