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American Universities Up Foreign Student Intake
13 Feb 2012 • 7:35 WIBSeattle. This is the University of Washington’s new math 18 percent of it is freshmen come from abroad , most from china. Each pay tuition of $28,059 about three time as much as students from Washington state. And that according to the dean of admission, is how low-income Washingtonians-more than a quarter of the class-get [...]
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Greetings from Tohoku University
14 Jan 2012 • 1:48 WIBDear all, I hope this email finds you well. It is our great pleasure to introduce our undergraduate and graduate degree courses taught in English to prospective students living all around the world. Tohoku University has a long tradition of welcoming students from other countries. Currently we have around 1,500 international students from many different [...]
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In coaching heartland Kota, the competition’s for faculty
5 Jan 2012 • 4:19 WIBOver 20 years ago, V. K. Bansal, an engineer who suffered from muscular dystrophy, began the first IIT-JEE coaching institution in Kota, pioneering the coaching class boom in this sleepy town in Rajasthan. Virtually all coaching classes in Kota, including the popular “Resonance”, were started by former faculty at Bansal Classes. And now, seven teachers [...]
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IIT-JEE coaching pioneer to down shutters after 57 years
5 Jan 2012 • 4:10 WIBMUMBAI: A city-based institution has decided to slip quietly into history. Agrawal Classes, that large blue neonlit sign seen from the Dadar flyover, will turn its lights off as the coaching institute has decided to down its shutters after sharpening a million minds for 57 years. G D Agrawal, who started tutoring children in maths [...]
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First there was ‘Tiger Mum’, now there is ‘Wolf Dad’
5 Jan 2012 • 3:42 WIBBeijing – The roar of America’s ‘Tiger Mum’ was heard worldwide earlier this year. Now a ‘Wolf Dad’ from China is boasting about his tough child-rearing techniques. Guangzhou businessman Xiao Baiyu, 47, has written That’s Why They Go To Peking University, which echoes Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother by Chinese American mother Amy Chua. [...]
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University of Denver
21 Dec 2011 • 8:36 WIBDecember 2011 Dear International Education Friends, We hope you will take some time this holiday season to relax. Reflect and recuperate after a semester of advising, recommendation-writing, transcript-uploading and student/parent reassuring. We want to thank you for all you do to enable students to follow their dreams and continue their life-long learning. The university of [...]
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Inter-School Painting Contest
26 Nov 2011 • 2:33 WIBPainting is poetry, the only difference is that, it is seen rather than self on heard for years painting has been a made of expression and with it is rich heritage it has remained the most creative form of art. Not only this but also it is traditionally an important part of childhood for full [...]
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Othello Grade 12 Play
22 Nov 2011 • 7:37 WIBThe grand voyage has come to an end, to the accompaniment of tears and laughter. No, it is not an end, but just a completion. Our capabilities, as well as immense passion and zeal, resulted in the successful staging of the Grade 12 Annual Play, William Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, on the 19th of November, 2011. ‘Othello’ [...]
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The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
14 Nov 2011 • 3:03 WIB“Do you have a Hyde in you?” With the narrator, Salil of grade 10A speaking the meaningful line above, the long-awaited annual play of Grade 10, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” adapted by Noah Smith from the Novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, unveiled itself in the auditorium of ‘The Gandhi Memorial [...]
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Helloween Day
12 Nov 2011 • 4:32 WIB“When witches go riding and black cats are seen he moon laughs and whispers tis near Halloween…” unknown Yes that was Halloween Day on 31 October 2011 in GMIS, we had a wonderful parade on the stage where the preschoolers walked on the ramp dressed as witches, ghosts, pumpkins, devils and skeletons, with great confidence [...]
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