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New Partnership Aims to Diversify Medical Device Sales

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students in the New York tri-state area will have a new opportunity this summer to explore a lucrative career in healthcare, thanks to a partnership between Mercy University and Medical Sales College (MSC). The program will be the first of its kind in the area. Ultimately, the career is very rewarding.

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‘Being a girl is a heavy crime’: Afghan women in despair over university ban

The Guardian Higher Education

Taliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnation It was late evening in Kabul, and Sabra*, a fourth-year medical student, saw a WhatsApp message appear on her phone. Girls, what’s going on here?” “Girls, what’s going on here?” the friend wrote. “Is Is it true?”

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It involves seven state-supported universities and one private university, including UNC Chapel Hill, NC State, and Duke. Now, the medical industry understands how agriculture plays a crucial role in overall health and wellbeing,” says Williams. This is a $1.5 billion biopolis making breakthrough discoveries in nutrition.

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How to build more flexible academic pathways for the changing college student

University Business

Looking at students through the lifelong lens, Butler+ is the private university’s answer to the new wave of continuous learning modalities catching fire across the country, offering a wide array of credential types for various career pathways while erasing the friction points typical for adult learners. .

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How toxic incentives are fueling an ‘epidemic’ of cheating in scholarly research

University Business

“Even though we have private universities, it’s really kind of a private-public entity with hundreds of billions of dollars tied up in it. ” “Academia is an industry,” he says. People—whether from the left or right—are going to exploit those bad incentives on their own behalf.”

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The Value of Micro-Credentials for Higher Ed Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 154 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Matt Frank

The Change Leader, Inc.

Higher ed and employers can trust micro-credentials backed by professional organizations like the American Medical Association or the American Psychological Association that create standards of professionalism for their industries. You can see that in the medical and healthcare fields. And it’s highly focused on technology.

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Study in Europe – Universities, Courses, Student Visa, Work Permit

Buddy4Study

Austria offers 6 kinds of higher education institutions – 22 Universities (including 6 Universities of the Arts, 3 Medical Universities and 3 Technical Universities). 16 Private Universities. 21 Universities of Applied Sciences. 14 University Colleges of Teacher Education.