chinese economy News
Universities earn record amount from working with industry - Thursday, July 10, 2008
Universities saw a dramatic rise in earnings from working with industry last year, reaching a record total of £2.6bn.
That represents a 17% increase in business funding compared with...
No summer jobs available for Indian students in America - Saturday, July 05, 2008
WASHINGTON: Indian grad students studying in the US are finding the summer hard.
Those who chose not to go back to India for the summer break, hoping to get summer jobs, are finding...
Harvard study predicts long return to healthy housing market - Wednesday, June 25, 2008
A new study from Harvard University predicts housing woes will continue as the economy wavers from the sharp drop in home building, credit and stock market turmoil, and a slowdown in...
Congress passes bill to protect student loans - Sunday, September 21, 2008
Although it won’t affect UF students, some college students in Florida who worry about securing federal student loans may be able to rest easy for at least another year.
A bill that...
College Students Face Fierce Competition for Summer Jobs - Sunday, May 17, 2009
Roughly 100 people crammed into a small Manhattan restaurant, hoping to be hired to one of the two available job positions
With roughly a hundred people crammed into Marcello Assante's...
Student startups trade sleep for possibility - Sunday, February 22, 2009
Stanford senior Stephen Sebro hasn't been getting much sleep. His coursework is intense, graduation is looming and then there's the matter of launching a startup from his dorm room.
The...
Student Housing Faces Pressure To Make Grade As Econ Weakens - Thursday, October 30, 2008
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Student housing, previously a bright spot in the battered real estate investment trust sector, may be falling off the dean's list as the economy weakens.
The...
Recalled milk sold to students in China: state media - Thursday, October 16, 2008
Dairy products that were recalled in southern China to be tested for the deadly chemical melamine were instead dumped at universities and sold to students at a discount, state media...
Student debt levels portend rising loan default rates - Monday, December 01, 2008
Not long ago, Dan Brown and his roommate headed from San Francisco to Las Vegas. They were aiming to win big so they could pay off their student loans.
"If you don't try, you can't...
Budget cuts would hurt instruction at Kansas universities, officials say - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Cutting budgets at Kansas’ six universities by as much as 7 percent by 2010 would mean losing jobs, classes, services and programs at some of the schools, officials said Tuesday.
University...
