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Calle 13 honored by Argentine university

Buenos Aires, Jun 2, 2012 -- Puerto Rican urban band Calle 13 has been honored by Argentina's National University of La Plata for its contributions to popular communication and culture, the institution said.

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Yesterday | Fiji Times

Education for all

Graduates show their certificates after their graduation organised by Fiji National University at Muana Village in Toga, Rewa on Thursday.

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Fri Jun 01, 2012

Fiji Times

Calls to introduce financial education program

THE Ministry of Education has started talks with the Fiji National University and Corpus Christi College to integrate financial education into their teacher training programs.

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Related Topix: Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Family

Daily Times

Volkswagen Beetle-themed degree show at BNU

Staff Report LAHORE: The Annual Degree Show 2012 of Beaconhouse National University's School of Visual Arts and Design at the BNU Tarogil Campus featured works on the theme 'Volkswagen Beetle'. The thesis project of a student, Ibrahim Malik, managed to grab attention of most of the visitors who praised the work.

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Related Topix: Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen, Hatchback, Convertible, School of Visual Arts

Kansas City InfoZine

Rewrapping of Peruvian Mummy Generates Interest in Death and Memory in the Amazon

Peru's Minister of Culture has invited KU Professor and students to present their research at the National Museum in Lima.

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Related Topix: University of Kansas, Anthropology, Science

Fiji Times

TB scare

THE Fiji National University has temporarily closed one of its centres after some students and staff were diagnosed with tuberculosis.

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Related Topix: Fiji, World News

Thu May 31, 2012

Fiji Times

$1000 campus penalty

A PENALTY of $1000 will be imposed on anyone caught smoking in Fiji National University campuses, properties and vehicles from today.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health

Fiji Times

Majority of adult smokers are men: WHO

This group of trainee teachers were part of the declaration of the Fiji National University as a tobacco-free university at the FNU campus in Nasinu yesterday.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health

Daily Times

QS Ranking 2012: 5 Pakistani universities among 300 top Asian universities

Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Investment in higher education in the country continues to reap dividends as according to QS World Universities Rankings 2012, five Pakistani universities have won a place in the list of top 300 universities in Asia.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Asia, Nuclear Energy

Korea Herald

New directors' shorts to fill the silver screen

The 11th Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival to showcase 60 original pieces A lot of local aspiring filmmakers must be excited, as the annual Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival is kicking off this year's edition.

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Related Topix: The Good, the Bad, and the Weird

The Day

We are not outsiders, or Old skills won't do

Pinning hopes on the authorities is a feature that the Ukrainians have inherited from the previous regimes.

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Singapore Entrepreneurs

Meeple hopes to lessen the suffering of South Korean students

Tangible Idea , a mobile development team from Korea, has launched Meeple , a mobile app that aims to provide mentoring services to those who are in dire need of academic and personal help.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Family

Arirang TV

SNU Launches Academic Honesty Comm. to Investigate Recent Case of...

Seoul National University on Wednesday launched an academic honesty committee to investigate recent allegations that a researcher fabricated data during the course of her research on stem cells.

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Wed May 30, 2012

The RiotACT

ANU should change its tune: why online lessons do not replace live music

Submit a new article Find our more about RiotACT/Read the FAQ Register a user account Find out about advertising on RiotACT Enter a giveaway Contact a site administrator The Australian National University has recently announced serious changes to the School of Music in Canberra.

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Related Topix: Manhattan School of Music

Korea Herald

Ahn again defers decision on presidential bid

Popular software developer and professor Ahn Cheol-soo has once again deferred a decision whether he will run for president, saying he is still thinking about whether he will be able to meet people's expectations as a politician.

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Related Topix: South Korea, World News

Chosun Ilbo

Korean Academic Publications Hold Up Poorly

Korean universities generally rose in the 2012 Asian University Rankings, but the quality of academic papers, a key criterion for university competitiveness, still fell short of international standards.

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University of Kansas

Peruvian mummy focuses attention on death, memory in the Amazon

Although more than a decade has passed since Peru's 20-year violent civil war with guerrilla forces ended in 2000, many indigenous Peruvians are reluctant to speak publicly about death and memory - the essence of the truth and reconciliation efforts now in progress.

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Related Topix: University of Kansas, Anthropology, Science

People's Daily Online

HKUST hangs on for Asia's No.1 institution

Edited and translated by Li Kunlun, People's Daily Online Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is ranked Asia's number one institution again, according to this year's university rankings released by Quacquarelli Symonds on Monday.

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Related Topix: Indonesia, World News,

Oranje FM

Lesotho polls decided

Lesotho's ruling party won the most votes in weekend parliamentary polls but fell short of the required majority to govern alone, and will have to form a coalition, final results showed yesterday.

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Related Topix: Lesotho, Africa, World News

Tue May 29, 2012

VietNam News

Nation to assess English teachers

Viet Nam was looking to implement a comprehensive assessment of graduates from English teaching colleges in an effort to improve the quality of English teachers, said Nguyen Ngoc Hung, manager of the Ministry of Education and Training 's National Foreign Languages 2020 Project.

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