Articles for Graduate Students

Shrinking graduate applications reflect a market shift
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Shrinking graduate applications reflect a market shift

China Daily  

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY In recent years, China has expanded graduate school admissions to cultivate talent in key sectors. From an employment perspective, the job market has become more diversified, and many students feel that academic qualifications are not the only path to career success. Additionally, the popularity of government exams, particularly the national civil servant exams, has drawn more undergraduates, …

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Open Doors 2024: US welcomes 1.1 million international students, India leads
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Open Doors 2024: US welcomes 1.1 million international students, India leads

India Today  

The number of international students at U.S. colleges and universities reached a record high of over 1.1 million in the 2023-2024 academic year, marking a 7 percent rise compared to the previous year. The latest findings from the Open Doors 2024 Report on International Educational Exchange, published by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and …

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Graduate Students Are Unionizing In Massive Numbers
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Graduate Students Are Unionizing In Massive Numbers

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A wave of labor organizing has been washing through U.S. universities as graduate students and other workers form new unions on campus. Last year, more than 3,000 student-workers at Cornell University joined the United Electrical Workers, while 1,600 at Emory University joined Workers United, the same union that now represents thousands of Starbucks baristas. “The collegiate organizing …

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U.K. PM Rishi Sunak faces revolt over plans to scrap Graduate Route visa: Report
7 months, 3 weeks ago

U.K. PM Rishi Sunak faces revolt over plans to scrap Graduate Route visa: Report

The Hindu  

“Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering restrictions to the U.K.’s post-study visa which allows graduates to stay on and work for up to two years after their degree course as part of efforts to curb soaring legal migration figures despite strong opposition from some of his Ministers,” a report claimed on May 19. According to ‘The Observer’ newspaper, Mr. Sunak …

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US university ties to weapons contractors under scrutiny amid war in Gaza
7 months, 4 weeks ago

US university ties to weapons contractors under scrutiny amid war in Gaza

Al Jazeera  

Activists are calling attention to historical ties between universities and defence contractors linked to Israel’s war. On US college campuses, though, the pushback is especially fierce, as students question their universities’ relationships with weapons manufacturers and other companies with ties to Israel’s military. “We are following the courageous students before us who dared to challenge their school’s investments in war.” …

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Democratic politics and higher education: Why liberal arguments about college aren’t going to work in 2024.
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Democratic politics and higher education: Why liberal arguments about college aren’t going to work in 2024.

Slate  

Nearly a third of young people, according to polling done last year, now say that getting a college education is less important than it was 20 years ago. Instead, he boasted of having created tens of thousands of good-paying jobs that don’t require college degrees, and proclaimed that “unions built the middle class.” It’s a decidedly old message, but one …

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Top 10 engineering schools in US in 2023 as per this global ranking
1 year, 4 months ago

Top 10 engineering schools in US in 2023 as per this global ranking

Hindustan Times  

U.S. News & World Report has released a list of best engineering colleges in US in 2023. Rank 3: University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley offers various types of engineering courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Rank 5: Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University offers 21 …

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5,000 Under Graduate students selected for Reliance Foundation Scholarships 2022-23
1 year, 7 months ago

5,000 Under Graduate students selected for Reliance Foundation Scholarships 2022-23

India TV News  

Reliance Foundation has taken the initiative to provide scholarships to five-year undergraduate students on the basis of aptitude tests, class 12th marks, and other eligibility criteria. According to merit, Five thousand first-year undergraduate students from 27 states and four Union Territories have been selected for the Reliance Foundation Undergraduate Scholarships 2022-23. We congratulate every selected scholar and we are confident …

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To afford historic labor contract, UC considers cutting TAs, graduate student admissions
1 year, 11 months ago

To afford historic labor contract, UC considers cutting TAs, graduate student admissions

LA Times  

University of California academic workers won major wage gains following a six-week strike but campuses but scrambling to find ways to pay for them. “The state of California needs more highly trained people, and we’re going in the opposite direction,” said Susannah Scott, a UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor and chair of her campus Academic Senate. The result of …

