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The U.S. News World’s Best Universities rankings are released today. And based on data from the 2011 QS World University Rankings, the number one university in the world comes from the United Kingdom. For the second year in a row,…
What is the ‘Oxford comma’? The ‘Oxford comma‘ is an optional comma before the word ‘and’ at the end of a list: Example: We sell books, videos, and magazines. It’s known as the Oxford comma because it was traditionally used…
The Oxford English Dictionary? added six new words to its collection. Here are the newest words: Retweet: Sharing a Twitter message Sexting: Flirting by sending saucy phone text messages Cyberbullying: The use of information technology to bully a person by…
National University, the second-largest private, non-profit institution of higher education in California and the 12th largest in the United States, conferred more master’s degrees in education to minority students than any other college or university in California during the 2009-2010…
The Princeton Review‘s released the list of top party schools in 2012 in its guidebook, “The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition” (Random House / Princeton Review Books, $22.99). Ohio University in Athens has been ranked as the top party school…
NASA has selected the inaugural class of Space Technology Research Fellows. Eighty-one students will receive graduate student fellowships from NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist to pursue master’s or doctoral degrees in relevant space technology disciplines at their respective institutions….
From February to September 2012 at Rome’s Capitoline Museums, secret Vatican documents from the Secret Archives will be displayed for an exhibit called “Lux in Arcana: The Vatican Secret Archives Revealed“. The exhibit is for the occasion of the Archive’s…
The British Institute of Technology and E-commerce in London is to offer full tuition fee scholarships for Masters programmes to students with a first class honours degree. BITE’s Master programmes are validated by Coventry University, University of East London and…
As schools across the country let out this month, a joint project launched today by New York’s hometown value carrier JetBlue Airways and PBS KIDS aims to keep children reading wherever they go this summer – with a combination of…
Sukanya Roy, 14 years old, wins the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The Indian-American from South Abington, Penn. spelled the word cymotrichous correctly to win the title, beating runner-up Laura Newcombe. She has competed in the bee three times now,…