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JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has made strides in increasing access to higher education.  This can be attributed to efforts by the government, businesses, and civil society. Students from historically marginalised backgrounds are enrolling in universities more than ever before. Despite this, graduation rates are still low. Only 29.9% of students who started university in 2016

Science & Nature If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs...

Gold benefits from a weaker Greenback amid thin liquidity on US Independence Day. Tariff uncertainty and Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' lift demand for safe-haven bullion. XAU/USD whipsaws between key moving averages as the price hovers above $3,330. Gold (XAU/USD) is trading higher on Friday as news about United States (US) President Donald Trump’s passage of

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has accepted the courtesy resignation of Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Chairman Prospero De Vera III, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin announced on Thursday. Taking over his post is CHEd commissioner Shirley Agrupis. "As far as I know, although this is not the official reason. CHEd chair[man] De Vera

More than one in seven adults reported carrying medical debt in 2023, and of these, one in three forwent mental health care in the subsequent year, according to a research letter published online April 18 in JAMA Health Forum. Kyle J. Moon, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues

XRP rose 5% following a strong week for closely-related Ripple Labs, which bagged a payments license in the UAE and, per sources, is said to be on track for a close of its long-running court case against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Updated Mar 15, 2025, 12:05 p.m. Published Mar 15, 2025, 12:05 p.m. Solana’s SOL

It’s late February, and I’m still knee-deep in tax season. I’ve spent hours collecting and organizing my family’s W-2s, our 1098 mortgage documents, our 1095-B health coverage forms, and an assortment of other tax documents labeled with seemingly random numbers and letters. Hopefully, I can get everything sorted out by early March and finally wrap

Thursday 13 February, 2025 Demand for higher level apprenticeships grew significantly across the science sector over a five-year period – to almost one-fifth of starts – demonstrating how employers value using them to upskill their workforce. New research published today by Cogent Skills, on behalf of the Science Industry Partnership (SIP...