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UC strike causes union organizing surge for academic workers
2 years ago

UC strike causes union organizing surge for academic workers

LA Times  

Piril Nergis is a doctoral student at USC but joined picket lines at UCLA to support the recent strike of University of California academic workers. And at the Rand Corp.’s graduate school in Santa Monica, David DeSmet said he and fellow doctoral students were inspired to organize with the United Auto Workers after reading about UC graduate student researchers forming …

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After five-week strike, UC and graduate student workers reach tentative agreement
2 years ago

After five-week strike, UC and graduate student workers reach tentative agreement

LA Times  

In a major breakthrough in the five-week strike that shut down classes and unleashed grading turmoil, the University of California and the union leadership representing 36,000 graduate student workers reached a tentative labor agreement Friday that would boost their pay and improve benefits. The tentative agreement would give graduate student workers in two United Auto Workers bargaining units an increase …

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Inter, graduate students are new HIV / AIDS risk groups in AP
2 years, 1 month ago

Inter, graduate students are new HIV / AIDS risk groups in AP

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The good news for Andhra Pradesh is HIV/AIDS appears to be on a declining trend, being 0.87 per cent at present within general public from 6.74 per cent in 2010–2011, apart from 0.05 per cent antenatal cases presently from 0.46 per cent some 12 years ago. The bad news is that youngsters pursuing intermediate and graduation in several educational …

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Fears rise that UC strike could have long-lasting consequences on vaunted research, teaching
2 years, 1 month ago

Fears rise that UC strike could have long-lasting consequences on vaunted research, teaching

LA Times  

As the nation’s largest ever strike of higher-education academic workers enters its third week Monday, with the crunch time of final exams just days away, fears are rising over long-lasting and unintended consequences to the University of California’s core missions of teaching and research. Faculty in particular are worried that higher labor costs to meet the salary demands of the …

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UC officials call for mediator as strike by 48,000 academic workers causes systemwide disruptions
2 years, 1 month ago

UC officials call for mediator as strike by 48,000 academic workers causes systemwide disruptions

LA Times  

The UC strike is calling for better pay and benefits for teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, tutors and fellows. “UAW members at UC remain on strike, and we will be walking picket lines tomorrow,” Rafael Jaime, president of United Auto Workers Local 2865, which represents 19,000 of the 48,000 workers, said Monday night. The university’s current proposal “would …

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Nearly 48,000 UC graduate students poised to shut down many classes, labs and research with strike
2 years, 2 months ago

Nearly 48,000 UC graduate students poised to shut down many classes, labs and research with strike

LA Times  

Hundreds of UAW-represented workers at the University of California and their supporters marched in Westwood in April to protest wages and working conditions. In what would be the nation’s largest strike of academic workers, four UAW bargaining units representing teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, academic and graduate student researchers, tutors, fellows and others are set to picket from 8 a.m. at …

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UC could grow by 33,000 California students, equivalent of new campus, to meet surging demand
2 years, 5 months ago

UC could grow by 33,000 California students, equivalent of new campus, to meet surging demand

LA Times  

The University of California is aiming to increase seats for in-state students by as many as 33,000 by 2030. At least one state legislator said he’s all in on the higher target: Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, chair of an Assembly subcommittee on education finance who has long pushed UC to increase seats for California students. McCarty said he and his legislative …

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Postgraduate education expanded in past decade
2 years, 6 months ago

Postgraduate education expanded in past decade

China Daily  

China has not only educated more postgraduate students in the past decade than ever before, but has also improved the quality of teaching and research programs, training more capable graduates to better serve national development needs. Majors required to boost national economic and social development have also been created, including cyberspace security, integrated circuit science and engineering, and traditional Chinese …

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IGNOU final-year students demand online exams, express concerns over safety, travel amid Covid
3 years, 5 months ago

IGNOU final-year students demand online exams, express concerns over safety, travel amid Covid

India TV News  

Safety and travel amid the coronavirus pandemic figured among the topmost concerns raised by final year students of the Indira Gandhi National Open University. The university had on July 3 announced that the Term-end examination June 2021 will be conducted August 3 onward for the final year students of Under Graduate and Post Graduate programmes along with their backlogs, if …

