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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Swift, 30, has sold more than 50 million albums and 150 million singles worldwide Singer Taylor Swift has donated £23,000 to a London-based student struggling to raise the funds to take up a maths course at the University of Warwick.Vitoria Mario’s online fundraising page details how she has lived…

Google Has a Plan To Disrupt the College Degree (inc.com) Posted by BeauHD on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:00AM from the future-of-education-and-work dept. schwit1 shares a report from Inc: Google recently made a huge announcement that could change the future of work and higher education: It’s launching a selection of professional courses that teach candidates…

Arthur C. Brooks 6:00 AM ET Jan Buchczik“How to Build a Life” is a biweekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness.I magine a young man, a senior in high school. His academic performance has never been over the top, but he’s done well enough. Among his classmates, the assumption is that…

CORNELL UNIVERSITY gave Jonathan Quinn a scholarship in 1972 that covered a little over half his $3,000 tuition at the time. It wasn’t enough to keep him in school. “I ran out of money and couldn’t see racking up more loans when I was totally dissatisfied,” says Quinn, an engineering major. He dropped out in…