Students

A student is primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution and who is under learning with goals of acquiring knowledge, developing professions and achieving easy employment at a particular field. In the broader sense, a student is anyone who applies themselves to the intensive intellectual engagement with some matter necessary to master it as part of some practical affair in which such mastery is basic or decisive. In the United Kingdom and most commonwealth countries, the term "student" denotes those enrolled in secondary schools and higher (e.g., college or university); those enrolled in primary/elementary schools are …

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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 9 December 2023 English

At COP28, the Green Jobs for Youth Pact is putting young people front and center of the green transformation. A collaborative effort by the International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations …

commitments to nurture eco-consciousness among students. Join us to champion environmental education. prep for the future! Geared towards university students, this event offers immersive experiences at interactive


WRI: World Resources Institute · 6 December 2023 English

This report systematizes the implementation process, challenges, learnings, and results of complete street interventions in eight cities from different regions of Brazil.

knowledge of cost-benefits of interventions. and students can combine their knowledge of urban planning disorganized traffic at the time of entry and exit of students one of the main commercial routes downtown, with 91% approval of the people interviewed, and students using the spaces that were created accepting transformation process. In addition, the involvement of students and people working in the development of products 2018, to about 20 students per semester. A lecture on complete streets was the students’ first contact


CUF: Center for an Urban Future · 5 December 2023 English

For more than a decade, the Center has urged state policymakers to expand TAP to more part-time students and we applaud the state for making this a reality. [...] Other recent enhancements are also helping more part-time students is poised to help thousands of “nontraditional” students afford a college credential in New York, more can be done to support these students—including older students, student-parents

approximately two-thirds of all in-state undergraduate students attend CUNY tuition-free. In many ways, TAP is of part-time TAP eligibility to undergraduate students and those enrolled in non-degree workforce training Future has shown, nearly 67,000 undergraduate students at CUNY attend school on a part-time basis—amounting CUNY’s community college students and more than one-third of all CUNY students. For more than a decade state policymakers to expand TAP to more part-time students and we applaud the state for making this a reality


CUF: Center for an Urban Future · 2 December 2023 English

Supercharging CUNY Reconnect to Support Returning Students Testimony - November 2023 Supercharging CUNY Reconnect to Support Returning Students In this testimony before the NYC Council Committee on Higher

Returning Students Testimony - November 2023 Supercharging CUNY Reconnect to Support Returning Students In this program to help ensure that far more returning students succeed the second time around in postsecondary than 26,000 students have reenrolled in CUNY thanks to Reconnect. The majority of these students are Black and most are over the age of 24. Among those students who participated in the first cohort of CUNY Reconnect with some college but no degree. For every 500 students who earn bachelor’s degrees thanks to CUNY Reconnect


Bicycle Network · 1 December 2023 English

WHAT’S ON IN PORT ALBERT? IN TOWN Port Albert Fish & Chip Co A trip to Port Albert wouldn’t be complete without sampling some local seafood while overlooking the boats …

dreamt up St Michael’s students (some pictured) to bring First Nations students on the Great Vic Bike


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 1 December 2023 English

Maximizing the benefits of artificial intelligence and managing the risks will require innovative policies with global reach Beginning in the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution ushered in a series of …

value of a liberal arts education—which teaches students to think about big questions facing humanity


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 1 December 2023 English

Bob Simison profiles Harvard’s Lawrence F. Katz, whose research changed economists’ understanding of economic disparity Like the rest of us, Harvard labor economist Lawrence F. Katz has been thinking about …

is one of Katz’s more than 200 former doctoral students. They include two winners of the John Bates Clark poorer schools at a disadvantage com- pared with students in richer, air-con- ditioned schools. Those encounters


ACAPS · 1 December 2023 English

• Out of the 23 decrees and directives, 6 directly affected the modalities of the humanitarian response in the education and health sectors. [...] • Fourteen of the decrees and …

education (ACAPS 21/04/2023). allowing new female students to enrol (TOLOnews X 19/07/2023). Between April–October 13/10/2023). • instruction for female private university students enrolled in their last semester to be In April


Amnesty International · 1 December 2023 English

Older people, who make up one-fourth of Ukraine’s population, have faced unique violations of their human rights since Russia’s full-scale invasion. Disproportionately among those killed or injured during the conflict, …

changes to become more accessible in the future to students or others with disabilities. Given that more than responsibilities: many universities were still hosting students in addition to displaced persons, and many schoolteachers must be provided online. Regardless of whether students are studying in-person or remotely, the law requires


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 1 December 2023 English

India is on the brink of a transformation that could change its economic and social future Before the end of this decade, more Indians will use AI every day than …

technologies are uniquely positioned to help students learn in their native languages, as well as learn English. AI’s applications are useful not only for students; they extend to teachers, who are often overwhelmed government and start-ups, the roles of teachers and students evolve, and they form dynamic partnerships focused


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