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Nigeria: US$29m on scholarships in eight years

The PIE News

Quoting a statement attributed to Malam Muhammad Garba, former commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs under immediate former governor of the devolved unit Abdullahi Ganduje, Channels TV reported that a huge portion of the money – Naira 865 million – went to scholarship allowances and to covering “logistics”.

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Honor and invest in Ukraine through scholarships (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In the spring of 2022, at least 15 colleges and universities , including my own, Alfred University, jointly awarded honorary degrees during our commencement exercises. The higher education institutions conferring honorary degrees on Zelensky committed to assisting Ukraine in other ways.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a professor, she takes a social movements approach to education. When she ended her 15 years as director of BCRW in 2015, the college devoted a day-long colloquium to celebrate her contributions to feminist scholarship and research. The participating scholars wrote Paradoxes collaboratively. “We

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Army Veteran and Doctoral Student Named Inaugural Winner of the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship, The Flash Today reported. The 6888th – the only all-female unit in Army history – was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in March 2022. Burkett holds three degrees, including a degree in healthcare administration and public administration with an emphasis on human resources.

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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. Too much of our current higher education system is still predicated on memorisation, a relic of a pre-digital era.

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Taliban stops Afghan women leaving to study

The PIE News

The Taliban has banned at least 60 Afghan women from travelling to Dubai to take up a scholarship at the University of Dubai. This is the latest in a string of actions by the Taliban stopping women and girls from accessing education, including barring women from attending university in 2022.

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Int’l education marks World Refugee Day

The PIE News

As the world marked World Refugee Day on June 20, organisations across the sector reflected on their role in providing equitable access to higher education. Access to education is a fundamental human right. He said that in his home country, his education was limited to textbooks and “dry lectures”.