Free courses from 190 universities of the world

In case you haven't heard, universities around the world offer their courses online for free (or at least partially free of charge). These courses are called BOOK or Large Open Online Courses, writes Lifter. Over the past six years, about 800 universities have created over 10 such BOOKs. Only…

A university worker involved in a bribe-taking scandal is now selling a house and driving Lyft

A senior official at the University of Southern California, who was fired after the college admission scandal, now works as a Lyft driver and sells her mansion for $ 2 million, writes the NY Post. Donna Heinel lost her job as Senior Assistant Director of Sports last month ...

In 2020, millions of Americans can write off student loan debts

Warren's plan is to completely cancel student loans for the 75% of Americans with debt, according to her campaign. 2020 presidential hopeful Senator Elizabeth Warren has announced a plan to cancel student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, making…

How to get a private pilot license in the USA for two months

Nikolai Batrakov from Russia outlined step by step how to get a pilot's license in the USA, how much it costs and what you need to prepare for. I am a light aircraft pilot. In less than a year, I went from being an aerophobe to being a private pilot in the United States. To achieve your goal, ...

How does the average American family pay for college

In recent years, the average private college has charged $ 43,921 for tuition, board and room. Public schools were asking $ 19,548 for students from the same state as the school, and $ 34,031 for students from out of state. The sums are large, so CNN turned to the Sallie Mae report, ...

Schoolgirl nominated for the Nobel Prize: she quit her studies to fight climate change

Her ideas were supported by more than 20 thousand teenagers from 270 cities of the world. On March 14, members of the left-wing parties of the parliaments of Sweden and Novergia nominated 16-year-old eco-activist Greta Thunberg for the Nobel Peace Prize. In August 2018, she refused to go to school until ...

In the United States revealed a fraudulent scheme for admission to prestigious universities: even stars

In the United States, 50 persons involved in the case of mass fraud when entering the country's leading universities were charged, writes RTVi. This is a fraudulent scheme in which parents paid an organization that allegedly prepared applicants for admission to the university. In fact ...

How to finish university in the USA without a debt on the student loan

Almost 70% of graduates of American universities at the time of graduation have student loan debts. Most American students, according to a study by one of the centers of the University of Pennsylvania, cannot close the loan completely, because for this they would have to work 35 ...

What Silicon Valley principles apply in US schools

I hope you won't argue with me that Silicon Valley is one of the world's main centers of innovation. We owe the development of computers and everything connected with them to this small piece of land in California. What are the names Apple, Microsoft, ...

An American student was seriously injured, but he graduated and went to get a diploma in the exoskeleton. VIDEO

After an unsuccessful jump into the pool, the student's life completely changed, he even was going to drop out. In 2015, college student in South Florida, Aldu Amenta, suffered a severe spinal injury when he dived into a pool unsuccessfully. He was paralyzed and could only move in a wheelchair. According to Amenta, his life has completely changed: ...

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