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26 juillet 2017

How to succeed in college with a disability

If you’re entering college as a student with a disability, the first thing you should know is that you’re not alone. In a study of approximately 11,000 young adults with disabilities, nearly 20 percent were found to have attended a four-year college or university at some point after high school. More...

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26 juillet 2017

Put Muslim characters who don’t need to be ‘saved’ on school reading lists

As the film industry begins to heed criticisms from places like the “Oscars So White” movement, the advocacy of groups like We Need Diverse Books, with its mission to offer children more books that reflect them and their lives, is making waves in publishing too. More...

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26 juillet 2017

The risky lure of Caribbean offshore medical schools

Many Canadians dream of becoming a doctor. The reality is that only a fraction of students who apply to Canadian medical schools are admitted. This reality is driving an increasing number of Canadian undergraduates to offshore medical schools in Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana, Aruba and other Caribbean countries. More...

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26 juillet 2017

Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs

While on the run from war, persecution and natural disasters, refugees are actually helping others in their situation. They are creating organisations and enterprises that train and offer jobs to fellow refugees, giving them a fresh start. More...

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26 juillet 2017

Pickett’s Charge: What modern mathematics teaches us about Civil War battle

The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the American Civil War, and Gen. George Pickett’s infantry charge on July 3, 1863, was the battle’s climax. Had the Confederate Army won, it could have continued its invasion of Union territory. Instead, the charge was repelled with heavy losses. This forced the Confederates to retreat south and end their summer campaign. More...

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26 juillet 2017

Teaching little girls to lead

By the age of two, most children use gender pronouns in their speech and proactively identify people as men and women. And by the time they turn seven, little boys and little girls have already learnt a lot about what is expected of them within our – binary – gender system. More...

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26 juillet 2017

Why the US doesn’t understand Chinese thought – and must

The need for the U.S. to understand China is obvious. The Chinese economy is on track to become the largest in the world by 2030, Chinese leadership may be the key to resolving the nuclear crisis with North Korea and China has military and economic ambitions in the South China Sea and India. More...

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26 juillet 2017

Let graduates use super to pay off HELP debt faster

If the Senate passes budget reforms for higher education, Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) repayments would start earlier, with a wider range of rates: 1% of income for those earning A$42,000, rising to 10% at $120,000. More...

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26 juillet 2017

Free textbooks for first-year university students could help improve retention rates

Despite 20 years of focus on improving university retention rates, we are still losing one in five of our first-year students.
And the release of a new report by TEQSA again reminds us of the challenges of retention. More...

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26 juillet 2017

Why many high-achieving Indigenous students are shunning university

Indigenous students remain vastly underrepresented in higher education in Australia. According to Universities Australia, Indigenous people comprise 2.7% of Australia’s working age population but only 1.6% of university domestic student enrolments. More...

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