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BEIJING (Reuters) – As COVID-19 cases in China sink to new lows, the world’s largest population of university students is heading back to campus in a migration defined by lockdowns, patriotic education and cutting-edge surveillance equipment.  People pass facial recognition camera-controlled gates to enter Peking University as Chinese students gradually return to their campuses after…

Apple is bringing coding centers to 10 historically Black colleges and universities. Apple Apple has announced extending its education partnerships, adding 10 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to its Community Education Initiative. The schools will have coding centers to become “technology hubs” for their regions, Apple said Thursday. There, people can learn coding and…

The fall semester has yet to begin, but student athletes training for the season can already be found on college campuses across the U.S. And so can COVID-19. Since the start of July there have been at least two outbreaks among student athletes, coaches, and staff—with 37 infected at the University of North Carolina (UNC)…

Jobs in Cannabis are still “essential” and include horticulture, processing, testing, and sales. … [+] Here: Denver, CO – Jan 13: Michael McGraw, production manager, wearing protective clothing and hair and face netting, shows off the perfect leaf of a marijuana plant while he works in the flowering room at the LivWell Enlightened Health cultivation…

Harvard University is the best college in the US. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Education research firm Quacquarelli Symonds shared its first-ever ranking of the best colleges and universities in the United States with Business Insider.The research firm looked at four categories to create an overall index score for 300 universities.At the top of the list was…