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* Paul Weiss offers professional attire stipend to vacation scheme interns. It would be better if they’d hired Nina Garcia and the Twitter Workwear Guy as consultants but this is a start. [LegalCheek] * For the Civil Procedure buffs, hot minimum contacts precedent just dropped. [Reuters] * Law professor who admits to sleeping with 1Ls…
Regular readers know that I am interested in the criminal prosecution of Sam Bankman-Fried, who is currently serving 25 years in federal prison for fraudulent activity related to his operation of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. I reviewed Michael Lewis’s book about Bankman-Fried and have posted several times about the case. There are now several new…
The sticker price to attend Hartwick College, a private nonprofit in New York, starting with the 2025-26 academic year. Officials said they’re slashing the institution’s listed tuition and fees — which were projected to rise to $59,359 that year — to bring more transparency to the student experience. #week #numbers #Academic #publishers #hit #antitrust #lawsuit
On Friday September 20, the Committee made public the individual indicative caps for all providers types. Until now, many private and VET providers had preferred to keep private their indicative numbers for 2025 under the government’s proposed National Planning Level. A download of the documents containing the indicative caps for VET providers can be found…
Dive Brief: Advocacy group National Student Legal Defense Network sued the University of Maryland Global Campus on Tuesday over an “incentivized, enrollment-based” pay agreement with Coursera for marketing, curriculum development and other services on select degree programs. Filed in Washington, D.C. Superior Court, the complaint alleges that UMGC violated the district’s consumer protection laws by…
Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands were found to have the largest share of English-taught programs outside the main four study destinations in a report by Studyportals and the British Council, published on September 18. While the UK, US, Canada and Australia provide the most English-taught programs (ETPs), as of June 2024, 43% of on-campus…
Introduce yourself in three words or phrases. Curious data-driven architect! What do you like most about your job? I love that we’re solving real-world challenges with technological breakthroughs that often feel almost unreal to our customers. When they see a demo of our product or organise testing with EnglishScore for the first time, there’s always…
Starting this month (September 2024), the partnership will provide a range of business, law and technology courses to students across major cities in Pakistan, including Islamabad, Faisalabad and Lahore. Deputy dean of partnerships at the University of Essex David Briggs said: “We are extremely excited to launch this partnership to respond to the need for…
Several years ago a student who was not doing well in my class reached out to me regarding some issues that they were having with completing and getting their assignments in on time. In my correspondence with the student, I remember giving them some direction on where they could go within the institution to receive…