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By Dave McGinn. He’s the 17-year-old high-school student from Long Island, N.Y., who pulled off the feat of getting in to all eight Ivy League colleges – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. More...

Giving another boost to the Kingdom’s higher education, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered the establishment of three new universities in Jeddah, Bisha and Hafr Al-Baten. It brings the total number of public universities in the Kingdom to 28.
Higher Education Minister Khaled Al-Anqari said King Abdulaziz University’s branches in north Jeddah as well as the colleges in Khulais and Kamil would be brought together under the new Jeddah University, which will have a total of 18 colleges and institutes. More...

By Shirley Zhao. Uncertainty about city’s new diploma system may be a factor behind the rise, says consultant.
The number of Hong Kong students entering universities in England has increased by almost a quarter as the overall number of overseas students in the country has declined for the first time in three decades. More...

By Jeon Jeong-yun and Kim Ji-hoon. With grim job prospects, students who could graduate are hanging on at university for longer, and paying for it.
As of early 2014, she had enough credits to graduate from Yonsei University, but chose not to. Instead, the student, surnamed Jeong, chose to defer her graduation. It was a last, desperate grasp after repeatedly coming up short in qualification examinations and job applications. More...

By Elizabeth Weiss. On a frigid Thursday evening in February, more than two hundred and fifty residents of Valparaiso, Indiana, gathered for a school-board meeting in the cafeteria of Benjamin Franklin Middle School. The meeting was supposed to be about the search for a new superintendent, but many of the attendees had another purpose: to protest the school board’s preliminary approval of a proposal by a private company, Lumenus USA, to enroll up to thirty tuition-paying foreign students at the public high school. More...

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will establish a new academic center focused on Southeast Asia, Singapore media reported on Thursday.
The establishment of the center came after the institution received "significant donation" from its Singaporean graduates Saw Swee Hock.
Saw is known for his teaching career and his success as an investor. He is now a member of the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore and patron of the Saw Center for Financial Studies of the university's Business School. More...

L'institut d'études politiques (IEP) provençal continue de se déployer à l'international, avec la signature de deux nouveaux partenariats en Arménie et à la Réunion.
Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence veut encore accroître sa cadence en matière de développement à l’international. Après la signature récente d’un cursus franco-russe, l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques aixois se tourne désormais vers l’Arménie et la Réunion. "Ces deux nouvelles implantations démontrent combien notre école et la qualité de ses enseignements ont fait souche à l’international et au-delà de notre enseignement, la culture française et ses retombées économiques", souligne Christian Duval, directeur de l’IEP. More...

Ils sont 16 ministres, huit hommes et huit femmes, à former le nouveau gouvernement dirigé par Manuel Valls. Mais quelles études ont-ils suivies ? Orientations a mené son enquête et vous dévoile les diplômes de chaque ministre. More...

Certains demandeurs d'emplois trouvent parfois un poste très rapidement. Pour ce faire, nombre d'entre eux disposent d'astuces ou "d'habitudes intelligentes" selon LinkedIn, qui a listé ces comportements productifs.
Alors que le chômage des jeunes ne faiblit pas, certains demandeurs d'emploi ont l'air d'être relativement efficaces en matière de recherche. Intrigué, LinkedIn a sondé les habitudes des personnes ayant trouvé un poste en trois mois. More...