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International Certificate of Christian Education: ready for university?

Is the International Certificate of Christian Education (ICCE) evidence that you’re ready for university? Michael Reiss and I wanted to know, so we researched it, and we’ve published our findings in the Oxford Review of Education (paywalled link). It’s the first peer-reviewed article to discuss Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) substantially since 2010, and the first to focus on it entirely since 1993 (more paywalls, sorry). ... Read More »

White nationalist rally at University of Virginia

Hundreds of US white nationalists have rallied at the University of Virginia, protesting against plans to remove a statue of a confederate general. The group waved torches and chanted “Jews will not replace us” and “white lives matter” as they marched through the Charlottesville university. There were clashes with counter-protesters, while the local mayor condemned the march as racist. A ... Read More »

Generation Z is starting university – but is higher education ready?

Change is coming and this new generation of students is leading it. Photograph: Alamy We all know that there’s a change coming in higher education, and it’s not only government agencies and Brexit driving it. A new digitally innate generation of students is just beginning to enter our universities, prompting the question: are we ready for this influx of industrious, ... Read More »

Peking University to open business school in Oxford

The university’s HSBC Business School will open just outside of Oxford next year, with its first intake expected in August 2018. The largest intake to PHBS Oxford is expected to be students from the UK and Europe, but the school will also serve as an overseas campus for students from China. Visiting Chinese students will come to the campus starting the spring ... Read More »

Artificial Intelligence Hub Opened at Cambridge University by Stephen Hawking

Professor Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain’s Cambridge University. The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) will delve into AI applications ranging from increasingly “smart” smartphones to robot surgeons and “Terminator” style military droids. Funded by a £10 million ($12.3 million or roughly Rs. 82 crores) grant from the Leverhulme Trust, ... Read More »

Rajasthan woman located lifeless In university Hostel, trainer Accused Of Rape

The body of the female, who was studying to be a teacher, turned into located in a water tank on thehostel. BIKANER: HIGHLIGHTS 17-yr–antique‘s body determined in a water tank inside the hostel of her college woman‘s mother and father have accused physical schooling teacher of rape, murder university claims the woman dedicated suicide A 17-year antique lady from Rajasthan ... Read More »

IISc ranked India’s best university; IIM-B tops B-School list

IIM-Bangalore is the country’s top management institute, with an overall score of 93.04, followed by IIM Ahmedabad, with an overall score of 89.1. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore was judged the best Indian university in a national ranking released on Monday. With an overall score of 91.81, IISc topped the first National Institutional ... Read More »