Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138, Jungtinės Valstijos +1 617-495-1000 Harvard University, which celebrated its 375th anniversary in 2011, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Harvard University is devoted ..

Yale University

New Haven, CT 06520, Jungtinės Valstijos +1 203-432-4771, Yale University comprises three major academic components: Yale College (the undergraduate program), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the ...

University of Cambridge

The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of ...

Friday, April 25, 2014

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Facebook pareert Princeton onderzoek waarin gesteld wordt dat gebruik in 2015 met 80% afneemt


Grote ophef rondom een onderzoek van Universiteit Princeton gisteren, waarin gesteld werd dat Facebook tussen 2015 en 2017 ongeveer 80% van zijn gebruikers kwijt zal raken. “Grote onzin”, aldus het data science team van Facebook, dat het onderzoek vandaag finaal met de grond gelijk maakt.
princetonVolgens de Facebook medewerkers hebben de Princeton onderzoekers Facebook vergeleken met een ‘virus’ waarvan mensen op termijn zullen genezen. Ze gebruiken MySpace daarbij als uitgangspunt voor die theorie, zonder daarbij te vermelden dat het Facebook was die ‘het virus’ MySpace uiteindelijk de das om deed.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), privately controlled coeducational institution of higher learning famous for its scientific and technological training and research. It was chartered by the state of Massachusetts in 1861 and became a land-grant college in 1863. William Barton Rogers, MIT’s founder and first president, had worked for years to organize an institution of higher learning devoted entirely to scientific and technical training, but the outbreak of the American Civil War delayed the opening of the school until 1865, when 15 students enrolled for the first classes, held in

Birmingham Conservatoire

Birmingham Conservatoire is an international conservatoire and a major concert venue, its main platform is the Adrian Boult Hall. Before 1989, it was known as the School of Music theBirmingham and was one of the faculties of Birmingham City University, the only one of the nine conservatoires in the UK it was a university faculty. However, in 2008, as part of the reorganization of the powers became a part of the Faculty of Performance, Media and English (PME).




Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Oxford University launches project to help local public schools.

After centuries of building walls to prevent the " townies " out of the University of Oxford is to build some bridges through an innovative initiative to improve the public schools of the city.


The Dean of the University of Oxford - as the project is called its official launch on Tuesday - is the oldest university response to suggestions that he should do more for education funded by the state in its backyard.

While some universities - as Birmingham and UCL - have sponsored academies or free schools , Oxford has resisted pressure to do so , citing the damage that a school with college would imprimatur . The demand study would be colossal Oxford brand.

Instead , the university has embarked on an ambitious effort to raise the profile and the overall level of schools in the state sector of the city.

Teachers in secondary schools in the city will be the first to benefit directly , through links with the education department and scholarships offered professional development.

Katherine Ryan , director of the Matthew Arnold School in West Oxford, said the plan was part of a campaign to raise standards in local schools - and demonstrated that efforts to improve education in schools does not only come from the government center .

Universities in North Dakota.

1 North Dakota State University                 Fargo
2 University of North Dakota                     Grand Forks
3 Minot State University                            Minot
4 Dickinson State University                      Dickinson
5 University of Mary                                Bismarck
6 Valley City State University                    Valley City
7 Mayville State University                       Mayville
8 Trinity Bible College                             Ellendale
9 University of Jamestown                      Jamestown