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In Venezuela, university students and NGOs designed election-monitoring systems to make potential fraud by the government easier to detect.
But by the time I was arrested in 1980, as a university student in Aleppo, the future my parents once envisioned had begun to vanish.
If the British public truly opposes immigration, they are probably referring to non-EU immigration, not the arrival of, say, Italian university graduates.
Their results will mean the difference between a coveted university spot and a life of second-class citizenry in a country with almost no social mobility.
While I hungered for an education - and even enrolled at university - I remained valuable as a soldier.
They blame Pakistan for the recent grisly attacks in their respective capitals, Kabul and Dhaka, in which a university and a café were among the targets.
During this period, the portfolio has grown from just over $1 billion to $18 billion – an average return of more than 16% a year, which appears to be the highest of any major university.
He has done more for the university than any president, or anyone else.
In a university, ideas count more than money, but $18 billion dollars can create an environment for many new ideas.
Moreover, the true believers cite America’s better-funded and hyper-competitive university system, which sucks in a disproportionate share of the world’s top students and researchers.
The competition is fierce to attract the project, and usually involves tax breaks, commitments on infrastructure, and even promises about the engineering curriculum in the local university.
After graduating from university, Mrs. Watanabe quit her job when she married Mr. Watanabe (who worked in the same office), became a housewife, and raised one daughter.
Times are different for her daughter, Ms. Watanabe, who majored in economics at a famous university and was hired by a well-known trading firm.
Those with a university education left to work in either the West Bank or the Gulf States, while Gaza’s armed groups became a magnet for most young people – the only job they understood and which gave them power.
Imagine if, after 1993, $20 billion of Western aid had been spent sending 150,000 Russian students abroad to university.
Despite major initiatives, such as the Platform for Education in Emergencies Response (PEER), aimed at linking young people to higher-education courses, thousands of qualified young people have been unable to secure college and university places.
Proud Germany, the inventor of the modern university system as most of the world currently knows it, now sees its students ranked at the bottom in tests of knowledge and competence.
Additional private pensions in Germany, rising charges for healthcare everywhere, and "top-up fees" for university students in the United Kingdom have become hot political issues bedevilling governments almost everywhere.
In the United Kingdom, where this did not happen in the 1970s and 1980s, every university place could have been filled with a Continental European trying to escape declining institutions at home.
Now, however, the miseries of expanding the number of university students without adequate public finance have invaded Britain as well.
The American university system is not a "two-tier" or "two-class" system but one of almost infinite variety.
In the United States, a recent study by two university professors showed that more than 25% of the companies reviewed had manipulated the dates of stock-option allowances to increase the profits of the beneficiaries.
BDS activists have picketed Jewish-owned businesses – from single shops in Glasgow to the retail giant Marks & Spencer – while making many university campuses increasingly uncomfortable for Jewish students.
In 2010, 29% of immigrants to the OECD had university degrees.
Attahiru Jega, a university teacher and chairman of the INEC from August 2010, overhauled a sclerotic and corrupt election machinery, put in place a new and credible voting register, and retrained and deployed his staff to 120,000 polling stations in a vast country – all in six months.
Two generations ago, only a small minority of the daughters of the elite received a university education.
Dludlu has been playing since the age of 10, and currently plies her trade at Tuks FC in Pretoria, where she is also studying at university.
Military rule and putsches stemming from factional infighting among generals were the norm until the early 1970’s, when university students overthrew a military dictatorship and opened up democratic space.
Affluent cities, where university graduates concentrate, tend to vote for internationally-minded, often center-left candidates, while lower middle-class and working-class districts tend to vote for trade-adverse candidates, often from the nationalist right.
As Enrico Moretti of the University of California at Berkeley emphasized in his book The New Geography of Jobs, the salience of this new divide is unmistakable: university graduates account for half of the total population in the most affluent US metropolitan areas, but are four times less numerous in worse-off areas.
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