All posts tagged "education"

  • pomona-college
    Pomona ranked No. 1 on Forbes best colleges list

    Forbes released its top-10 colleges for 2015 recently, and the results may come as a surprise. The publication dubbed a California university as the best in the U.S. for 2015. No, it’s not Stanford or University of...

    • Posted July 31, 2015
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  • Barack Obama
    Obama again praises S. Korea for ‘paying teachers the way they pay doctors’

    By Brian Han During U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday regarding a new government initiative to bring high speed internet access to low-income groups, the topic of South Korea’s education system came up. “In South Korea...

    • Posted July 17, 2015
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  • (NEWSis)
    S. Korea may implement test-free semester to ease academic pressure

    SEOUL, June 29 (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye called on Monday for efforts to ensure that a test-free semester program for middle school students will succeed, describing it as a key task to fundamentally change South Korea’s...

    • Posted June 29, 2015
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  • Widener Libary at Harvard University (Courtesy of Wally Gobetz via Flickr/Creative Commons)
    [Boston Globe] To get into elite colleges, some advised to ‘appear less Asian’

    Brian Taylor is director of Ivy Coach, a Manhattan company that advises families on how to get their students into elite colleges. A number of his clients are Asian American, and Taylor is frank about...

    • Posted June 3, 2015
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  • Class at women's university in South Korea (NEWSis)
    Fewer foreign students choose Korean colleges

    By Jung Min-ho After the number of foreign students in Korea reached almost 90,000 in 2011, the Ministry of Education announced an ambitious plan the following year to raise that number to 200,000 by 2020. Since then,...

    • Posted May 26, 2015
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  • (Yonhap)
    Binge drinking worst among better-educated women

    By Rachel Lee Highly educated professional women drink at dangerous levels, a study has found. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), among the biggest binge drinkers in 15 developed countries are wealthier, better-educated...

    • Posted May 14, 2015
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  • Princeton University (Courtesy of Harshil Shah via Flickr/Creative Commons)
    [Forbes] 10 Colleges whose students almost always repay debts

        How do you determine the value of a college education? As the cost of college skyrockets and each graduating class comes out more indebted than the last, it’s a question that has grown in importance in...

    • Posted May 14, 2015
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