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News from NY1: First Lady Michelle Obama will be in the city later today touting the importance of higher education. She will visit the headquarters of Global Kids, Inc., a youth education nonprofit. The First Lady met two of the organization’s summer students at a Department of Education event in Washington last month. She will [...]

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News from Chalkbeat Colorado: The proposed $ 100 million increase in higher education funding is returning to the place where the plan started – the governor’s office. The House Friday voted 48-16 for final passage of Senate Bill 14-001 – what’s called the College Affordability Act. The bill will provide $ 60 million in additional [...]

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News from The Express Tribune: The idea is to promot­e awaren­ess about the import­ance of qualit­y higher educat­ion. The idea is to promote awareness about the importance of quality higher education. PHOTO: FILE LAHORE:  The University of Health Sciences kicked off its Quality Assurance Awareness Week on its campus on Monday. The idea is to [...]

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News from The Economist: WHEN LaTisha Styles graduated from Kennesaw State University in Georgia in 2006 she had $ 35,000 of student debt. This obligation would have been easy to discharge if her Spanish degree had helped her land a well-paid job. But there is no shortage of Spanish-speakers in a nation that borders Latin [...]

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News from Austin American-Statesman: The ballyhoo over Texas dropping Algebra 2 as a high school graduation requirement last year might have been exaggerated, Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes acknowledged to legislators Wednesday. Students need four years of challenging high school math to be ready for college, but Algebra 2 doesn’t necessarily have to be one [...]

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News from ABC News: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush, potential foes in the 2016 presidential contest, said Monday that higher education has the power to transform lives and be a force for democracy around the globe. Clinton and Bush spoke separately at the Globalization of Higher Education conference, but chatted briefly offstage. The event, [...]

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News from World Bank Group: KIGALI, March 12, 2014—As Sub-Saharan Africa develops rapidly, it is estimated that the continent will need millions of engineers just to reach a single Millennium Development Goal, that of access to safe water and improved sanitation. However, there is a serious shortage of engineers—and also of scientists, health professionals and [...]

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