Stanford, Columbia, Penn, Mount Sinai medical schools withdraw … – Higher Ed Dive

Let Higher Ed Dive’s free newsletter keep you informed, straight from your inbox. Yale and Harvard law schools’ decisions in November to step away from the rankings shook higher education, which has historically considered the lists a flawed but seemingly indelible aspect of admissions and marketing.First published in 1983, the U.S. News rankings have since … Read more

FTX’s failure has defined a long, contagious crypto winter – The Verge

Filed under:By Verge StaffOn January 1st of 2022, one Bitcoin would cost you about $46,000. By November 8th, that same coin went for about $18,500. And that’s when the year’s most dramatic crypto story was just starting: the collapse of the FTX exchange, which brought yet another round of existential threats to the crypto industry … Read more

Australia’s annual inflation hits 7.8% driven partly by surging electricity prices – The Guardian

CPI rose by 1.9% in the December quarter due to increasing electricity prices and the cost of holiday travel and accommodationInflation in Australia reached 7.8% in the year to December, in what economists and the federal government hope will be the peak for runaway prices.The consumer price index rose by 1.9% in the December quarter, … Read more

Bitcoin Surges Past $20K, Erasing Post-FTX Losses – Decrypt

SearchThe cryptocurrency market continued its rally on Friday as Bitcoin hit a high of just over $20,000 per coin.Bitcoin hasn’t been priced this high since early November, according to data from CoinGecko, before the spectacular collapse of FTX.The broader crypto market is also showing signs of life as the total market capitalization of the industry … Read more

What Does the Debt-Ceiling Fight Mean to You? – Rutgers University

DateJanuary 23, 2023Media ContactMegan Schumann848-445-1907megan.schumann@rutgers.eduHitting the debt ceiling – how much money the federal government can borrow to pay its bills – could lead to economic catastrophe if the situation isn’t handled appropriately, said John Longo, a professor of professional practice at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick.The U.S. government is borrowing up … Read more

Celebrities call on UK banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coalfields – The Guardian

Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance add their voices to Richard Curtis’s Make My Money Matter campaignFamous names including Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance have joined activists and businesses in calling on the UK’s big five banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coal expansion.Make My Money Matter, a campaign set … Read more

Cricket.com.au's unofficial Team of the Tournament – cricket.com.au

KFC BBL|12We've put our selectors' hats on to pick an unofficial best XI from BBL|12, a thrilling tournament featuring plenty of outstanding individual performances and record-breaking feats Jack Paynter 26 January 2023, 12:55 PM AEST@jackpaynAfter 56 jam-packed regular season games, the cricket.com.au editorial team has picked the best XI players of BBL|12 to make an … Read more

Gunvatta se Atmanirbharta: The quality of India's skill development program will be key to India's future s – News18

By: Studio18 DeskStudio18Last Updated: January 18, 2023, 12:13 ISTMumbai, India At just 75 years of independence and with a population median age of 26, we are a young country in every sense of the phrase. What’s more, with an average 1% growth rate, our population is getting younger by the year. We have one of … Read more

Despite cybersecurity being top of mind for the C-suite, data privacy is lagging, a new report finds – Fortune

Good morning,As tech transformations—for example a business unit built around A.I. or a new app geared toward personalized customer experience—have picked up steam in recent years, so have cyber risks and data privacy concerns.But when organizations look internally for risk mitigation and compliance with data privacy laws, there’s a lack of qualified people to do … Read more

2022: A year in international education – The PIE News

Despite a tumultuous year that included the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, record levels of global inflation and increased pressure on the climate – the international education sector has been extremely buoyant with millions of students choosing to study abroad in 2022.As the English language sector continues to recover, … Read more