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Studying Abroad in Times of the Globalized Labor Market
As the genesis of every nation’s economic and cultural development, education apropos higher education, is essential thus the investment as much as financial and social is ever-growing. Fundamentally, the rise and fall of a state’s policy regardless of the politics always goes back to the roots and is attributed to […]
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The Economics of Education
It can be difficult to gauge the balance between making university places accessible but also maintaining their value – here’s how Singapore does it University degrees are a strange commodity. They don’t surge in value when demand gets feverish but instead, like the shares of a listed company, become diluted […]
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Birmingham University protest ban attacked as ‘aggressive and censorious’
The human rights groups in UK are condemning Birmingham University for the ban on ‘occupation-style’ protests. Birmingham University had obtained a high court injunction banning all occupation-style protests in the campus for one year. Read more
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Qualified Yet Unemployed: The Plight of Educated Young People in Sri Lanka
Sanjana Wickramasinghe, a 23 year-old hotel receptionist in Kandy, spends a good part of her morning browsing through job portals online and newspapers looking for a better opportunity. “I feel like I’m not doing justice to my education: with a degree in hotel management, I’m stuck here answering calls every […]