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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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Economics is the study of how people make decisions, how we choose where to study and work, how we promote fairness in society and how our lives are shaped by market institutions and government policies,” says Dr Emil Temnyalov, an economist at the University of Technology Sydney.

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Let’s Change Financial Aid to Help Students Who Pay Their Own Way Through College

ED Surge

I took 14 AP classes, had significant achievements and leadership roles in seven clubs, scored a 35 on the ACT, and took college courses during the summer so that I could graduate with my associate degree. I frantically taught myself the basics of data analysis and started preparing to apply for jobs. So work I did.

Finance 257
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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

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The next step involves implementing schemes and programmes that can support people living in poverty and help them to achieve financial security. In rural communities, on the other hand, access to these basic needs can be harder to come by. Rural communities are often cut off from much of the money that moves around in the big cities.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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This type of fire is deliberately applied to a pre-determined area at the time, intensity and rate of spread required to achieve the desired management objectives, and occurs under a strict set of environmental conditions Fire suppression techniques — the various strategies for stopping a fire once it has started.

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Here Comes Another Trend in K-12 Science Education: Data Science

Chillax Science

And yet, they keep being pushed by large publishing companies, government agencies, schools, and even academic professors. Instead of following a predetermined curriculum, inquiry-based learning encourages students to develop their own questions, hypothesis, experiments, and conclusions based on their observations and data analysis.

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List of 75+ STEM Careers, Jobs & Occupations

STEM Sport

By providing students with access to a quality STEM curriculum, they will be better prepared for future courses and have the confidence needed to pursue STEM careers. They must consider many factors in their designs, from the costs and expected lifetime of a project to government regulations and potential environmental impacts.

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The importance of community for reducing social isolation

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If immigrants don’t speak enough English to get by, they will struggle to access resources and fully integrate into a new community in a new country.” This is commonly achieved by participant observation, in which anthropologists spend time with the community they are studying and take part in everyday activities.