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教育部印发《研究生导师指导行为准则》 明确“十不得”
4 years, 1 month ago

教育部印发《研究生导师指导行为准则》 明确“十不得”

China Daily  

教育部日前印发《研究生导师指导行为准则》，明确提出“十不得”，为导师指导行为划定基本底线。 SHI YU/CHINA DAILY Supervisors shoulder the primary responsibility in cultivating postgraduate students and the important task of nurturing high-end and innovative talent, the Ministry of Education said. 教育部指出，研究生导师是研究生培养的第一责任人，肩负着为国家培养高层次创新人才的重要使命。 【单词讲解】 这里的supervisor就是在研究生阶段对学生提供选题指导、学术专业培养、论文指导等专业支持的“导师”；在职场，这个词多用来指某个部门或机构的“主管”。在教育领域，还有几个跟老师相关的词，这里也简单介绍一下：tutor多指“一对一指导教师”，我们常说的“家教”就可以用这个词表示；mentor一般也翻译为“导师、顾问”，不过这个词更强调“师徒传承”这层意思，除了专业方面的指导以外，也会在精神成长方面有引领作用，所以有时候也会称为“人生导师”。 准则提出的“十不得”要求为： should not present speeches or actions that go against the Party's theories and policies, violate State laws and regulations, damage the image of the Party and the State, …

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[Breaking] 'Cancellation Of Exams Not In Students' Interests': UGC Opposes Delhi & Maharashtra Govts Stand Of Not Conducting Final Year Exams
4 years, 4 months ago

[Breaking] 'Cancellation Of Exams Not In Students' Interests': UGC Opposes Delhi & Maharashtra Govts Stand Of Not Conducting Final Year Exams

Live Law  

The University Grants Commission has filed its affidavit in the Supreme Court, rebutting the opposing stand of the Maharashtra & DelhiGovernments cancelling final year examinations.The autonomous body has contended that to cancel the final year / terminal semester examinations and graduate students using "alternative assessment measures" is in contravention of the UGC's Guidelines. The UGC has filed an affidavit in …

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Donald Trump breaks US ties with WHO, moves to end Hong Kong privileges as coronavirus tensions with China surge
4 years, 7 months ago

Donald Trump breaks US ties with WHO, moves to end Hong Kong privileges as coronavirus tensions with China surge

ABC  

US President Donald Trump says he is "terminating" the relationship between the United States and the World Health Organization, which he says is heavily influenced by China. Key points: In a letter, Mr Trump had given the WHO 30 days to commit to reforms letter, Mr Trump had given the WHO 30 days to commit to reforms He says the …

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UC Santa Cruz fires 54 graduate student workers striking for higher pay
4 years, 10 months ago

UC Santa Cruz fires 54 graduate student workers striking for higher pay

LA Times  

UC Santa Cruz fired 54 graduate student workers who were on strike demanding higher pay to afford the area’s high cost of living. Housing is expensive in Santa Cruz, and student workers have a difficult time living on the typical stipend of $2,400 a month before taxes, said Veronica Hamilton, vice president of UC Santa Cruz’s graduate student association and …

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Graduate students do real work. Let us unionize.
5 years, 1 month ago

Graduate students do real work. Let us unionize.

Salon  

In late September, the National Labor Relations Board proposed a ruling that will fundamentally change how graduate students can interact with their universities. I’m a graduate student in the biology department at New York University, and like many other graduate students at private and public research universities, I perform critical roles for the benefit of my university. But the ruling’s …

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Big Chill With China Takes Its Toll On Flow Of Money, People And Ideas
5 years, 5 months ago

Big Chill With China Takes Its Toll On Flow Of Money, People And Ideas

NPR  

Big Chill With China Takes Its Toll On Flow Of Money, People And Ideas Enlarge this image toggle caption Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images In 1978, President Jimmy Carter received a late-night call from Beijing. Scrutiny has fallen most heavily on nontraditional targets such as Chinese graduate students and researchers — a "whole of society" approach advocated by the …

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